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Scientists have found new evidence that desertification, potentially linked to global warming, leads to large amounts of nutrient-rich dust landing in the sea, causing ocean algae to grow rapidly. Biological oceanographer John A. Gittings and an international group of researchers have found an example of this phenomenon in the Indian…

ExxonMobil chief executive Darren Woods has urged president-elect Donald Trump to not take the US out of the Paris agreement on climate change. “We need a global system for managing emissions”, he said in an interview at the annual UN climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Negotiators at the UN climate talks in Azerbaijan are working to overcome a deadlock in negotiations. African representatives are emphasizing that, despite being the least polluting continent, Africa disproportionately suffers from the climate crisis. Some have expressed cautious optimism to RFI about the possibility of a last-minute resolution.

At Cop28 last year they also pledged to double energy efficiency in an effort to cut the world’s reliance on fossil fuels

Researchers found no difference in the diversity of species in urban meadows compared with those in rural settings

Scheme has collected a fraction of the waste it set out to handle and is struggling with broken machinery and poor finances

Five oil and chemical companies which promised to divert plastic from environment accused of producing 132m tonnes of it

Only 2.5% of more than 300,000 farms were inspected at least once in 2022 and 2023, researchers find

‘Talks aren’t just about figures on paper, they’re about people’s lives’, says Climate Action International as talks reach critical final days