source: https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/17788/how-much-of-earths-biomass-is-affected-by-humans/

Climate-vulnerable nations’ hopes that the world was on the cusp of an agreement to rapidly phase out the use of fossil fuels at the COP28 climate summit were shattered when a new draft text emerged from negotiations drastically watering down such language.

Australian Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen, speaking on behalf of the Umbrella Group of nations, which includes the United States, the United Kingdom, Norway and Canada, told the COP that the group could not sign the agreement as it stood.

While The Satanic Temple wasn’t allowed to have an after-school program, Northern York district officials did allow it to establish a daytime program similar to one afforded to a Christian group.

Deutschland könnte die Migrationskrise zum Nutzen aller bewältigen – aber Bund und Länder vergeben die Chance. Der Leitartikel.

Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa says he has handed his resignation to the president, after investigators searched his official residence in an inquiry into alleged corruption.

He said he had not been named as a suspect but believed the inquiry was incompatible with staying in office.

Prosecutors said on Tuesday they were investigating concessions awarded for lithium mines and hydrogen production.

Five people have been detained, according to Público newspaper.

Among them are two people seen as close to Mr Costa, including his chief of staff Vítor Escária and a business consultant, Público reports.

At least 129 people have been killed in an earthquake that struck a remote part of northwestern Nepal overnight on Friday, police confirmed, as officials said multiple buildings have collapsed and warned that the death toll could rise.

The quake measured magnitude 5.6 according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and hit some 42 kilometers (about 26 miles) from Jumla, Nepal, in Karnali province. It struck at a comparatively shallow depth of 18 kilometers and the tremors could be felt as far away as India’s capital New Delhi.