PARIS – French authorities have placed 24 activists under house arrest ahead of major U.N. climate warming talks starting near Paris next week, using the state of emergency powers declared after the Paris attacks.
The U.N. detailed a doubling in weather-related disasters in the past 30 years, a week before world leaders gather in terror-struck Paris for climate talks.
With an electricity grid supplied by hydroelectric dams across rivers, from the heat of its numerous volcanoes, and from wind and the sun, the small Central American nation expects 97 percent of its energy generation to come from renewable sources this year.
Climate activists are looking for alternatives ways to bring attention to the upcoming climate negotiations in Paris after two public gatherings were cancelled due to security concerns in the wake of last week's terrorist attacks.
Despite the horrendous terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday, French officials have vowed to move forward with a major climate conference set to begin on Nov. 30.
Honduras has seen a sudden explosion in tree-killing southern pine beetles this year that some experts blame on El Niño, exacerbated by global warming.
As the world prepares for the most important global climate summit yet in Paris later this month, news from Greenland could add urgency to the negotiations. Another major glacier appears to have begun a rapid retreat into a deep underwater basin, a troubling sign.
"We couldn't be more delighted, because history has repeated itself and the Little Theatre Group's dream has come true again. It materialized this past August in the form of a large house and huge garden in San Rafael, Escazú," said longtime board member Ann Antkiw.
Earth has heated up by 1 degree Celsius (1.6 F), Britain's weather office said Monday, as greenhouse gases hit record levels just weeks before a crucial climate summit in Paris.
Methane emissions from cattle can be cut just by changing their diet. An experiment in France is trying to figure out just how much emissions can be cut, and how to make it profitable for farmers.
