COP16 biodiversity summit enters 'heart-stopping' final day with divide over funding
• Oct 31, 2024, 9:53 PM
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The COP16 summit on biodiversity is set to end Friday with negotiations stalled over how to reach funding targets of $200 billion per year for biodiversity by 2030. Developing countries have called for more money and better representation in decision-making as Indigenous peoples and local communities held demonstrations calling for better rights and protections.
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Paying the price of climate change: Louisiana's insurance crisis
• 11:51 AM
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Since the storms of 2020 and 2021, many insurance companies have left the US state of Louisiana or gone bankrupt. Those that remain have increased their rates five-fold in some cases. The poorest homeowners are now unable to pay the insurance needed for
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Does Moo Deng have competition from a younger, Scottish pygmy hippo?
• 11:21 AM
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PRESS REVIEW – Tuesday, November 5: We take a look at the US front pages ahead of the country's landmark presidential vote. Also: what, if any, difference will the election result make to the ongoing war in the Middle East? Finally, a pygmy hippo born at
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