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A Navy soldier patrols the Port of Outeiro, where cruise ships are docked to host delegations attending the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Belem, Brazil

UN climate conference

All aboard! Cruise ships ease Belem's hotel dearth

Ahead of COP30 climate summit

'Big Carbon' floods social media with climate-related misinformation

Vantara holds tens of thousands of animals, including some of the world's most endangered species

Inconsistent numbers

India mega-zoo in spotlight again over animal acquisitions

Nereu Sabadini sits on the debris of his house that was destroyed by a tornado in Rio Bonito do Iguaçu, Brazil

Devastating twister

Tornado kills six, injures 750 as it wrecks southern Brazil town

Brazil's Environment Minister Marina Silva has come to symbolize the tensions within Brazil's government over the uneasy coexistence between developmental pragmatism and protecting the environment

Four Brazilians to watch at COP30

Japan is scrambling to address a surge in bear attacks, but has less than half the number of 'Matagi' hunters it had in 1980

'Almost every day': Japan battles spike in bear attacks

Brazil's Minister of Indigenous Peoples, Sonia Guajajara, hopes Indigenous peoples will have a leading voice at COP30, which will take place in the Brazilian Amazon

COP30: Indigenous peoples vital to humanity's future, Brazilian minister tells AFP

The twister overturned cars and damaged homes in Rio Bonito do Iguacu, in Brazil's Parana state, according to the local weather service

Overturned cars and damaged homes

Tornado kills six, wrecks town in Brazil

'Correlation is not causation'

Mercury retrograde makes 9 November return

The World Health Organization considers mercury one of the top 10 chemicals of major public health concern, calling it

End of amalgams

Countries agree to end mercury tooth fillings by 2034

Typhoon Kalmaegi has killed more than 200 people in the Philippines

Preemptive evacuations began

Philippines halts search for typhoon dead as huge new storm nears

Chinese research vessel Da Yang Hao arrives at Avatiu Harbour in the Cook Islands

'Scientific research cruise'

Chinese ship scouts deep-ocean floor in South Pacific

James Watson speaks during a press conference at the Science museum in London, 20 May 2005

James Watson, Nobel prize-winning DNA pioneer, dead at 97

Rooted in the idea that a small elite of premium flyers should pay more for their outsized contribution to global warming, the proposal will likely pit them against the powerful aviation industry

Potential luxury tax law

At COP30, nations target the jet set with luxury flight tax

The Dutch have dealt with flooding for centuries

Five-day exercise

Operation Cloudburst: Dutch train for 'water bomb' floods

Italian and Japanese experts estimate the tree to be 3,000 to 5,500 years old

Amid Israeli occupation

West Bank's ancient olive tree a 'symbol of Palestinian endurance'

Expedition chief Evan Miles (right) and fellow glaciologist Stanislav Kutuzov (left in blue) supervise the drilling

Pamir mountain range

Big leap in quest to get to bottom of climate ice mystery

This aerial view shows a field fire in Sao Felix do Xingu, Para state, Brazil, on June 20, 2025

Tropical Forests Forever Facility

World leaders launch fund to save forests, get first $5 bn

Brazilian president and host Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva referred to

'Moral failure': Leaders seek to rally world at Amazon climate talks

People walk under a misting system on a hot day in Tokyo earlier this year, which is on track to become one of the hottest in recorded history, according to the UN

As greenhouse gases grow to record highs

UN says 2025 to be among top three warmest years on record

The typhoon is looming as central Vietnam still reels from more than a week of flooding and record rains

127 people still missing

Typhoon Kalmaegi hits Vietnam after killing 140 in Philippines

Hurricane Melissa caused floods in Jamaica in October

Failing to curb emissions

Facing climate 'overshoot', world heads into risky territory

See your photos here

Understanding the November beaver supermoon

Field fires -- like this one in June 2025 in Sao Felix do Xingu, Para state, Brazil -- is a cheap way to clear pastures

Cultural shift needed

Who is setting fire to the Amazon?

Acai is the emblematic fruit of the city of Belem

In Brazilian Amazon

Five things to know about 'forest COP' host city Belem

Advantages of putting data centers in space include a constant supply of solar energy and ease of cooling the power-hungry operations

Eyes turn to space to feed power-hungry data centers

Japan deployed troops in a northern region hit by a spate of deadly bear attacks, which have reached record levels with 12 people killed and more than 100 injured since April

Japan deploys troops after wave of deadly bear attacks

Brazil is backing the creation of a global investment fund that would reward tropical countries for protecting their forests

Tropical Forests Forever Facility

Pay to protect: Brazil pitches new forest fund at COP30

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