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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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Houston (AFP) - The death toll from severe weather that lashed the Texas city of Houston has risen to seven, authorities said Friday. The three additional deaths came after Houston, the fourth-largest US city, was hit Thursday by heavy rain and winds up to 100 miles (160 kilometers) per hour, leaving downtown streets covered in glass from blown-out windows. Downed trees and power lines littered residential areas and the National Weather Service confirmed a tornado touched down in the suburb of Cypress. According to Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, the new victims included an 85-year-old woma...
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By Sara HUSSEIN Bangkok (AFP) - Sur son stand du salon de Bangkok, Jakkapat Yodnil interpelle les visiteurs pour leur vanter son stage de plongée dans les eaux cristallines de l'île paradisiaque de Koh Tao, dans le golfe de Thaïlande. Mais derrière les sourires se cache une vraie inquiétude chez le jeune homme de 25 ans: le dépérissement des coraux - appelé blanchissement - qui touche une grande partie du corail sur la planète et qui menace son gagne-pain et le monde marin qu'il adore. En raison des températures record des océans, le récif corallien tend à devenir d'un blanc fantomatique en ra...
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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden's government on Thursday announced a plan to end coal leases in the Powder River Basin, the nation's largest coal-producing region, drawing condemnation from the mining sector and praise from environmentalists. It comes as the world's second largest economy continues its shift away from coal, the most carbon-intensive fossil fuel, which has seen its output decline by more than 25 percent since 2017 as it struggles to compete with lower cost natural gas and with renewable energy. Biden has also targeted coal power plants with tough new rules requiring them...
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