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Shipping containers usually last 15 to 18 years at sea. Their durability and structure make them ideal for transformation. Around the world, these big boxes are being adapted into social housing, … Read More

FRANCE 24’s Sharon Gaffney speaks to Sarah Kent, Chief Sustainability Correspondent at the Business of Fashion, about the bill being debated this week in the French Senate that seeks to … Read More

France’s Senate on Monday debated a bill to regulate the influx of environmentally unfriendly, low-quality clothes into the country, many from China. The lower house of parliament adopted a version … Read More

Intense flooding throughout central Nigeria has left at least 150 people dead and injured dozens more, with teams of rescuers still searching for missing residents caught in the torrential rains. … Read More

Intense flooding throughout central Nigeria has left at least 115 people dead and injured dozens more, with teams of rescuers still searching for missing residents caught in the torrential rains. … Read More

A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier thundered down a Swiss mountainside, sending plumes of dust skyward and burying nearly all of Blatten, an Alpine village that … Read More

An environmentalist who’s been fighting for the protection of Colombia’s Atrato River has spoken to FRANCE 24 about why the waterway is vital for the environment and for the local … Read More

A German court on Monday rejected a Peruvian farmer’s landmark climate case demanding German energy giant RWE pay to protect his hometown from increased flood risk caused by a melting … Read More

The Swiss village of Blatten was largely destroyed on Wednesday as the Birch Glacier collapsed sending a huge avalanche of ice and scree hurtling into the valley where homes and other buildings … Read More

There is a 70 percent chance that average global temperatures will by 2029 exceed the 1.5 degrees Celsius warming benchmark, significantly intensifying heatwaves, extreme precipitation, droughts, and the melting of … Read More