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President Barack Obama again sought to make the case to the American people for “dealing with the rapidly growing threat of climate change” last Wednesday, in a speech to the League of Conservation Voters. Right up front he said that his speech would not have “a lot of spin, just the facts.” When a politician says that, you know to expect the opposite.

Ganja State University held a meeting with students within the framework of the project Promotion of the Global Forest Viewing Platform in the Caucasus Region, Azernews reports.

Around 15 million people across the globe are working at artisanal and small-scale gold mining sites, nearly a third of them women and children. Instead of operating advanced equipment supplied by formal mining companies subject to government oversight, they use basic tools, bulldozers and unregulated chemicals. In many cases, miners vaporize mercury to separate gold […]

In a dance of yin and yang, Malcolm Wood operates eight posh Mott 32 Chinese restaurants dotted around the globe. He’s also a crusading environmentalist — a capitalist environmentalist. 

The U.K. accused Putin of attempting to misinform people about the effects of ammunition with depleted uranium.

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Scientists and environmentalists weigh risks, rewards and sovereignty issues of releasing particles into the air in a bid to cool the Earth

The illness is China's third involving H3N8 since 2022.

Though no new cases reported in the two outbreaks, groups released new details about the Marburg virus spread in each country.

Sudanese women in rural areas are bearing the brunt of a climate only getting worse. With rising temperatures now compounded by drought, a raft of UN initiatives have stepped in to mitigate these conditions and empower this marginalised demographic.