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Campaigners targeted the UK headquarters of TotalEnergies with paint to protest a pipeline bringing crude oil to the Tanzanian coast through several protected nature reserves

Ugandans Sue TotalEnergies For Reparations In France

Twenty-six Ugandans on Tuesday sued French oil giant TotalEnergies in Paris for reparations over alleged human rights violations at its massive megaprojects in the country, as climate protesters targeted its UK headquarters.
Police said they had arrested 27 people

Climate Protesters Target TotalEnergies' UK Headquarters

Climate change campaigners targeted the UK headquarters of oil giant TotalEnergies with paint Tuesday, protesting the French firm's alleged human rights violations in the construction of a contentious oil pipeline in Uganda.
Graphic showing forest area and forest area lost from 2000 to 2021 and in 2022 in the ten countries with the most forested area, according to Global Forest Watch

Football Pitch Of Tropical Forest Lost Every 5 Seconds

Earth lost an area of carbon-absorbing rainforest larger than Switzerland or the Netherlands in 2022, most of it destroyed to make way for cattle and commodity crops, an analysis of satellite data released Tuesday revealed.
The Amazon river, part of which can be seen here in Colombia, is the biggest river in the world by volume - but is it the longest?

Which Is Longer, Amazon Or Nile? New Quest Aims To Settle Old Debate

What's the longest river in the world, the Nile or the Amazon? The Amazon, the pulsing aorta of the world's biggest rainforest, has long been recognized as the largest river in the world by volume, discharging more than the Nile, the Yangtze and the Mississippi combined.
State-owned Petroecuador is authorized to exploit about 300 hectares of the Yasuni

Indigenous Defenders Of Oil In The Amazon

A group of Indigenous Waorani women give a war cry warning that environmentalists are not welcome in their part of the Ecuadoran Amazon, where an oil field operates partly on a protected reserve.
Gas flares in Iraqi oilfields produce vast amounts of greenhouse gases without any economic or social benefit

New Carbon Accounting Rules Target 'Greenwashing'

Common standards unveiled Monday for companies to report their greenhouse gas emissions could curb misleading climate claims in the corporate world, the chair of the body that wrote the norms told AFP. Currently, most large companies report how many tonnes of carbon they emit into the atmosphere each year, but the data is often not reliable.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says the push to achieve climate neutrality by 2045 will bring a new economic golden age but some experts are sceptical about seeing any short-terms benefits

German Economy Bids Goodbye To Years Of Plenty

On his many visits to semiconductor factories and electric car plants, Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz bangs the drum for an economy at the forefront of an industrial transformation.
This undated image courtesy of OceanGate Expeditions, shows their Titan submersible launching from a platform

Titan Sub Parts Found Near Titanic, Five-Man Crew Dead

The Titan submersible was lost at sea and its passengers are dead, the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed. Debris was located Thursday near the wreckage site of the Titanic, confirming the demise of the OceanGate sub and its five-man crew.

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