European Parliament and EU member countries have reached a deal to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2035 Brussels, Belgium | Xinhua | The European Parliament and the Council of the European Union (EU) reached a provisional agreement late on Thursday on a European Commission …
Read More »Built on sand: Dutch find unlikely ally against water
Trintelhaven, Netherlands | AFP | The Netherlands is deploying an unlikely ally as climate change intensifies the low-lying country’s age-old fight against floods: more than 666,000 truckloads of sand to shore up a crucial dike. While building on sand has traditionally been a byword for wobbly foundations, the Dutch say they …
Read More »Global warming outpaces efforts to slow it: UN
Paris, France | AFP | Humanity is falling further behind in the race against climate change, with the gap between greenhouse gas emissions and levels needed to achieve the Paris climate treaty temperature goals continuing to widen, the UN said Tuesday. With only a single degree Celsius of warming so …
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