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Thousands of teenagers in Paris join a global strike against climate change, heeding the rallying cry of activist Greta Thunberg and demanding adults act to stop environmental disaster. It is expected to be the biggest protest ever against the threat posed to the planet by climate change. IMAGES
Students in New York City take to the streets to join tens of thousands of teenagers and schoolchildren around the world for a day of protests against climate change. IMAGES
Footage released over the weekend shows thousands of starfish washed up on a beach on the Russian island of Sakhalin near the village of Starodubskoe after a storm shook the area on Thursday night. According to scientists from the Sakhalin Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, the incident is nothing unusual and similar beachings have have happened before afrer heavy storms, but worried locals aren't convinced and have called for an investigation, raising environmental concerns.
Another major tropical storm is ravaging the Caribbean and heading north, with residents living on the US Gulf Coast being put on hurricane, storm surge, and tropical storm watch on Friday. Tropical Storm Nate began ripping through the Nicaraguan town of Juan del Sur on Thursday, destroying boats and infrastructure in its path and pummeling the beaches with waves dozens of feet high. Nate has already been responsible for the deaths of 22 people, mostly due to flash-floods and mudslides brought on by heavy rain.
Damien Alary : la fusion ? Pas dans ces conditions !
Pope Francis spoke out once more about dangers of a global environmental catastrophe, saying that humanity "will go down" if it does not address the issue of climate change as he spoke to press on board his plane on Monday while returning to the Holy See from a trip to Colombia.
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