Alister Doyle

Global diets get more similar in threat to food security: study

November 4, 2021 at 1:17 a.m.

OSLO (Reuters) - Increasing similarity in diets worldwide is a threat to health and food security with many people forsaking traditional crops such as cassava, sorghum or millet, an international...

Sun-dimming volcanoes partly explain global warming hiatus-study

August 25, 2021 at 1:52 a.m.

OSLO (Reuters) - Small volcanic eruptions help explain a hiatus in global warming this century by dimming sunlight and offsetting a rise in emissions of heat-trapping gases to record highs,...

Global warming won’t cut winter deaths as hoped: UK study

August 25, 2021 at 1:50 a.m.

OSLO (Reuters) - Global warming will fail to reduce high winter death rates as some officials have predicted because there will be more harmful weather extremes even as it gets...

Global warming won’t cut winter deaths as hoped: UK study

May 14, 2019 at 5:37 a.m.

OSLO (Reuters) - Global warming will fail to reduce high winter death rates as some officials have predicted because there will be more harmful weather extremes even as it gets...

Australia, U.N. spar over wildfires and climate change

August 24, 2021 at 9:46 p.m.

OSLO (Reuters) - Australia's prime minister accused the U.N.'s climate change chief on Wednesday of "talking through her hat" when she drew a link between wildfires raging in his country...

Business urged to do more to save oceans: World Bank study

August 24, 2021 at 9:28 p.m.

OSLO (Reuters) - Businesses should play a bigger role in helping to save depleted fish stocks as part of efforts to prevent irreversible damage to the oceans, a World-Bank backed...

Members of the Tunisian military adjust each other's protective gear as they take part in an exercise simulating a nuclear attack in 2010. Special units from 11 countries took part in the exercise by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

Weapons watchdog wins Nobel Peace Prize for Syrian mission

November 4, 2021 at 12:24 a.m.

OSLO (Reuters) - The global chemical weapons watchdog working to eliminate chemical arms stockpiles around the battlefields of Syria's civil war won the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. The...

Weapons watchdog wins Nobel Peace Prize for Syrian mission

December 24, 2018 at 10:59 a.m.

OSLO (Reuters) - The global chemical weapons watchdog working to eliminate chemical arms stockpiles around the battlefields of Syria's civil war won the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. The...

Nobel Peace Prize glory also has a darker side

May 14, 2019 at 5:15 a.m.

OSLO (Reuters) - Alongside the glory, the Nobel Peace Prize has a darker side likely to make the awards committee think hard before honoring a Pakistani teenage activist shot by...

After softening, ‘Iron Erna’ set to become Norway’s PM

August 24, 2021 at 8:10 p.m.

OSLO (Reuters) - Erna Solberg, set to become Norway's next prime minister, has transformed herself from a tough-minded "Iron Erna" into a softer Conservative more caring about voters' jobs, health...

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