Climate activist Greta Thunberg detained twice at Dutch protest | Climate Crisis News

Climate activist Greta Thunberg detained twice at Dutch protest | Climate Crisis News

The demonstration was organised to protest against fossil fuel subsidies in the Netherlands. Climate activist Greta Thunberg was detained twice by police at a demonstration in the Netherlands, after she and a group of marchers blocked a main road to protest against fossil fuel subsidies. Thunberg was initially detained by…

Chocolate prices to keep rising as West Africa’s cocoa crisis deepens | Agriculture News

Chocolate prices to keep rising as West Africa’s cocoa crisis deepens | Agriculture News

Long the world’s undisputed cocoa powerhouses, accounting for more than 60 percent of global supply, Ghana and its West African neighbour Ivory Coast are both facing catastrophic harvests this season. Expectations of shortages of cocoa beans – the raw material for chocolate – have seen New York cocoa futures more…

Photos: Record heat index of 62.3C scorches Rio de Janeiro | Weather News

Photos: Record heat index of 62.3C scorches Rio de Janeiro | Weather News

A heatwave stifling Brazil has set new records with Rio de Janeiro’s heat index hitting 62.3 degrees Celsius (144.1 degrees Fahrenheit), the highest in a decade, weather authorities say. The heat index measures what a temperature feels like by taking into account humidity. The actual maximum temperature in the city…

Norway gives Arctic foxes a helping hand amid climate woes | Climate

Norway gives Arctic foxes a helping hand amid climate woes | Climate

One by one, the crate doors swing open and five Arctic foxes bound off into the snowy landscape. But in the wilds of southern Norway, the newly freed foxes may struggle to find enough to eat, as the effects of climate change make the foxes’ traditional rodent prey more scarce. In Hardangervidda National…

Are snakebites rising in South Asia — and what’s responsible? | Health News

Are snakebites rising in South Asia — and what’s responsible? | Health News

In 1950, Roald Dahl wrote a short story titled Poison. The tale, set in colonial India and often found in deckle-edged children’s anthologies, tells a riveting story about racism. In the story, a striped snake called a common krait slithers on the stomach of one of the main characters. The…

Zambia declares national disaster after drought devastates agriculture | Climate Crisis News

Zambia declares national disaster after drought devastates agriculture | Climate Crisis News

Drought crisis brought on by El Nino and climate change will affect more than a million households, President Hakainde Hichilema says. Zambia has declared the drought the country is currently going through a national disaster, with President Hakainde Hichilema saying the lack of rain has devastated the agricultural sector, affecting…

‘Part of the family’: Chilean wildfire victims hold out hope for lost pets | Climate Crisis News

‘Part of the family’: Chilean wildfire victims hold out hope for lost pets | Climate Crisis News

Viña del Mar, Chile – Felipe Gajardo, a 27-year-old student, sits in a quiet school hallway in the coastal city of Viña del Mar, with an empty cat carrier by his side. Dozens of flyers with pictures of lost animals plaster the walls around him. The Libertador Bernardo O’Higgins school…

Disappearing eels and the fight for a centuries-old livelihood | Climate

Disappearing eels and the fight for a centuries-old livelihood | Climate

On the boarding and the signposts‘Lough Neagh Fishermen’s Co-operative’.But ever on our lips and at the weir‘The eelworks’. — “Eelworks” by Seamus Heaney Gerard McCourt is a seventh-generation eel fisherman who works the waters of Lough Neagh [Neill O’Higgins/Al Jazeera] For Gerard McCourt, there is a lot riding on this…

Death toll rises to 54 in southern Philippines landslide | Climate News

Death toll rises to 54 in southern Philippines landslide | Climate News

Authorities say 63 people remain missing as rescue efforts are hampered by heavy rain, thick mud and the threat of further landslides. The death toll from a landslide that hit a gold-mining village in the southern Philippines has risen to 54 people and 63 others are missing, authorities have said….