The crucial role of Congo's rainforest
• 12 nov 2025, 10:07
1 min de lecture
At COP30 in Brazil, leaders are highlighting the Congo rainforest’s crucial role as the world’s largest carbon sink. Despite storing 91 billion tons of carbon, it faces rapid deforestation, with the DRC losing 590,000 hectares in 2024. Calling for climate justice, African nations urge more global support. France plans a €2.5 billion initiative to help protect the region’s forests.
Thousands march in indigenous-led protests outside COP30 summit
• 17:02
1 min
Thousands of climate protesters marched through the Brazilian city of Belem on Saturday in a noisy, diverse and peaceful display to demand more action to protect the fate of the planet and vent their anger at governments and fossil fuel industries. Analy
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Ecuador: referendum on the presence of foreign military bases
• 10:40
1 min
Ecuadoreans grappling with a surge in violent crime head to the polls on Sunday to decide whether to allow the return of foreign military bases — which President Daniel Noboa says are central to fighting organized crime - and whether they back convening
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The spectacle of animal migration across the world
• 10:20
1 min
Footage showing the migrations of birds, mammals and even crustaceans is flooding social media. From the seas to the skies, animals from Norway to Australia are undertaking journeys -- some in search of warmer climates, others looking for a more favourab
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Tariffs, climate change, energy prices... tough times for France's winemakers
• 10:12
1 min
Winegrowers from southern France are planning a major protest in Béziers this Saturday. The location matches where the great wine revolt of 1907 began – one of the largest social movements of the 20th century in France, when southern growers protested ag
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Iran launches cloud seeding operations to induce rainfall as severe drought deepens
• 00:40
1 min
Iran's government has begun cloud seeding operations over the nation's largest lake, which has largely dried out due to the Islamic republic's worst drought in decades. Iran announced last year that it had developed its own technology to help trigger rai
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