October 16, 2024

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ENVIRONMENT

Climate change

Alex Lucitante, of the indigenous Cofan ethnic group, in Lago Agrio, Sucumbos Province, Amazon region, Ecuador, on Jan. 15, 2023. This small community is famous for having driven mining companies out of their Amazonian territory in northern Ecuador.

ENVIRONMENT / Climate change

Oct 7, 2024

Amazon activist warns of 'critical situation' ahead of U.N. forum

By Hervé BAR

COP16 organizers have said Indigenous representatives will have input in national action plans

A bus is seen submerged in floodwaters in Yufu, Oita Prefecture, on Aug. 29 as Typhoon Shanshan dumps torrential rain across southern regions of Japan.

ENVIRONMENT / Climate change

Oct 3, 2024

How climate change affects Japan's typhoons

By Jessica Speed

The number of typhoons appears to be dropping, but the ones that do arrive are also becoming more violent.

People work on some insulating fabric covering a small part of the Rhone Glacier to prevent it from melting, near Gletsch, in the Swiss Alps, on Monday.

ENVIRONMENT / Climate change

Oct 2, 2024

Despite snowy winter, Swiss glaciers 'on track to disappear'

By Agnes Pedrero and Elodie LE MAOU

The glacier melt is having far-reaching impacts, with Switzerland and Italy having to adjust their mountain border and less water becoming available in the summer.

Cracked ground at a farm in Lincoln, U.K. Extreme weather worldwide is pushing up prices for food staples in ways that could eventually flow through to higher grocery bills.

ENVIRONMENT / Climate change

Oct 1, 2024

Rising food costs due to extreme weather likely to drive up grocery bills

By Keira Wright, Bernadette Toh and Charlotte Hughes-Morgan

One index of nine major food products has recorded a monthly gain of more than 7% — the most since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent markets soaring in early 2022.

Funafuti, Tuvalu’s most populous island, on Sept. 6

ENVIRONMENT / Climate change

Sep 26, 2024

Tuvalu fights to retain its maritime rights amid climate change inundation

By Kirsty Needham

Tuvalu's economic zone is rich in tuna, but few foreign jurisdictions that fish in the Pacific have supported efforts to safeguard its maritime boundaries.

A river gauge shows a level of just under 6 meters of the rising Oder River at Ratzdorf, Germany, on Sept. 24.

ENVIRONMENT / Climate change

Sep 25, 2024

Climate change made Europe’s floods worse and more likely, study shows

By Olivia Rudgard and Eamon Akil Farhat

Global warming is leading to more intense rainfall because a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture than a cooler one.

An area of Amazon rainforest deforested by illegal fire in the municipality of Labrea, Amazonas State, Brazil, on Aug. 20.

ENVIRONMENT / Climate change

Sep 24, 2024

Amazon forest loses area the size of Germany and France, fueling fires

The world's biggest jungle is crucial to the fight against climate change due to its ability to absorb planet-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Capsule hotels were created as a way to deal with the amount of overwork employees tend to do in Japan. Can't commute home? Then spend the night in an tiny, affordable sleeping space.

Japan wakes up to the market for a proper sleep

By Alex K.T. Martin

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