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Don’t let deep sea become ‘wild west’, Guterres tells world leaders
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Monday the world could not let the deepest oceans “become the wild west,” at the start in France of a global summit on the seas. World leaders are attending the UN Ocean Conference in Nice as nations tussle over contentious rules on
As the UN Ocean Conference opens in France, a push to turn promises into protection
The third UN Ocean Conference opens Monday as pressure mounts for nations to turn decades of promises into real protection for the sea. The summit comes as just 2.7 percent of the ocean is effectively protected from destructive extractive activities, according to the nonprofit Marine Conservation Institute. That’s
Contractor in Syria uncovers a surprise beneath the rubble: an ancient tomb complex
A contractor digging into the earth where the rubble of a destroyed house had been cleared away in northern Syria stumbled across a surprise: the remains of an underground Byzantine tomb complex believed to be more than 1,500 years old. The discovery emerged last month in the town of
Climate change heightens risk of Indian farmer suicides
On a small farm in India’s Maharashtra state, Mirabai Khindkar said the only thing her land grew was debt, after crops failed in drought and her husband killed himself. Farmer suicides have a long history in India, where many are one crop failure away from disaster, but extreme weather