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High prices of cocoa have spurred a surge in Liberia's cocoa exportation

Hershey, Nestle, Unilever, Mars

NGO links major chocolate brands to Liberia deforestation

Yuan Zi and his partner are to retire in China

Soft-power ambassadors

France bids farewell to beloved pandas bound for China

Experts say climate change has intensified extreme weather, making conditions increasingly unpredictable

State of emergency declared

Thailand floods kill 13, leaving people stranded and roads submerged

The tiny critters that love to lurk in mattresses and pillows can help pinpoint suspects at crime scenes

Six-legged forensics

Malaysian scientists recruit bed bugs as crime scene sleuths

Researchers found that even tiny chihuahuas carry wolf DNA

Points to interbreeding

Scientists say most dogs have some wolf DNA - even chihuahuas

An effective trade ban on the critically endangered oceanic whitetip shark will be discussed at the CITES meeting

More than 180 nations to join

Rhino horn sales, shark protection on wildlife talks agenda

A bunkering barge (R) supplies bio-methanol fuel to a container ship in Singapore. Three firms have been licensed to start supplying methanol in the port city from next year to help cut shipping carbon emissions

Set to issue bunkering licences

Singapore sets course for 'green' methanol ship fuel supplies

Recent referendums

European countries that allow assisted dying

Earth-shattering win

Scotland's World Cup victory over Denmark registered on richter scale

People wade through floodwaters in Vietnam's coastal Nha Trang city

At least 12 missing

Vietnam flooding kills at least 90

Northern Australia cleans up after cyclone

Andre Correa do Lago suspended the talks to consider Colombia's procedural objection

Boos, blowups and last-minute pause as a chaotic COP30 closes out

Nearly 200 countries approved the deal by consensus after two weeks of climate negotiations on the fringes of the rainforest

Disappointing outcome

Amazon climate deal a 'win' for global unity but fossil fuels untouched

Nearly 200 nations met to push through a modest climate deal at the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Belem

Nearly 200 nations

COP30: Key reactions to climate deal

The COP30 climate summit has ended -- what were the major outcomes?

Flurry of drama

What did countries agree to at COP30?

Climate activists poured dye into waters in 10 Italian cities

To highlight climate collapse

Climate activists dye Venice's Grand Canal green

India's Dev Karan decided to take action when he realised that 'the climate crisis is happening everywhere'

'Your voice matters'

Teen saving India's ponds says everyone can be a leader

Nations remained deadlocked after two weeks of negotiations that were supposed to end on Friday

Tumultuous talks

UN climate talks deadlocked as EU pushes fossil-fuel phaseout

Local Japanese authorities have approved the restart of the world's biggest nuclear power facility, the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima disaster

Kashiwazaki-Kariwa

World's biggest nuclear plant edges closer to restart

Indigenous people hold signs reading

Co-signed letter

30-plus nations oppose COP30 draft over fossil fuel omission: Colombia

A fire inside the venue of UN climate talks in Brazil has been brought under control

'The world is watching', says Guterres

Fire breaks out at UN climate talks, forcing delay at critical phase

The wolf dragged a green crab trap from the water to the shore to eat its bait in the Heiltsuk Indigenous territory of Canada

First potential tool use

Researchers stunned by wolf's use of crab traps to feed

The Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010 caused widespread devastation and left many coastal communities nervous about offshore drilling

Out of step with climate goals

Trump plans massive expansion of offshore oil drilling

Detection failures are muddying an online information landscape awash with AI-generated fakes

Fact-checking nightmare

AI's blind spot: tools fail to detect their own fakes

This NASA image shows the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, circled in the center, as seen by the L'LORRI black-and-white imager on NASA's Lucy spacecraft

Comet sparks scientific fascination, online furor over 'alien' origins

In coastal Nha Trang, whole city blocks were inundated and hundreds of cars were underwater

Rescue operations underway

Vietnam flooding submerges homes, kills 41, after relentless rain

The web was discovered in a cave on the border of Greece and Albania

Spanning about half the size of a tennis court

Giant spider web found in Greek-Albanian border cave: study

Forests in countries from Liberia to Zimbabwe were targetted for the Blue Carbon agreements

Blue Carbon’s schemes stall

The case of Africa's 'vanishing' carbon deals

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