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At COP27, protesters within U.N. venue demand climate finance
"There’s no time anymore to keep coming to these COPs as an exercise, when parties come in their private jets and are sponsored by Coca-Cola, etc., and we do a whole dance around an issue so critical and so urgent," said Zukiswa White, 29, a South African campaigner for gender equity in climate policy.
On New Zealand farm, scientists reduce cow burps to save the world
Drought-hit Kenyan herders save wildlife - and their livelihoods
Kenyan farmers are converting some of the farmland into sustainably managed rangeland to create a wildlife conservancy where cattle and wild animals can co-exist and eco-tourism provides jobs for local people.
EU backslides on U.N. biodiversity conservation goal, Eurostat says
The European Union progressed towards most of the United Nations' sustainable development goals over the last five years, but took a step back on the conservation of ecosystems and biodiversity, the bloc's statistics office says.
In Chablis vineyards, fear grows that destructive frosts may become the norm
Chablis is a very dry white wine that is produced only in the Yonne region of Burgundy due to the area's specific climate. But volumes could now be under pressure as the emergence of mild weather early in the year followed by a spring frost, previously unusual, looks to becoming a recurrent trend.
U.S. farmers improving climate-friendly practices, but 'more work to do'
U.S. crop insurance payouts rise sharply as climate change worsens droughts, floods
Insurance payments to U.S. farmers for crops lost to droughts and flooding have risen more than threefold over the past 25 years, according to an analysis of federal data by the Environmental Working Group released on Thursday.