by Our Correspondent in Colombo Updated Story 2: The Disaster Management Center (DMC) reports that the death toll from the severe weather gripping the country has risen to 47, with 37 of
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All eyes should be on the salsa dancing capital of the world, Cali, Colombia, where representatives of 190 nations are joined by a broad swath of global civil society and international Indigenous
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The transition from relying overwhelmingly on fossil fuels to using alternative low-carbon energy sources could be “unstoppable and exponential,” according to some experts. A boosterish attitude by many renewable energy advocates is
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Forests are essential for life on Earth. Because they produce oxygen and help regulate the balance of carbon dioxide and oxygen in the atmosphere, forests are known as the “lungs of the
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Wildlife crime is costly, not only for ecosystem conservation but also for local and national economies. Traditional methods of combating wildlife crime include regular patrols and camera traps, but these are also costly
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Australia must reach net-zero emissions by 2040 to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, the government’s top climate change agency has said. The Climate Change Authority (CCA) on Thursday released a
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The actual cause of the climate crisis is the anthropogenic emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere since the start of the industrial revolution. But the proximate cause—the underlying activity that sparked the climate crisis and
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