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Top StoriesThe Unwitting Winners of France’s Drought: Salt Farmers
Top StoriesThe Unwitting Winners of France’s Drought: Salt Farmers
Analysis-Climate Change, Scarcity Chip Away at Degrowth Taboo
Date: August 8, 2022
By Federica Urso and Mark John (Reuters) – Degrowth – the idea that a finite planet cannot sustain ever-increasing consumption – is about the closest you can get to a heresy in economics, where growth is widely held as the best route to prosperity. But, as climate change accelerates and supply chain disruptions offer rich-world...
Climate Change Puts Lyme Disease in Focus for France’s Valneva After Covid Blow
Date: August 8, 2022
By Natalie Grover LONDON (Reuters) – With climate change spurring more cases of tick-borne Lyme disease, drugmaker Valneva is betting big on a vaccine as it looks beyond disappointing sales of its COVID shot. Although Valneva secured European Union and British regulatory approval, both walked away from contracts worth more than a billion dollars combined,...
Climate Change Compensation Fight Brews Ahead of COP27 Summit
Date: August 8, 2022
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Tensions are mounting ahead of this year’s U.N. climate summit, as vulnerable countries ramp up demands for rich countries to pay compensation for losses inflicted on the world’s poorest people by climate change. When diplomats from nearly 200 countries meet on Nov. 7 in the beachside resort town of...
China Halts Military, Climate Dialogue With U.S. Over Pelosi Taiwan Trip
Date: August 5, 2022
By Yimou Lee and Sarah Wu TAIPEI (Reuters) – China announced on Friday it was halting dialogue with the United States in a number of areas, including between theater-level military commanders and on climate change, in a furore over U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan. China’s foreign ministry said it was also suspending...
U.N. Warns ‘no Way’ to Tackle Climate Change Without U.s., China Cooperation
Date: August 5, 2022
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -There is “no way to solve the most pressing problems of all the world without an effective dialogue and cooperation” between the United States and China, a spokesman for U.N. chief Antonio Guterres said on Friday after Beijing halted climate talks with Washington. Tackling climate change has been a key area of...
Factbox-Wildfires Breaking Out Across the World
Date: August 5, 2022
(Reuters) – Extreme fires have swallowed up huge swathes of land, destroyed homes and threatened livelihoods across the world in the first half of 2022. Below is a list of the bigger blazes – once relatively rare events that scientists say have become increasingly frequent and fierce, fuelled by heat waves, droughts and the growing...