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US President Joe Biden and China's President Xi Jinping last met on the sidelines of the G20 Summit on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on November 14, 2022

Biden, Xi Set For High-stakes Summit

US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will try to stop the superpowers' rivalry spilling into conflict when they meet for the first time in a year at a high-stakes summit in San Francisco on Wednesday.
US President Joe Biden (R) and China's President Xi Jinping will meet on the sideline of this weeks APEC summit in California

China, US To Launch Working Group On Climate Action

China and the United States will launch a working group on climate cooperation, both countries said Wednesday, as the two sides work to deepen communication and mend fractured ties with a leaders' meeting in San Francisco just hours away.
The Federal Constitutional Court is examining accusations from the main opposition CDU party that Chancellor Olaf Scholz's ruling coalition has acted in contravention to the 'debt brake'

German Govt Spending Plans At Risk As Court Rules

Germany's top court will decide Wednesday whether the government broke debt rules enshrined in the constitution, potentially throwing its spending plans into disarray and further fuelling tensions in the ruling coalition.
Sperm whales are the largest toothed predators on the planet, living in matrilineal societies with distinct cultures and dialects

Dominica To Create World's First Sperm Whale Reserve

Dominica is set to create the world's first sperm whale reserve, designating a swath of ocean where large ships and commercial fishing are restricted and visitors can swim alongside the gentle marine giants.
Two of Tuvalu's nine coral islands have already largely disappeared under the waves, and climate scientists fear the entire archipelago will be uninhabitable within the next 80 years

Australia Offers Tuvalu Citizens Climate Refuge

Citizens of climate-threatened Tuvalu will have the right to live in Australia under a landmark pact unveiled Friday -- an offer of refuge as their Pacific homeland is lost beneath the seas.
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by 22.3% in the twelve months to July, the best result in four years, the government of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva reported on November 9, 2023

Deforestation In Brazilian Amazon Down 22% In A Year

Brazilian Amazon deforestation fell 22.3 percent in the year through July, hitting a five-year low, officials said Thursday, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government fights to curb destruction of the world's biggest rainforest.
A lab technician studies mosquitoes carrying the chikungunya virus in a public health laboratory in Acapulco, Mexico in 2015

US Approves First Vaccine Against Chikungunya Virus

US health authorities on Thursday approved the world's first vaccine for chikungunya, a virus spread by infected mosquitoes that the Food and Drug Administration called "an emerging global health threat."

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