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The Environment and Sustainable Development Unit (ESDU) at the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences (FAFS) at the American University of Beirut (AUB) held a ceremony to announce the winners of the Small Green Innovative Projects Competition in Lebanon. Funded by the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development (AFESD), the competition aims to support and develop innovative projects which contribute meaningfully to sustainable development.
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The National Centre of Meteorology (NCM) will share advanced data on temperatures and humidity levels with health authorities in Abu Dhabi under a new action plan to protect the public against the effects of extreme weather.
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A new Google datacentre in Essex is expected to emit more than half a million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, equivalent to about 500 short-haul flights a week, planning documents show.
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It’s the last native mammal on the island, but the “incredibly cute and fluffy” Christmas Island flying fox is critically endangered with no recovery plan and severely outdated conservation advice.
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High hotel prices for Brazil's COP30 climate summit in November have prompted the United Nations to urge its staff to limit attendance, while government delegations are still scrambling to find rooms within their budgets. ...more |
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172 million plastic bags kept out of the environment in a year.
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Greatest damage from heat, drought and flooding done in Cyprus, Greece, Malta and Bulgaria.
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One and a half million Australians living in coastal areas are at risk from rising sea levels by 2050, a landmark climate report has warned.
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A landmark agreement to curb billions of dollars in subsidies contributing to overfishing came into force on Monday, the World Trade Organization said - a move activists hailed as a step towards helping global fish stocks recover.
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A planned expansion of military spending by Nato countries could generate an additional 1,320m tonnes of planet-heating pollution over the next decade – on a par with the annual greenhouse gas emissions generated by Brazil, the fifth largest emitter in the world, according to a new report.
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