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Tokyo plans to make day care free for all preschool children starting in September

'No time to spare'

Tokyo to make day care free to boost birth rate

Talks over the 1,800-page-plus Pentagon bill were complicated by a row over gender-affirming care

Senate approval pending

US House passes defense bill banning gender care for minors

British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira were murdered in the Amazon in 2022

Territorial conflicts

Murder rate in Amazon far higher than rest of Brazil: study

Aircraft have proved vital in the fight against the fire raging through Malibu

Strong winds, low humidity

Malibu wildfire grows as thousands still evacuated

EU conservatives want the bloc to shift into reverse on its rule to phase out the sale of new combustion engine vehicles in 2025

EU conservatives seek to stall 2035 combustion engine ban

The United Nations says 1.5 billion hectares (3.7 billion acres) of land must be restored by decade's end and at least $2.6 trillion in global investments are needed.

Crunch time for Saudi-hosted drought, desertification talks

Over 300 million poultry birds have been killed or culled since October 2021 due to bird flu

'Knocking on our door'

Experts warn of bird flu's pandemic threat

Indonesia has pledged to phase out coal power in 15 years and reach net-zero emissions by mid-century

Indonesia's new coal phase-out goal sets 'daunting task'

Firefighters are struggling to get any purchase on the fire ravaging Malibu

Unpredictable conditions

Wildfire in Malibu destroys homes, sends thousands fleeing

A Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is pictured at the oyamel firs (Abies religiosa) forest, in Ocampo municipality, Michoacan State in Mexico on December 19, 2016

Federal protection

US moves to save once-common monarch butterflies from extinction

Villagers harvest ice from a local lake near the settlement of Oy, some 70 km south of Yakutsk, Russia with the air temperature at about minus 41 degrees Celsius in November 2018

Shocking report

Sink to source: Arctic tundra emitting more carbon than it absorbs

New York accuses PepsiCo of harming the public and failing to warn consumers of the health and environmental threats posed by its packaging

'Speculative' allegations

New York appeals dismissed PepsiCo plastic pollution suit

A firefighter battles the Franklin blaze in Malibu, California on December 10, 2024

Threat to communities

Wildfire quickly spreads in California's Malibu

Government subsidies have been important in Germany and elsewhere in helping consumers make the switch to electric vehicles

Germany's Scholz calls for Europe EV subsidy plan

Exhaust fumes are blamed for air pollution including ozone and nitrogen dioxide

5% fall from previous year

Fine particle pollution blamed for nearly 240,000 EU deaths in 2022

The island of New Guinea is home to the third-largest expanse of rainforest on the planet and has long been celebrated as one of the 'lungs of the Earth'

Following absence at last meet

Papua New Guinea PM vows to return to UN climate talks

Robert F. Kennedy faces Senate confirmation after he was nominated by US President-elect Donald Trump to be the next Secretary of Health and Human Services

Due to 'lack of credentials'

Dozens of Nobel laureates sign letter opposing RFK Jr. as Trump's health secretary

Google says the Willow chip has it confidently on a path to the kind of quantum computing that could tackle seemingly insurmountable real-world problems

Huge advancement

Google announces quantum computing chip breakthrough

Climate scientists say that global warming drives extreme weather like storms, floods and heatwaves, making these disasters more frequent and intense

2024 'certain' to be hottest year on record: EU monitor

Rising more than 2,400 metres (8,000 feet) above sea level on the central island of Negros, Kanlaon is one of 24 active volcanoes in the Philippines

Evacuations underway as Philippine volcano erupts

Michiko Murata, who helps run the Tokyo Federation of A-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, says many survivors from the World War II bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki chose to live in isolation

Japan's A-bomb survivors

From discrimination to a Nobel

The ICJ is undertaking historic hearings on climate change

'David v Goliath' battle at ICJ climate hearings

Wisdom (R), a Laysan Albatross that is at least 74 years old, is expecting again

Laysan Albatross

World's oldest known wild bird is expecting again, aged 74

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen (C) says the trade deal is needed in a world headed towards 'isolation and fragmentation'

Monumental moment

EU and S.America countries conclude divisive trade deal

The Lynetteholmen artificial island is being built to save Copenhagen from rising water levels

Rising sea levels

Copenhagen takes on its biggest climate threat -- water

The Emir of Kano parades through the streets of Kano during the Durbar Festival in Kano, northern Nigeria

Colourful parades

Eid festivities in north Nigeria make UNESCO heritage list

India and Pakistan are both suffocate every winter by a haze of pollution traversing their border

India, Pakistan share climate challenges but not solutions

Europe's new Vega-C rocket launched from French Guiana in its first takeoff since a failed flight two years ago

Two years after failed flight

Europe's Vega-C rocket launches satellite into orbit after delays

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