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Rhyolite Ridge (United States) (AFP) - Delicate pink buds sway in the desert breeze, pregnant with yellow pompoms whose explosion will carpet the dusty corner of Nevada that is the only place on Earth where they exist. Under their roots lie vast reserves of lithium, vital for the rechargeable electric car batteries that will reduce planet-heating pollution. But campaigners fear the extraction of the precious metal could destroy the flower's tiny habitat. "This mine is going to cause extinction," says Patrick Donnelly, an environmentalist who works at the Center for Biological Diversity, a non-...
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A second participant in a long-running German climate hunger strike campaign has abandoned the action. Activist Tin justified the decision with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's reaction - or lack thereof - to the severe flooding in the Saarland region in the west of the country, the campaign announced on Wednesday evening. Although it was clear that such storms were now more severe due to the climate crisis, the chancellor had not said a word about it, Tin said. "If Olaf Scholz is standing in the middle of the truth with rubber boots on and still can't say it, then I doubt that my death will pe...
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By Hieun SHIN Séoul (AFP) - Choi Hee-woo n'était encore qu'un embryon de vingt semaines quand il est devenu l'une des plus jeunes parties civiles au monde, en se joignant à une action en justice contre la Corée du Sud pour inaction climatique. Cette affaire, connue sous le nom de "Pivert et consorts contre la Corée du Sud", est la première de ce type dans le pays. Elle vise à prouver que les modestes objectifs climatiques de Séoul -- réduire les émissions de carbone de 40% d'ici à 2030 par rapport à 2018 -- constituent une violation des droits humains garantis par la Constitution. Choi He-woo ...
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A public prosecutor in Germany charged five members of the Last Generation climate activism group on suspicion of forming a criminal organization, according to an announcement on Tuesday. The charges are based on attacks on the PCK oil refinery in Schwedt in Brandenburg to the north-east of Berlin, the capital city's BER airport and the Barberini Museum in Potsdam just outside Berlin, between April 2022 and May 2023. The prosecutor for the town of Neuruppin in Brandenburg is also bringing charges for disrupting public businesses, coercion and damage to property. "The accusation concerns the ac...
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Washington (AFP) - Almost 20 percent of adults in the United States were financially impacted by natural disasters last year, the Federal Reserve said Tuesday, marking a nearly 50-percent rise from 2022. The Fed's annual report into the economic wellbeing of US households found that 19 percent of adults reported being financially affected by natural disasters or severe weather events like flooding and wildfires over the last 12 months. This was up sharply from 13 percent in 2022, with some of the biggest changes seen in the West of the country, where the percentage of people noting a financial...
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Man-made greenhouse gases constitute pollution of the oceans according to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, and states are obliged to take measures against such pollution, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea said in a landmark decision on Tuesday. The Hamburg-based UN court was asked to issue an opinion on the extent to which states are obliged by international law to take stronger measures in the fight against climate change. It was requested by a group of nine small island states in the Pacific and the Caribbean. The countries all see their existence threatened because s...
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By Nick Perry Paris (AFP) - Des chameliers du Sahara aux éleveurs nomades de la steppe mongole, les sociétés pastorales traditionnelles dépendent des grands espaces sauvages de la planète. Mais la dégradation de ces territoires est "gravement sous-estimée", alerte un rapport onusien publié mardi, avec des conséquences négatives à terme pour toute l'humanité. Grandes plaines, savanes, déserts, toundras, plateaux montagneux et autres prairies naturelles: de l'ordre de la moitié de toutes ces étendues, incluant les déserts et les zones humides, sont jugées dans un état dégradé, selon un rapport d...
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New Delhi (AFP) - Les autorités de Delhi ont ordonné la fermeture anticipée des écoles de la capitale indienne pour les vacances d'été, avec "effet immédiat", selon la presse locale mardi, en raison de températures torrides avec un pic de 47,8°Celsius atteint lundi. Le service météorologique indien a prévu une "vague de chaleur sévère" cette semaine. Lundi, il faisait 47,8°C à Najafgarh en banlieue de Delhi, soit la température la plus élevée de tout le pays. Les autorités de plusieurs États, dont l'Haryana, le Madhya Pradesh, le Punjab et le Rajasthan, dans le nord et centre du pays, ont égal...
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The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg will present a legal opinion on Tuesday on the extent to which states are obliged by international law to take stronger measures in the fight against climate change. The opinion was requested by a group of nine small island states in the Pacific and the Caribbean. The countries all see their existence threatened because sea levels are rising due to global warming. The core issue is whether states are obliged by international law, such as the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions more than is re...
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One of the climate protesters carrying out a hunger strike to demand the German government take action decided to start eating again due to acute danger to his life, he said on Saturday. Michael Winter, 61, said he that he had decided to take food following a 31-day hunger strike, after being hospitalized in Munich since Wednesday due to heart problems. Doctors say he has a life-threatening medical condition, Winter said. The other hunger strikers involved in the "Starving until you are honest" campaign are set to continue their protest, he said. Activist Wolfgang Metzeler-Kick began the strik...
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