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[ad_1] The European Union executive has kick-started its plan to set a tougher 2030 emissions target, a move that could help maintain the bloc’s focus on climate change despite pressure to soften its green ambitions in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The European Commission began a public consultation to gather …

[ad_1] What a month March has been! First we had a burglary and my son was assaulted in the house in the middle of the day. My life changed in an instant. Nothing can be as intense for a mother as having your child’s life threatened. How are people so …

[ad_1] As we struggle to contain and cope with the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, the effective work of local authorities in supporting and providing services to their communities will be more important than ever, writes Tiffany Cloynes and Clare Hardy from Geldards. The difficulties caused by the pandemic will …

[ad_1] Over the years, WWF-Canada’s internal Climb team, Panda Pack, has been a leading fundraiser for WWF-Canada’s CN Tower Climb for Nature. Now in its 30th year, this event will be one for the record books. Not only is it a milestone achievement for the organization, it’s also occurring under …

[ad_1] In reaction to the alternative climate resolution, proposed by Barclays to its shareholders, Greenpeace UK’s climate finance adviser, Charlie Kronick, said: “This headline-baiting net zero proposal, which lacks any targets or detail, comes as Barclays issued an updated energy policy, demonstrating that it will continue to finance climate-wrecking tar …

[ad_1] Health officials in Belgium say a pet cat appears to have contracted COVID-19 from her owner, though they emphasized human-to-pet transmission seems to be extremely rare. “Recently, the veterinary medicine faculty in Liège reported that a coronavirus infection has been determined in a cat,” virologist Steven Van Gucht said …

[ad_1] In recent years, conservation groups such as WWF have been embroiled in controversy as the poorly trained “eco-guards” these organizations have funded in Africa have been accused of abusing indigenous people in their ancestral territories in national parks and preserves. Last week, a draft report released by the United …

[ad_1] A leaping dog looks just like a fluffy cloud in this extraordinary image which captures it in mid-air. The identity of the thick-coated pooch – from a breed of herding dogs knows as Puli – is only betrayed by the two black eyes emerging from its flying fur. In …

[ad_1] The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions fell 3.6 percent last year as renewables climbed to new record highs, official figures show. Provisional figures for 2019 reveal emissions of the pollutants that drive climate change were 3.6 percent lower than in 2018 and are down 45.2 percent on what they were in 1990. A …

[ad_1] Ozone Treaty Stopped Jet-Stream Drift in Southern Hemisphere More than ten years ago, climate scientist Lorenzo Polvani and his then postdoctoral fellow Seok-woo Son led a study that found the closing of the ozone hole—then underway as a consequence of the 1987 Montreal Protocol—was going to halt the poleward …