Environment

• Thursday, November 10th 2022 - 09:38 UTC

  Germany, Norway and UK support plan to contain deforestation in the Colombian Amazon

  

  Germany, Norway and the United Kingdom are supporting a plan from the Colombian government, working with local communities to contain deforestation in the Colombian Amazon, it was announced at the COP27 taking place at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

• Wednesday, November 9th 2022 - 10:40 UTC

  Falkland Islander addresses the House of Commons from the dispatch

  

  A Law student at Stoke-on-Trent became the first Falkland Islander to address his “peers” at the House of Commons last Friday during a special session of the United Kingdom's Youth Parliament, with Sir Lindsay Hoyle presiding the meeting.

• Wednesday, November 9th 2022 - 10:11 UTC

  Nicole expected to become a hurricane and make landfall in Florida

  

  As Tropical Storm Nicole threatens to make landfall shortly, NASA's plans to send a rocket to the moon under the Artemis 1 program might be thwarted, according to weather reports from the US State of Florida.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 20:38 UTC

  AOSIS countries want oil companies to fund climate action through taxation

  

  Antigua and Barbuda's Prime Minister Gaston Browne Tuesday launched an appeal on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) for oil companies to pay a “global carbon tax” and thus help undo some of the damage caused climate-change-wise.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 09:34 UTC

  Pesticides and heavy metals detected in Argentine river waters

  

  According to a report from the National Institute of Agropecuarian Technology (INTA) and the national universities of San Martín (Unsam) and of the Litoral (UNL), a high number of biocides was detected in the Salado River basin in the province of Santa Fe.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 08:52 UTC

  British Antarctic Survey participating at the UN COP27 convention in Egypt

  

  British Antarctic Survey (BAS) scientists will participate in the 27th session of the United Nations National Framework Convention on Climate Change, hosted by the Arab Republic of Egypt until 18 November 2022 at the Sharm el-Sheikh International Convention Centre.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 03:51 UTC

  Macron and Maduro bump into each other at COP27

  

  Presidents Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela and Emmanuel Macron of France held a conversation on the sidelines of the COP27 Climate Summit at the Egyptian Red Sea por of Sharm l-Sheikh during which they agreed to work together toward mutual environmental goals.

• Monday, November 7th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  World Meteorological Organization: Grim forecast at the launching of COP27

  

  Earth's warming weather and rising seas are getting worse, with the situation deteriorating faster than ever, the World Meteorological Organization revealed in a new report.

• Monday, November 7th 2022 - 07:57 UTC

  Maduro lands in Sharm El-Sheikh

  

  Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro, who rarely travels abroad except to friendly countries, Sunday landed at the Egyptian port city of Sharm el-Sheikh to participate in the COP27 Climate Summit.

• Monday, November 7th 2022 - 07:50 UTC

  Compensation to poorer countries added to COP27 agenda

  

  Dignitaries at the Egyptian port of Sharm El-Sheikh Sunday concurred on the opening day of the UN Conference of the Parties (COP27) Climate Summit on the need to discuss compensation by the world's wealthier nations for damages stemming from practices that were detrimental to the environment and have thus prompted the current climate change crisis.