Paris (AFP) Nov 26, 2024
The tough-fought finance deal at UN climate negotiations was "imperfect", the Azerbaijan COP29 leadership has admitted, seeking to blame richer countries for an outcome slammed by poorer nations as insulting.
The contentious deal agreed on Sunday saw wealthy polluters agree to a $300 billion a year pledge to help developing countries reduce emissions and prepare for the increasingly danger
Washington (AFP) Nov 26, 2024
Fresh US tariffs on Canada and Mexico could raise costs of automobiles and building materials, analysts said Tuesday, after President-elect Donald Trump threatened to erect new trade barriers.
Similarly, further tariff hikes on China could add to consumer prices, as the United States is still reliant on the world's second biggest economy for goods like electronics and batteries.
What pro
Paris (AFP) Nov 26, 2024
French lawmakers on Tuesday overwhelmingly backed President Emmanuel Macron in rejecting a free-trade deal between the EU and South America's Mercosur bloc, saying it would hurt France's farmers.
By a vote of 484 to 70, the lower-house National Assembly approved the government's opposition to the deal "in its current form", in a non-binding vote.
"Under the current conditions" the draft
Washington (AFP) Nov 27, 2024
China and Mexico lashed out Tuesday after Donald Trump threatened to begin his presidency with an immediate trade war against the top three US economic partners.
Trump made his threat in social media posts, announcing huge import tariffs against neighbors Canada and Mexico and also rival China if they don't stop illegal immigration and drug smuggling into the United States.
China respond
Manila (AFP) Nov 27, 2024
Long one of the world's top sources of ocean plastic, the Philippines is hoping new legislation requiring big companies to pay for waste solutions will help clean up its act.
Last year, its "Extended Producer Responsibility" (EPR) statute came into force - the first in Southeast Asia to impose penalties on companies over plastic waste.
The experiment has shown both the promise and the p
Busan, South Korea (AFP) Nov 27, 2024
Negotiations on a first global treaty to curb plastic pollution are moving "very, very slowly", diplomats and observers told AFP on Wednesday, threatening the chances of reaching an agreement.
Delegates from nearly 200 countries are meeting in South Korea's Busan with the goal of reaching a deal by December 1, after two years of talks.
But the first full day of work in four "contact grou
Busan, South Korea (AFP) Nov 27, 2024
Environmental groups on Wednesday slammed the presence of dozens of petrochemical and fossil fuel industry lobbyists at UN talks on a plastic pollution treaty, accusing them of "obstruction" and "misinformation."
"It's a direct conflict of interest," said Delphine Levi Alvares, global petrochemical campaign coordinator at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL).
"Their inte
Miaodao Archipelago, China (AFP) Nov 27, 2024
As storm clouds gathered on a forgotten beach in China's Miaodao islands, artist Fu Junsheng picked his way through piles of plastic waste washed up along the shoreline, looking for inspiration.
China is the world's largest plastic producer, and the islands - a niche tourist destination - sit in the cross-stream of several highly developed eastern peninsulas.
Every squall brings fresh
Brasilia (AFP) Nov 27, 2024
Brazil's Supreme Court on Wednesday started examining four cases that turn on how far social media should be regulated, and what responsibilities platforms have in cracking down on illegal content.
The judicial review comes a month after the same court forced Elon Musk's X platform to obey rulings aimed at battling online disinformation.
That issue has taken on heat in recent days in Bra
United Nations, United States (AFP) Nov 27, 2024
Torn between the defenders of the world's seabeds and industrialists eager to exploit the vast, untapped resources of the deep, the international community faces a crucial year that could decide the future of mining in the high seas.
"It feels like a real crunch point," Louisa Casson of Greenpeace International told AFP.
"We are seeing surging momentum for a moratorium (on deep-sea mini
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 27, 2024
A new special issue of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters highlights recent progress by China's leading scientists in understanding and addressing the challenges of urban air pollution. The focus is on the interconnected control of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ground-level ozone (O3), the two primary pollutants degrading air quality and threatening public health in urban regions.
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Earth's continents are slowly moving across the planet's surface due to plate tectonics, culminating in regions of crustal expansion and collision. In the latter case, high temperatures and pressures lead to the reworking of the crust, affecting its composition, as well as that of the underlying mantle. Furthermore, when two continental plates collide, distinct topographic features are produced, namely mountain ranges, which are surficial manifests of Earth's thickened crust.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What’s next for NASA’s giant moon rocket? NASA’s huge lunar rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), might be in trouble. As rival launchers like SpaceX’s Starship gather pace, some are questioning the need…
