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IMF gives Mozambique $118 million for Cyclone Idai rebuilding

Posted on April 19, 2019 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

FILE PHOTO: Flooded fields are seen from the air near Beira, Mozambique, in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai, March 23, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings/File PhotoMAPUTO (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund will grant Mozambique a $118.2 million credit facility to help…

Deadly storm knocks out power in U.S. South, threatens east coast

Posted on April 19, 2019 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

(Reuters) - Severe storms that killed three people in the U.S. South moved eastward on Friday, causing widespread power outages and threatening tornadoes along the east coast from Pennsylvania to Florida, forecasters said. The storm took a hard aim at…

Hurricane Michael Was A Category 5, NOAA Finds – The First Since Andrew In 1992

Posted on April 19, 2019 by Laurel Wamsley | 0 Comments

From NPR With winds of 160 mph, the October hurricane was the strongest on record to make landfall on the Florida Panhandle, where communities are still trying to recover. NOAA upgraded it from a Category 4. (Image credit: Scott Olson/Getty…

Swedish climate activist Thunberg admits she might be 'very naive'

Posted on April 19, 2019 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

ROME (Reuters) - Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg wants to fix climate change and hopes for world peace, but acknowledges that she might be being “very naive”. Thunberg, 16, has brought her campaign against rising global temperatures to Rome this…

Cities may save some species from extinction, but they don’t save species’ ecological functions

Posted on April 19, 2019 by Mike Gaworecki | 0 Comments

The responses of wildlife species when their natural habitat is converted into urban areas are many and varied. Urbanization is one of the leading causes of biodiversity loss around the globe, while, at the same time, some species are not…

Emma Thompson: 'If I could fly cleanly, I would'

Posted on April 19, 2019 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

From BBC Actress Emma Thompson has been defending her decision to fly from the US to attend a climate change protest in central London. Speaking to reporters from the Extinction Rebellion campaign group’s pink boat, she said did not fly…

Emma Thompson, weeping teenagers join peaceful climate protest in London

Posted on April 19, 2019 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

LONDON (Reuters) - Film star Emma Thompson joined climate change activists in central London on Friday to read poetry praising Earth’s bounties, part of a series of protests which have caused transport snarl-ups in the British capital. Organisers Extinction Rebellion…

New ancient, giant carnivore described from bones in museum drawer

Posted on April 19, 2019 by Shreya Dasgupta | 0 Comments

For a long time, some of the fossil remains that had been excavated from a site in western Kenya in the late 1970s languished in a drawer at Nairobi National Museum, unidentified. Now, by examining and piecing together the teeth,…

Eni, Fincantieri, Terna and CDP team up to build wave power stations

Posted on April 19, 2019 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

FILE PHOTO: The logo of Italian energy company Eni is seen at a gas station in Rome, Italy September 30, 2018. REUTERS/Alessandro BianchiMILAN (Reuters) - Italian oil group Eni is joining forces with shipbuilder Fincantieri, power grid group Terna and…

Climate change protesters descend on France's SocGen, energy companies

Posted on April 19, 2019 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

PARIS (Reuters) - Climate activists blocked thousands of employees from entering the headquarters of French bank Societe Generale, state-run utility EDF and oil giant Total on Friday, environmental group Greenpeace said. Environmental activists block the entrance of the French bank…