Environment

Nations advance ocean protection, vow to defend seabed

By Agence France-Presse A global oceans summit wrapped up on June 13, with world leaders taking major steps toward marine protection and vowing a showdown when nations meet to negotiate rules for...

Toxic Thailand rivers pinned on Myanmar mines

By Agence France-Presse A sprawling new mine is gouged into the lush rolling hills of northeast Myanmar, where civil war has weakened the government's already feeble writ, and pollution levels are rising...

Greenland ice melted much faster than average in May heatwave: scientists

By Agence France-Presse Greenland's ice sheet melted 17 times faster than the past average during a May heatwave that also hit Iceland, the scientific network World Weather Attribution (WWA) said in a...

Nickel rush for stainless steel, EVs guts Indonesia tribe’s forest home

By Agence France-Presse Bokum, one of Indonesia's last isolated hunter-gatherers, has a simple message for the nickel miners threatening his lush jungle home: "This is our land." He belongs to the Hongana Manyawa...

Mt. Kanlaon erupts anew; Alert Level 3 raised

By Nanette Guadalquiver | Philippine News Agency The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) hoisted Alert Level 3 (magmatic unrest) over Mt. Kanlaon in Negros Island after its explosive eruption at...

Philippine Eagle chick hatched at new breeding sanctuary in Davao

By Che Palicte | Philippine News Agency A Philippine eagle chick hatched on Nov. 11 at the newly opened National Bird Breeding Sanctuary (NBBS) in Eden, Toril district, Davao City, marking the...

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