Human Rights & Public Liberties

Human Rights & Public Liberties

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Published on: 13 Jan, 2021

Climate & Environment

Catastrophic floods in Malaysia

The Met department has warned of more rains in the coming days.

Published on: 6 March, 2023

Brazil and the US to collaborate on combating the climate crisis

Kerry will advance the US-Brazil Climate Change Working Group that Presidents Biden and Lula relaunched earlier this month.

Published on: 28 February, 2023

Understanding the climate change

Since 2016, U-S government researchers funded by the Department of Energy have been simulating global warming and recording the results, in what is called the ..

Published on: 27 February, 2023

Brazil floods

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visited impacted areas in the southeastern state of Sao Paulo.

Published on: 22 February, 2023

Devastating floods in Sao Paulo state

Local government has declared a state of alert in the area as entire neighbourhoods are underwater, debris from hillside houses swept away by oozing earth, ..

Published on: 21 February, 2023

Madagascar cyclone

Mauritius has grounded flights and shut its stock exchange on Monday in anticipation of the cyclone.

Published on: 21 February, 2023

The largest climate-change experiments

The goal is to understand how climate change will affect Minnesota’s northern forest peatlands, massive wetlands that provide a habitat to spruce and tamarack trees, ..

Published on: 21 February, 2023

Cyclone Gabrielle

Residents of Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, are being asked to prepare for cyclone Gabrielle.

Published on: 13 February, 2023

Chile’s uncontrolled fires

About 20 people have been arrested on suspicion of having set some of the fires.

Published on: 12 February, 2023

More fires are expected in Chile

High temperatures are forecast through Friday and could rise above 35 degrees Celsius in the central Mauley Ñuble regions.

Published on: 9 February, 2023

World’s biodiversity crisis

The WWF estimates that Earth is losing species at thousands of times the natural extinction rate, due to human-led causes.

Published on: 12 December, 2022

Australia environment ruling

Drilling was suspended at the Barossa project off northern Australia after a judge on Sept. 21 found that the offshore regulator’s approval of Santos’ drilling ..

Published on: 5 December, 2022