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Monkeys on a wall at a temple in Mihintale village in March. A nationwide census has counted more than seven million monkeys in the country

'Unbelievable' figure

Sri Lanka counts seven million crop-busting monkeys

Communities across Asia's Himalayan Hindu Kush region face heightened disaster risks this monsoon season, experts warned

Heightened disaster risks

Disasters loom over South Asia with forecast of a hotter, wetter monsoon

'I dream of the day when it will be announced that there is no longer any need for climate or ocean summits,' say Moetai Brotherson

Marine protected area

Value oceans, don't plunder them, French Polynesia leader tells AFP

New T-Rex ancestor discovered in drawers of Mongolian institute

Since President Donald Trump -- a proponent of fossil fuels and climate change skeptic -- returned to power, federal authorities have reversed course on US climate policy

Reversing rules

Trump admin aims to loosen power plant emissions rules

A wildfire burning in Squamish, British Columbia, Canada on June 10, 2025

Canada town near Vancouver ready to evacuate as fire nears

Canada town near Vancouver ready to evacuate as fire approaches

In eastern Greenland, the hottest day during the heatwave was about 3.9C warmer compared to the preindustrial climate

World Weather Attribution

Greenland ice melted much faster than average in May heatwave: scientists

Vanuatu's Climate Change Minister, Ralph Regenvanu answers AFP journalists' questions during an interview on the sidelines of the third United Nations Ocean Conference

'We have to try everything': Vanuatu envoy taking climate fight to ICJ

Indian-born UAE estate agent Muhammed Sajjad, leads a convoy of fIndian expats nostalgic for the monsoon season, on a

Driven by nostalgia

Monsoon-loving Indian expats chase rain in UAE desert

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya is a physician and health economist who left a professorship at Stanford University to join the Trump administration

Gender, Alzheimer's, cancer

US restores some medical research grants, says top Trump official

The Thai government has proposed building a dam to prevent contaminated water from entering the country

Toxic Thailand rivers pinned on Myanmar mines

Cultivated peatlands account for some five percent of greenhouse gas emissions

20% of the land cover

Mapping Ireland's peatlands to help cut carbon emissions

More than 220 wildfires are burning across Canada, with 3.3 million hectares (12,700 square miles) already consumed so far this year

Violent and early

Experts warn Canada's wildfire season likely to be massive again

Countries have been negotiating a global treaty to address a torrent of plastic entering the environment, including the oceans.

UN Ocean Conference

Nations call for strong plastics treaty as difficult talks loom

The din created by shipping and other human activities is rising at an alarming rate, marine conservation groups say

Nations call for 'quieter' ocean to help marine life

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government has promised to deliver 'the biggest nuclear rollout program for a generation'

Sizewell C power station

UK pumps £14 bn into nuclear plant on path to net zero

NASA image released on December 11, 2018, shows sea ice forming in the Bellingshausen Sea

Satellite monitoring

Emperor penguin populations declining faster than expected

Greenpeace said nickel exploitation on the islands of Gag, Kawe and Manuran had led to the destruction of more than 500 hectares of forest and vegetation

Nickel extraction

Indonesia revokes most mining permits in dive hotspot after outcry

US President Donald Trump speaks as US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (C), and US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon look on during a MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) Commission Event

Controversial move

RFK Jr ousts entire US vaccine panel over alleged conflicts

So-called polymetallic nodules like those seen in this 2016 photograph from Japan are at the heart of the race to mine ocean floors for valuable minerals and metals

Hungry for crucial resources

China carefully assembling a deep-sea mining strategy

A handout satellite picture of wildfires in York Factory First Nation in Canada's Manitoba province from May 30

Indigenous community at risk

Military aids evacuations as Canada wildfires expand eastward

Officials in Sri Lanka said they were withholding the results of a survey of crop-destroying wildlife because monkey business appeared to have distorted some of the data

Data appeared unrealistic

Monkey business delays Sri Lanka's wildlife survey

Image grab taken from video footage provided by whale rescue group Organisation for the Rescue and Research of Cetaceans in Australia (ORRCA) on June 9, 2025 shows a distressed humpback whale tangled in a rope swimming south of Sydney Harbou

Distressed animal

Tangled humpback whale sparks rescue mission off Australia

South Africa is one of the largest polluters in the world and generates about 80 percent of its electricity through coal

Losing billions

SAfrica's coal dependency puts economy at risk: report

Mirabai Khindkar said the only thing her land grew was debt, after crops failed in drought and her husband killed himself

Climate change heightens risk of Indian farmer suicides

Farmed salmon -- like the ones grown in pens here in the Australian island state of Tasmania -- are easier to grow than some other fish species

Important source for diets

Farmed production of some fish - and seaweed - is soaring

Nations gathering at the UN Ocean Conference are under pressure to deliver more to restore the health of the seas

No US delegation expected

World leaders urged to step up for overexploited oceans

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