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U.N. sounds clarion call over ‘irreversible’ climate impacts by humans
By Nina Chestney and Andrea Januta (Reuters) - The U.N. climate panel sounded a dire warning Monday, saying the world is dangerously close to runaway warming - and that humans are "unequivocally" to b...
Aug 09, 2021
Explainer-The U.N. climate report’s five futures – decoded
By Andrea Januta (Reuters) - The U.N. climate panel report https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1 released Monday on the physical science of climate change uses five possible scenarios for the future. The...
Aug 09, 2021
Bees find refuge from perilous world in robotic hive
BEIT HAEMEK, Israel (Reuters) - The buzz of the bees drowned out the hum of the robotic arm, which worked with an efficiency no human beekeeper could match. One after another the machine scanned stack...
Aug 09, 2021
To save the planet, focus on cutting methane – U.N. climate report
By Valerie Volcovici (Reuters) - In four decades of climate negotiations, the world has focused intensely and exclusively on the most abundant climate-warming gas: carbon dioxide. This year, scientist...
Aug 09, 2021
French soccer sector shares edge up on possible Messi move to PSG
PARIS (Reuters) - Shares in companies involved in French soccer rose on Monday as expectations grew that Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi would seal a transfer to Paris Saint Germain (PSG). Shares i...
Aug 09, 2021
Once-in-50-year heat waves now happening every decade -U.N. climate report
By Jake Spring (Reuters) - Extreme heat waves that previously only struck once every 50 years are now expected to happen once per decade because of global warming, while downpours and droughts have al...
Aug 09, 2021
Key takeaways from the U.N. climate panel’s report
By Andrea Januta (Reuters) - The U.N. climate panel has released its most comprehensive assessment https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1 of climate change yet. Here are some of the report's main conclusi...
Aug 09, 2021
Germany drops probe of former Deutsche Bank board member over Wirecard
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German prosecutors have dropped an investigation of former Deutsche Bank supervisory board member Alexander Schuetz for alleged insider trading of Wirecard shares, a Stuttgart st...
Aug 09, 2021
Hundreds of Philippine hospitals near full capacity as virus cases surge
MANILA (Reuters) - Nearly a fifth of hospitals in the Philippines are close to full capacity as a surge in COVID-19 infections, driven by the highly contagious Delta variant of the virus, spreads acro...
Aug 09, 2021
Russia expands military construction plans on Kuril islands – report
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia plans to build 51 more pieces of military infrastructure on the Kuril islands, the state TASS news agency quoted Russia's defence ministry as saying on Monday. Part of the ch...
Aug 09, 2021
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