DUABI - Egypt plans to return oil and gas production to normal levels from 2025 with the help of international partners, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said in a press conference on Thursday.
MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused Ukraine of trying to strike Russia's Kursk nuclear power plant in an overnight attack and said Moscow had informed the U.N. nuclear safety watchdog about the situation.
The dolphins were brought ashore for blood tests and other exams.
DUBAI/ATHENS - The crew of Greek-flagged oil tanker the Sounion that was attacked in the Red Sea abandoned the vessel and were taken to Djbouti by the EU's Red Sea naval mission \"Aspides\", an official in the mission told Reuters on Thursday.
The speed at which West Antarctica’s ice disintegrates matters hugely for human civilisation.
BUENOS AIRES - An Argentine federal judge on Monday ordered a three-month suspension of deforestation in northern Chaco province, a rare step to protect one of the world's woodland ecosystems that is most rapidly being destroyed to make way for farmland.
The immediate priority remains cutting emissions as deeply and quickly as possible.
TEAHUPO'O, Tahiti - On the remote south coast of Tahiti, its Jurassic peaks and azure lagoon accessible only by boat, Patrick Rochette is explaining how centuries-old Polynesian conservation traditions are being revived to protect this unique environment.
Ukraine's Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is the largest in Europe.
The Russian management of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant said on Saturday a Ukrainian drone dropped an explosive charge on a road outside the plant, endangering its staff who use the road, the TASS news agency reported.
AMSTERDAM - The International Court of Justice said on Friday it would hold public hearings starting Dec. 2 in an advisory opinion case that may become a reference point in defining countries' legal obligations to fight climate change.
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden on Friday will designate a national monument to commemorate a 1908 race riot in Springfield, Illinois, that left several people dead, hundreds injured and destroyed dozens of Black-owned businesses and homes.
Hurricane Ernesto on Thursday barreled toward Bermuda where it threatened powerful winds, a dangerous storm surge and heavy rains over the weekend after leaving hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans without power in its wake.
TARAWA - Kiribati’s pro-China President retained his parliamentary seat in a landslide, according to the first results of an election that hinged heavily on worries about the cost of living, rising sea levels and closer ties with Beijing.
Scientists said the link between the intense rainfall and a warming planet was clear.
Conditions of a level-four geomagnetic storm were observed on Aug 12.
There are more than a dozen apps aimed at helping users keep tabs on their individual emissions.
Moscow and Kyiv accused each other of starting a fire on the grounds of the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on Sunday, as Ukraine urged residents to remain calm and reported no sign of elevated radiation.
Sicilians have always known drought, but global warming is accentuating its frequency and intensity.
One of the animals was later put down by staff responding to the scene.
SYDNEY - Australia and New Zealand said they would provide A$42.6 million ($28.05 million) for Pacific Island countries, which span millions of kilometres of ocean, to store humanitarian aid in the region to prepare for increasing climate disasters.
CAIRO - The Delta Blue crude oil tanker reported a third and fourth incident in the last 24 hours off Yemen's port of Mokha, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency said on Friday.
MOSCOW - Russian forces were battling Ukrainian troops for a third day on Thursday after they smashed through the Russian border in the Kursk region, an audacious attack on the world's biggest nuclear power that has forced Moscow to call in reserves.
After leaving Antarctic waters, the iceberg got stuck in a vortex over a seamount, or an underwater mountain.
The WHO recommends keeping room temperature at or below 24 deg C during the night.
A wind-driven wildfire on a hillside above the southern California city of San Bernardino burned several homes and forced evacuations before it was brought under control on Tuesday, firefighters reported.
ATLANTA - Tropical Storm Debby inundated coastal Georgia and South Carolina with a deluge of rain on Tuesday that could bring \"catastrophic flooding\" to Charleston, Savannah and other cities in the southeastern United States, the National Hurricane Center said.
Hurricane Debby is expected to slam into the Big Bend region of Florida's Gulf Coast by midday on Monday before slowly crossing the state, causing potentially dangerous storm surges and catastrophic flooding, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.
I read with interest the article “Singapore signs agreement with US to deepen understanding of nuclear reactors, safety” (July 31).
Shanghai’s highest ever temperature was 40.9 deg C, recorded in 1873 and repeated two years ago.
MELBOURNE - Australia's QCoal said on Saturday a worker had died at its Byerwen coking coal mine in the northeastern state of Queensland, but gave no further details.
Climate change is increasing the intensity and frequency of summer heat waves.
The city of Sinuiju and the nearby county of Uiju were hit by torrential rains and floods in the last week of July.
A drought in the region is fanned by climate change.
Coastal cities such as Bangkok, Yangon and Hai Phong are likely to bear the brunt of these more powerful cyclones.
Can incoming president Prabowo ramp up production of palm oil without clearing more land and raising the risk of fires and haze?
NEW YORK - Heavy rain and severe flash floods have swept through parts of northeastern Vermont since Monday night, damaging buildings, washing out roads and prompting rescues, just weeks after the state endured dangerous flooding from Hurricane Beryl.
In the past two days, rainfall led to the Juanshui river levels to rise, breaching three dikes.
I applaud the Land Transport Authority’s recent moves to curb air pollution from vehicle tailpipe emissions by stopping the registration of new diesel cars and taxis from January 2025, and tightening the smoke emissions limit for foreign commercial diesel vehicles from April 2026.
Parks Canada, the federal agency managing the country's national parks, on Monday rejected criticism that it left the town of Jasper vulnerable to wildfires by not removing more trees killed by decades of mountain pine beetle infestation.
Divers began sealing the vessel’s leaking valves on July 27, reducing the amount of oil flowing into the water.
Grenadian Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell on Sunday took over as the new rotating chairman of CARICOM, the regional bloc of the Caribbean, pledging to work for climate justice, reduce gun violence and advance digital technology.
Three tanks at an oil storage depot in Russia's Kursk region caught fire as a result of a Ukraine-launched drone attack, acting regional Governor Alexei Smirnov said on Sunday.
Kyiv has imposed sanctions on Russia's Lukoil that have stopped the company's oil supplies to Slovak and Hungarian refineries.
BEIJING - Typhoon Gaemi lashed towns on China's coastal Fujian province on Friday with heavy rains and strong winds as the most powerful storm to hit the country this year began its widely watched trek into the populous interior.
TOKYO - A panel of Japan's nuclear watchdog decided on Friday against restarting a reactor at the Tsuruga nuclear power plant citing seismic risks, paving the way for the regulator to keep the Japan Atomic Power plant shut.
The world just experienced the hottest day on record and prolonged heat waves have become more common due to climate change, conditions that can alter medications and their effects on patients taking them.
SULMONA, Italy - As it rolls across Italy's central regions, a vintage diesel locomotive towing carriages from the 1930s and 1950s crosses the forests of the Majella National park and the Abruzzo highlands, giving tourists on board a glimpse of hidden hamlets.
16 of the 17 crew members have been rescued.
The area hit by the fire is dominated by the Gargano National Park.
MOSCOW - Hungary and Slovakia have threatened to take Ukraine to court for blocking supplies of oil by Russian producer Lukoil via the Soviet-built Druzhba (Friendship) pipeline, the last remaining route for Russian crude to Europe.
EV prices remain high in Saudi Arabia, where fuel costs are lower than in most countries.
BUDAPEST - Hungary will block European Union refunds for member states that gave munitions to Ukraine until Kyiv allows the transit of oil from Russia's Lukoil through a pipeline over its territory, the Hungarian foreign minister said on Tuesday.
LONDON - Britain failed to set proper objectives in its climate adaptation strategy, environmental campaigners argued on Tuesday in a case which relies on a landmark recent ruling by Europe's top human rights court.
MOSCOW - The Kremlin on Tuesday said that Russia's cooperation with China in the Arctic was not aimed against any other country and said U.S. criticism of such work was misplaced.
The extreme weather raises risks of damage to everything from croplands and coal mines to offshore oil platforms.
CANBERRA - A plan by Australia's federal opposition that would slow the roll-out of renewable power and build a network of nuclear reactors has set the scene for a divisive confrontation on climate policy ahead of an election expected next year.
The first tropical cyclone is expected to make landfall on July 21.
ANKARA - Turkey is set to send navy support to Somali waters after the two countries agreed Ankara will send an exploration vessel off the coast of Somalia to prospect for oil and gas.
MOSCOW - Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Friday called interruptions in Russian oil transit via Ukraine a \"crisis\" for the affected oil buyers, but said there was little scope for talks with the Ukrainian transit firms because the decision had been political.
PRAGUE/BUDAPEST - Slovakia and Hungary said they have stopped receiving oil from key supplier Lukoil after Ukraine imposed a ban last month on the transit of resources from the Russian energy company via its territory.
STRASBOURG - Ursula von der Leyen vowed on Thursday to not weaken Europe's efforts to tackle climate change, if she wins a second five-year term as President of the European Commission, the EU's most powerful body.
MADRID - Spain will suffer its first heatwave of the summer starting on Thursday, the meteorology service AEMET said, as the government kicked off on Wednesday a heat risk awareness campaign for people working mostly outside.
ATHENS - The Greek navy this week extended an advisory effectively banning ship traffic off the coast of the southeastern Peloponnese and further, in a bid to deter ship-to-ship transfers of Russian oil off Greece, three sources said.
KYIV - An abnormal heatwave seen in Ukraine in the last few weeks will begin to ease on Thursday making way for rain in most of the country, the state weather forecaster said on Wednesday.
Some residents have had enough after back-to-back storms, power outages.
VALENCIA, Spain - The city council of Valencia, Spain, on Tuesday closed three beaches on the Mediterranean coast after oil or fuel from a spill washed up on a 2-km (1.2-mile) line of sand. The cause of the spill was not immediately clear.
CAIRO - Liberia-flagged oil tanker Chios Lion was assessing damage and investigating a potential oil spill after it was attacked by Yemen's Houthis in the Red Sea, the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Joint Maritime Information Center (JMIC) said on Tuesday.
DUBAI - Oman's maritime security center told Reuters on Tuesday the Prestige Falcon, a Comoros-flagged oil tanker, had capsized off the major industrial port of Duqm.
LONDON - A Chevron-chartered oil tanker seized by Iran more than a year ago has dropped anchor near the United Arab Emirates port of Khor Fakkan, ship tracking data showed on Monday.
BRUSSELS - The European Union will pressure other countries at this year’s COP29 climate summit to follow through on their pledge to transition away from fossil fuels, a draft of the bloc’s negotiating position seen by Reuters showed.
A Chevron-chartered oil tanker seized by Iran more than a year ago is heading toward the Sohar port in Oman, LSEG ship tracking data showed on Friday.
The leaders of small Caribbean island nations on Thursday said that financial damages wrought by the passage of Hurricane Beryl would run beyond their capacities and urged lenders to ease financing to address the worsening impacts of climate change.
WASHINGTON - The U.S., Canada and Finland will form a consortium to build icebreaker ships, a senior U.S. administration official said, a move intended to bolster the allies' shipbuilding and counter Russia and China in increasingly strategic polar regions.
ERBIL, Iraq - Heading for Turkey to the north and Iran to the east, hundreds of oil tankers snake each day from near Kurdistan's capital Erbil, clogging the Iraqi region's often winding and mountainous highways.
CO2 emissions from the power sector fell 3.6 per cent in May because of the increase in green energy generation.
GUWAHATI, India - More than 150 animals, nine of them rare one-horned rhinoceros, have drowned in floods at the Kaziranga National Park in India's northeastern state of Assam, authorities said.
Leaders across the Caribbean were still tallying the financial toll wrought by the earliest Atlantic storm on record to intensify to the maximum Category 5 level, after it left a trail of destruction on Jamaica and islands of the eastern Caribbean.
The social and economic impacts of this boom have provoked reactions around the world.
Such severe heat in the middle of Japan’s rainy season is “rather rare”, a weather agency official said.
One person was killed, while two power substations and an oil depot caught fire, after Ukraine launched tens of drones in attacks on several regions, Russian officials said on Tuesday.
Hurricane Beryl lashed Texas with strong winds and heavy rain on Monday as it churned inland, forcing the closure of oil ports, the cancellation of hundreds of flights and leaving thousands of homes and businesses in the state without power.
Tropical Storm Beryl could grow into a Category 2 hurricane by the time it makes landfall in the Houston area early on Monday as it regains strength moving northwest over the Gulf of Mexico, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.
It has claimed at least 11 lives, tearing apart buildings while felling power lines and trees.
Google recently said AI was responsible for a 48 per cent rise in its greenhouse gas emissions.
Before reaching Mexico, Hurricane Beryl wreaked havoc in the Caribbean.
Indonesia has roughly 5.1 million hectares of coral reefs and accounts for 18 per cent of the world's total.
LIMA - The presidents of Peru and Ecuador pledged to join efforts to fight transnational organized crime and also discussed new possibilities for oil processing, Peruvian Dina Boluarte said on Thursday.
Scientists say climate change is making the monsoon stronger and more erratic.
BEIJING - China's weather bureau warned on Thursday that a prolonged heatwave forecast in the country's eastern, central and southern regions in July may hit production of rice and cotton, as extreme weather continues to threaten its food production.
WELLINGTON - Antarctica New Zealand has come up with a new, smaller proposal for the redevelopment of the country's base in Antarctica, the government institute said on Thursday, after a previous plan was paused due to a budget blow out.
NIAMEY - Niger's junta has agreed to talks with Benin's government, led by two former Benin presidents, to help restore relations after a coup in Niger last year led to the border closing and a China-backed oil pipeline shutting down.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that Kyiv planned to submit a resolution on nuclear safety, in particular at the Russia-occupied Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, for consideration at the United Nations General Assembly.
Climate change is making rapid intensification of hurricanes more common, scientists say.
Powerful Hurricane Beryl barreled towards Jamaica on Tuesday as the 2024 Atlantic season's first hurricane and the earliest storm on record to reach the strongest possible ranking: Category 5.
Questions on the Government's response to the oil spill prompted three ministerial statements made on the issue.
ISTANBUL - Turkey is holding talks with the United States on the construction of large-scale nuclear power plants and small modular reactors (SMR), senior Turkish Energy Ministry official Yusuf Ceylan said on Tuesday.
Economic losses can also be assessed for insurance claims.
Beryl jumped from a Category 1 to a Category 4 storm in less than 10 hours.
BAGHDAD - Iraq said on Monday it had arrested three people linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and suspected of planning attacks across the country, including on a key oil export pipeline in the north.
Tapping wind and solar potential could help both nations meet electricity demand and cut emissions.
More than 43 tonnes of oil-contaminated waste have been collected from the Johor coastline.
Forecasters were warning it will swiftly become a major storm.
Climate crisis-driven sweltering summers in Europe are now a reality for tourists.
Berlin aims to phase out fossil fuels in its heating system by 2045.
They align on climate change, housing, immigration and EU relations, experts say.
Holidaying with friends helped the writer overcome her fear of trekking on slopes.
BRUSSELS - European Union lawmakers have split over whether to delay the bloc's upcoming ban on imports of goods linked to deforestation, adding pressure to Ursula von der Leyen as she seeks their backing for a second term as European Commission president.
The national park and the Gunung Ledang waterfall are closed to the public from June 27-July 10.
Floods and landslides have ravaged parts of the country over almost two weeks.
MOSCOW - Ukrainian shelling destroyed a radiation control post in Velyka Znamyanka in the Zaporizhzhia region, Russia's management of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine said on Wednesday.
SAO PAULO - Record floods that killed over 170 people and displaced half a million in southern Brazil are a warning sign of more disasters to come throughout the Americas because of climate change, an official at the United Nations' refugee agency said on Tuesday.
The risk to sea-level rise comes when the accelerated melting outpaces the formation of new ice on the continent.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that Ukraine has hit more than 30 Russian oil processing and storage facilities.
The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog called on Sunday for a halt to attacks on Enerhodar, a town near the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station after drone strikes this week hit two electricity substations serving the area.
The first phase of clean-up works at oil-tainted beaches near Sungai Rengit beach is near completion.
Game animals release less methane than cattle, a top source of global warming emissions from agriculture.
Russian-installed officials said on Friday that Ukrainian drone attacks had put out of action two electricity substations in Enerhodar, the town serving the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station and cut power to most of its residents.
Scientists say climate change makes extreme weather more frequent and intense.
Oil slicks have spread to the waters of Pengerang in Johor, which is less than one hour away from Singapore by ferry.
The case is one of several by young activists in the US targeting polluting policies that worsen climate change.
It is a sign that climate change may again help to fuel record-breaking heat.
BELGRADE - People braving scorching temperatures sought relief in Belgrade's Ada Ciganlija lake, fountains and cafes on Thursday while the Serbian government ordered employers to protect outdoor workers from the heatwave.
Heat-related deaths during the haj are not new, but the situation will get much worse as the world warms.
China looks to be readying actions to punish the EU for its proposed tariffs on electric cars.
MEXICO CITY - Tropical Storm Alberto, the first named storm of 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, has formed over the western Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Wednesday, bringing coastal flooding across the southern U.S. coast.
MOSCOW - A blaze at an oil depot in the town of Azov in Russia's southern region of Rostov has been raging for more than 24 hours, local emergency services said on Wednesday.
Human-caused climate change is heating up the planet at an alarming rate.
The conflict in Gaza has created unprecedented soil, water and air pollution in the region, destroying sanitation systems and leaving tons of debris from explosive devices, a United Nations report on the environmental impact of the war said on Tuesday.
Several oil storage tanks were on fire after a drone attack early on Tuesday in the town of Azov in Russia's southern region of Rostov, officials said.
BRUSSELS - The next European Commission must do more to help European industry catch up in the green tech race with China and the U.S., said Spain's climate and energy minister Teresa Ribera, a front-runner to be the EU's next head of green policies.
Southeast Asian nations have suffered under heat waves recently, with temperatures soaring to records.
The cycle between El Nino, La Nina, and a neutral phase typically lasts two to seven years.
It adds to evidence that climate change and other human activities are making marine mammals smaller.
The EU warned that it would slap additional tariffs on Chinese electric car imports from July.
BONN - With just five months to go before this year's U.N. climate summit, countries cannot agree on the size of a global funding bill to help the developing world fight climate change - let alone how to split it.
KYIV - Russia's invasion of Ukraine has directly caused or paved the way to the emission of 175 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere, a joint report said on Thursday.
The heatwave in Greece is due to peak on June 12 and 13.
MANILA - Just weeks after thousands of Filipino students were sent home from sweltering classrooms during a brutal heatwave, the country’s schools are bracing for a new climate change challenge ahead of the start of the typhoon season in South-east Asia.
Scientists said the heatwaves were made worse - and more likely - by human-caused climate change.
Restoration contracts will be awarded in July for less severely damaged spots.
Atmospheric levels of harmful gases responsible for holes in the ozone layer peaked five years early in 2021.
Climate change creates warmer conditions that help invasive mosquitos spread.
HANOI - Flash floods have killed at least three people and left one missing in northern Vietnam since Saturday night, the government said on Monday, and more heavy rains are expected over the coming days.
The government’s top weather expert warned that people will face increasingly oppressive temperatures.
Colombia is Israel’s main coal supplier with exports of some US$450 million (S$608 million) in 2023.
UNICEF, the U.N. children's agency, appealed on Friday for international aid to help prepare violence-plagued Haiti for a dangerous Atlantic hurricane season that could be deadly for the island's many displaced people.
Under the plan, financial institutions would fund the early retirement of coal plants, rather than divest from these assets.
Thai authorities said that it is the biggest herd of dugongs ever spotted in the area.
Total energy investment is expected to exceed $4 trillion for the first time in 2024.
ZURICH - Switzerland's upper house of parliament on Wednesday slammed a recent ruling by a top European court that pressed the country to do more to combat global warming, arguing that Swiss authorities were already doing enough to address the threat.
MEXICO CITY - Mexico's President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum, an accomplished climate scientist, could struggle to fulfill her environmental pledges after she sailed to victory, in part, on the popularity of a predecessor who doubled down on fossil fuels.
SAO PAULO - Climate change made the recent flooding that devastated southern Brazil twice as likely, a team of international scientists said on Monday, adding that the heavy rains were also intensified by the natural El Nino phenomenon.
The floods have killed at least two people.
Younger workers in unexpected places are pressing their firms to take serious action on emissions.
Artur Chilingarov, a Russian polar scientist and explorer and veteran member of parliament, died on Saturday, the speaker of the state Duma lower house said. He was 84.
OSLO - Norway plans to increase its control of infrastructure on the Arctic Svalbard islands, the government said on Friday as security concerns and climate change impact the archipelago.
Thailand is looking to diversify its energy mix amid dwindling reserves of natural gas.
KYIV - Missiles fired by the Ukrainian navy struck an oil terminal at the Russian port of Kavkaz in the Krasnodar region on Friday, the Ukrainian military said via the Telegram messaging app.
An oil depot in the Krasnodar region was on fire and people were injured after Ukraine's air strike early on Friday targeting oil facilities, the governor of the southern Russian region said.
MOSCOW - Natalia Komarova, the governor of Siberia's oil-rich Khanty-Mansiisk region who was last year criticised for remarks she made about the war in Ukraine, announced on Thursday that she was resigning from her post.
China also set a target for making economic growth more energy efficient.
Cyclone Remal made landfall on May 26 and moved slowly inland, causing floods and landslides.
LONDON - The growing shadow fleet of tankers transporting sanctioned Iranian, Venezuelan and Russian oil is filling up with the cheapest fuel available, hindering industry efforts to use cleaner fuel to cut shipping emissions, according to shipping data and sources.
Despite warming ties, they don't entirely see eye-to-eye on Pyongyang's nuclear weapons arsenal.
Tens of millions of people living in coastal areas around the Caribbean and Latin America face imminent risks to healthcare and key infrastructure as climate change brings more severe weather events, according to a United Nations report on Tuesday.
In the last 12 months, some 6.3 billion people experienced at least 31 days of extreme heat.
This year, heat waves have sent temperatures soaring in Tabasco and much of Mexico.
The president of this decade's summit for Small Island Developing States on Monday blasted \"empty\" and \"grossly inadequate\" climate pledges, saying wealthy nations have failed to meet obligations to limit damages from carbon emissions.
TASHKENT - Russia will build a small nuclear power plant in Uzbekistan, the first such project in post-Soviet Central Asia, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said on Monday at a meeting with visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin.
A signal of support from the US government could help unlock greater demand for controversial carbon credits.
Temperatures are expected to soar further amid predictions of a severe heatwave.
MOSCOW - Russia said on Thursday that the main power line supplying the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP) in Ukraine had gone down, but that there was no threat to safety and the plant was being supplied via a backup line.
Major climate cases could shake up the legal landscape and strengthen the hand of the courts to punish big polluters.
Climate change is set to make flights more bumpy, though commercial aircraft are generally equipped to handle it
Philanthropy’s nimble and risk-tolerant capital also serves as an incubator for innovation.
Opinion will not be legally binding but it can bolster climate-linked litigation.
Probe comes as CFTC homes in on its first set of US federal guidelines for voluntary carbon credits derivatives.
MOSCOW - Ukraine fired nine U.S. ATACMS at Crimea and attacked Russian regions with at least 60 drones in a major attack that forced one oil refinery in southern Russia to halt operations, Russian officials said on Sunday.
Dams pose a major threat to wildlife and livelihoods around the Mekong River, adding to the strain caused by overfishing, pollution and climate change. Insight looks at how local communities are fighting to protect what’s left.
LONDON - Britain announced sanctions on Friday against three companies and one individual over what it called the \"illicit ‘arms-for-oil’ trade\" between Russia and North Korea.
A severe storm packing hurricane-force winds pummeled Houston on Thursday, killing at least four people, blowing windows out of high-rise buildings and leaving some 800,000 homes without power as much of the city was plunged into darkness, the mayor said.
People killed by weekend flash floods and mud slides.
People went missing due to flash floods and mud slides.
A large wildfire is slowly approaching the major Canadian oil sands city of Fort McMurray.
La Nina typically brings wetter weather to eastern Australia and south-east Asia.
The disaster has killed at least 147 people, with 127 still missing.
JAKARTA - Heavy rain brought floods and landslides to Indonesia's province of West Sumatra, killing at least 28, with four still missing, authorities said on Sunday.
MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday gave extra duties to two key government officials who oversee the defence industry and energy sectors, as the Kremlin chief girds the world's second-largest oil exporter for a longer war in Ukraine.
KABUL - The death toll from devastating flash floods in northern Afghanistan has risen to 153 people across three provinces, the Taliban's interior ministry said on Saturday.
A Ukrainian strike late on Friday killed three people, injured seven and triggered a large fire at an oil storage depot in Ukraine's occupied Luhansk region, Russian news agencies quoted Russia-installed officials in the region said.
This is the first time since January 2005 the US Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a G4 geomagnetic storm watch.
SAN JOSE - Struck by the worst drought in five decades, Costa Rica announced an electricity rationing plan on Thursday, blaming a severe lack of rainfall that has hobbled hydroelectric plants.
MOSCOW - Russia's Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat oil processing, petrochemical and fertiliser complex located in the Bashkiria region was attacked by a drone but is functioning as usual, Radiy Khabirov, the region's head, said on his Telegram channel on Thursday.
Ukrainian forces attacked an oil storage depot and sparked a large fire, injuring five people late on Tuesday on the outskirts of the Russian-held city of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, the region's Russia-installed leader said.
CORDOBA PROVINCE, Argentina - Global warming has brought Argentina's corn farmers a dangerous new enemy: a yellow insect just four millimeters (0.16 inch) long that thrives in hotter temperatures and is threatening harvests of the crop. Meet the leafhopper.
LONDON - Three of the biggest global health funders have joined forces for the first time in a $300 million partnership aimed at tackling the linked impacts of climate change, malnutrition, and infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance.
New Zealand said on Saturday that its Antarctic agency signed a memorandum of understanding with Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute to foster cooperation between the two polar science bodies, amid China's growing presence in Antarctica.
A heatwave that has sent the mercury in Myanmar to 48 deg C in some places.
But the output of the country’s key cash crop, oil palm, may be hit.
MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine on Thursday of trying to strike Russia's Kursk nuclear power station in an overnight attack.
MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused Ukraine of trying to strike Russia's Kursk nuclear power plant in an overnight attack and said Moscow had informed the U.N. nuclear safety watchdog about the situation.
At least two people have died and hundreds of thousands are stranded in the floods.
Despite a steep drop in permits, construction began on more than 41GW of coal projects in the first half of 2024.
MOSCOW - Airports in Russia's Arctic cities of Murmansk and Apatity resumed operations after a brief airspace closure on Wednesday, the aviation watchdog Rosaviatsia said.
ROME - Global warming may have contributed to the freak storm that sank a luxury British-flagged yacht off the coast of Sicily on Monday, Italian climatologist Luca Mercalli told Reuters.
Ernesto regained hurricane strength on Sunday and the storm was causing dangerous rip currents on beaches along the U.S. East Coast and Canada, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
CARACAS - An oil spill, which appeared to originate from Venezuela's El Palito refinery several days ago, has contaminated a bay off the country's north-central coast in the Caribbean Sea, five sources told Reuters on Saturday.
HARARE - About 68 million people in Southern Africa are suffering the effects of an El Nino-induced drought which has wiped out crops across the region, the regional bloc SADC said on Saturday.
BERMUDA - Hurricane Ernesto was weakening as it closed in on Bermuda early on Saturday, downgraded to a Category 1 storm but still threatening the British island territory with powerful winds, a dangerous storm surge and potentially deadly flooding.
Hurricane Ernesto barreled toward Bermuda on Friday morning as a powerful Category 2 storm that was likely to produce a foot of rainfall over the weekend and trigger life-threatening flooding and storm surges.
Microsoft will buy the carbon credits produced by the projects.
Asian Insider brings you insights into a fast-changing region from our network of correspondents and commentators.
The remote Pacific Island nation of Kiribati holds a national election on Wednesday at which major issues for voters are the government's close ties to China and a softer stance on global climate advocacy, competing with cost of living pressures.
Fire at cooling tower of Zaporizhzhia nuclear plantKyiv and Moscow traded blame on Aug 11 after a fire broke out at a cooling tower of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, under the control of Russian forces.
Climate change, costs and a shrinking pool of host cities threaten the Games’ future.
Rangers who investigated the area spotted a slingshot in plain view in a vehicle at the campground.
APUI, Brazil - Fire brigades in the Brazilian Amazon are battling blazes off to their worst start in 20 years for the rainforest, according to government satellite data, following a record-breaking drought aggravated by global warming.
We thank Mr Irwan Jamil for his Forum letter “Many benefits from including nuclear power in energy model” (Aug 5).
Climate change has been blamed for falling rocks in the French Alps because of a thaw in permafrost.
ATLANTA - Tropical Storm Debby made landfall early on Thursday and is forecast to dump even more rain on the South Carolina coast, prompting fears of flash flooding in areas already soaked by the slow-moving weather system.
China General Nuclear Power Corp opened an online booking system to allow tourists to plan visits to nine nuclear power stations.
SAO PAULO - Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rose in July, breaking a 15-month streak of falling destruction under President Luiz Inacio da Silva, preliminary government data show, amid a strike by environmental workers.
Several parts of East Coast Park have also reopened for land-based activities.
SEOUL - South Korean farmer Ma Myung-sun had low expectations for the crop of subtropical bananas he planted in a community farm in Seoul, but warmer temperatures due to climate change have produced a welcome surprise in the form of flowers and fruit.
The hurricane centre forecast life-threatening conditions, including storm surges up to 3 metres in some areas.
The director of the National Hurricane Center urged people to follow evacuation orders.
KYIV - Ukraine's military said on Saturday it had attacked Russia's Morozovsk airfield and a number of oil depots and fuel storage facilities in three Russian regions overnight.
ZAMZAM CAMP, Sudan - A famine-stricken camp in Sudan's conflict-torn Darfur region is facing a \"significant\" new influx of displaced people while floods threaten to contaminate water and sanitation facilities, according to satellite imagery published on Friday.
BEIJING - Rescuers in China scrambled on Friday to locate dozens of people still missing a week after the year's most powerful typhoon roared into the southern province of Hunan, while emergency workers rushed to seal breached dykes on swollen rivers.
The centre sterilises and releases about 45,000 male mosquitoes weekly.
BUDAPEST - A group of protesting Hungarian farmers lead two camels through downtown Budapest on Thursday, heading to the farm ministry in a bid to raise awareness of the severe impact of climate change on Hungary's agricultural sector.
Paris would have been about 3 deg C cooler If the atmosphere wasn’t overloaded with emissions
Such events are being increasingly affected by heatwaves, floods and poor air pollution from wildfires.
KYIV - Ukraine guarantees oil transit for companies that are not subject to sanctions and is ready to resolve transit issues with Slovakia in line with a European Union association agreement, a deputy energy minister said on Tuesday.
HANOI - Five coal miners have been killed after a mine in northern Vietnam collapsed, local authorities said on Tuesday.
That means a record amount of carbon dioxide entered Earth's atmosphere in 2023.
TANZA, Philippines - An oil spill from a marine tanker that capsized off the coast of Manila Bay in the Philippines has reached the shores of a nearby fishing village, threatening the health and livelihood of fishermen, as efforts began to mop up the fuel.
Methane is responsible for about one-third of warming from greenhouse gases.
Divers will try to seal nine leaking valves first before attempting to syphon the oil.
The oil slick has more than tripled in size from July 25.
Slovakia and Hungary said they stopped receiving oil from Russian group Lukoil via Ukraine.
The coast guard is scrambling to head off what could be the worst oil spill in its history.
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa, the world's 14th biggest carbon emitter, has made strong commitments to climate action but is moving too slowly to wean itself off coal and roll out renewables to meet them, a key report said on Thursday.
Typhoon Gaemi and the massive floods it set off hit hard those already eking hardscrabble lives.
The pipeline runs through a national park in the Canadian Rockies.
Torrential rain triggered widespread floods in the Philippine capital and surrounding areas.
MOSCOW - Russia on Wednesday accused Washington of stoking tensions in the Arctic and dismissed assertions from the U.S. military that increasing cooperation between Russia and China in the area could impact regional stability.
JOHANNESBURG - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed into law a broad climate change act that will set caps for large emitters and require every town and city to publish an adaptation plan.
Germany must improve its air pollution control programme and ensure it complies with EU requirements, the Berlin-Brandenburg Higher Administrative Court said on Tuesday.
MOSCOW - Russia's Tuapse oil refinery is still operating, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Tuesday, a day after local authorities reported that the refinery had been damaged in a Ukrainian drone attack.
The court must determine whether the UK govt’s policy to adapt to climate change is lawful.
WASHINGTON - Russia and China are increasingly cooperating in the Arctic region, which could impact regional stability, the U.S. military said as it released its strategy for the Arctic region on Monday.
Russia's Black Sea Tuapse oil refinery, owned by oil major Rosneft, was damaged in a Ukrainian drone attack overnight, officials from the Krasnodar region said on Monday.
Slovakia and Hungary said they had stopped receiving oil from key Russian supplier Lukoil.
BUDAPEST - Ukraine's decision to halt the transit of oil from Russia's Lukoil threatens the long-term security of supply for Slovakia and Hungary, Hungary's Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told a news briefing on Friday.
ATHENS - Yannis Asimakopoulos has worked as a food delivery driver in Athens for 17 years and cannot recall a hotter summer as a new heatwave gripped Greece this week.
SPLIT, Croatia - Tourists in their hundreds of thousands are seeking relief this week from Croatia's scorching heatwave in the Adriatic Sea, although water temperatures are also touching all-time highs.
MAALE GILBOA, Israel - Maale Gilboa, a remote kibbutz on a rocky hilltop in northern Israel, was an unlikely spot to build a farming community let alone the future of Israel's energy supply.
ATHENS - Greece shut the Acropolis, its most visited ancient site, for several hours in the afternoon on Wednesday as the country baked in yet another heatwave that sent temperatures up to 38 degrees Celsius (100.4°F).
BELGRADE - The Balkans, along with much of Europe, continued to swelter in a prolonged heatwave on Wednesday, triggering forest fires and drying up a Serbian lake for the first time, as a meteorologist warned such heatwaves could become more regular.
KIBATI, Democratic Republic of Congo - Under the denuded slopes of Mount Nyiragongo volcano in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, traders in Kibati town bartered over sacks of charcoal, a product of deforestation that an ongoing conflict has pushed to unprecedented levels, the United Nations says.
Individual heat spells, storms, floods, droughts and wildfires are now routinely tied to global warming.
The show must go on despite the carbon footprint.
ROSTOV REGION, Russia - Under the sweltering sun and in temperatures of 50 degrees Celsius, farmers in the Rostov region, Russia's breadbasket, toil to salvage a harvest battered by heatwave, frosts and floods.
KYIV - Ukrainian power grid operator Ukrenergo has started emergency shutdowns of some consumers in seven regions amid a record heatwave and after the failure of power equipment, the company said on Tuesday.
PRETORIA - South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa warned other developing nations on Monday that future carbon taxes proposed by rich countries would damage their economies unless they act swiftly to ditch fossil fuels in favour of green energy.
HOUSTON - About a million homes and businesses in Texas remained without power on Friday, five days after Hurricane Beryl made landfall, with fierce winds and rain that knocked down trees and electricity infrastructure.
Ninety-nine countries vote in favour, nine are against and 60 abstain.
A Chevron-chartered oil tanker that was seized by Iran more than a year ago was heading for international waters on Thursday, LSEG ship tracking data showed.
CAPE TOWN - Salvage operations were in high-gear on Thursday to prevent a potential oil spill and pollution along South Africa's west coast from a grounded general cargo vessel, authorities said.
Houston’s healthcare system was overwhelmed because some patients could not be discharged amid a heatwave.
OTTAWA - Canada, looking to shore up its defense of the Arctic, is moving ahead to acquire up to 12 submarines and has started a formal process to meet with manufacturers, the defense ministry said on Wednesday.
From 2030, methane emissions caused by flatulence from cattle and pigs will be taxed at a rate of 300 kroner (S$58.72) per tonne of CO2 equivalent.
MOSCOW - Russia and India agreed to increase cooperation in sectors ranging from nuclear power to shipbuilding and discussed how to fix payments problems as their leaders met in Moscow on Tuesday.
Scores of deer have also been killed in recent days.
The agreement is the fourth “debt-for-nature” swop the two countries have struck since 2009.
Storm Beryl kills two, knocks out power as it churns across Texas Tropical Storm Beryl’s howling winds and torrential rain killed at least two people, closed oil ports, grounded hundreds of flights and knocked out power to more than 2 million homes and businesses in southeast Texas on July 8.
Human-caused climate change and the El Nino weather phenomenon both pushed temperatures to record highs.
China has been on a tear, installing increasingly larger and record amounts of green energy in recent years.
Port closures could bring to a temporary halt shipments of crude oil to refineries and motor fuels from those plants.
BRUSSELS - The European Union has resisted calls from some industries and countries to delay its flagship policy to fight deforestation, a letter seen by Reuters on Friday showed.
GENEVA - Hurricane Beryl caused devastating damage in several Caribbean islands, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said on Friday as the Category 3 storm churned towards Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.
The storm has already left a trail of destruction across the Caribbean and the coast of Venezuela.
One study showed annual food inflation rates could rise by up to 3.2 percentage points per year.
The hot weather triggered soaring demand for air conditioners and fans.
BEIJING - China's President Xi Jinping made a congratulatory call on Thursday to incoming European Council President Antonio Costa, Chinese state media said, a few hours before European Commission curbs on Chinese electric cars are scheduled to take effect.
Widening climate extremes have plunged the US West Coast into near-constant whiplash between catastrophic floods and raging wildfires.
MOSCOW - A Ukrainian drone attack injured eight workers from the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and left a nearby town largely without power and water, Russian-backed officials said on Wednesday.
China has been enduring extreme weather conditions in recent months, including heat waves.
The US President noted that extreme heat is the deadliest weather-related hazard in the country.
BRIDGETOWN - Hurricane Beryl barreled towards Jamaica as a powerful Category 5 storm on Tuesday after making landfall on smaller islands in the Caribbean, downing power lines, bringing floods and reportedly killing two people.
GENEVA - Hurricane Beryl, which has strengthened to a Category 5 storm, is setting the tone for a \"very dangerous\" hurricane season, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Tuesday.
China has a track record of ceasing to disclose numbers that shine a light on trouble spots in its economy.
Thundery showers on June 14 and oil slicks possibly going below the water's surface made detection harder.
Two natural gas fields and two reservoirs were found in the Kingdom’s Empty Quarter.
Hurricane Beryl barrelled across the Atlantic Ocean toward the Caribbean's Windward Islands as an \"extremely dangerous\" storm on Monday, threatening to devastate communities with floods, storm surges and life-threatening high winds, officials said.
The \"extremely dangerous\" Category 4 storm Hurricane Beryl barrelled across the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday afternoon toward the Caribbean's Windward Islands, where it is expected to bring life-threatening winds and flash flooding on Monday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
Hurricane warnings have been issued in Barbados, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadine Islands, Grenada and Tobago.
The 2.73km cable car ride to the peak about 700m above sea level will take under 10 minutes.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Saturday that tropical storm Beryl has intensified into a hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean, and cautioned that it may undergo rapid strengthening as it approaches the Caribbean island of Barbados.
A Ukrainian drone attack caused a fire to break out at an oil reservoir for Russia's Druzhba pipeline in the Tambov region southeast of Moscow on Friday, but the blaze was extinguished within hours, news agencies cited local authorities as saying.
Climate change has made heatwaves hotter, more frequent and longer lasting.
MEXICO CITY - Mexican President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum named close ally and former Mexico City finance chief Luz Elena Gonzalez as incoming energy minister, tasking her with revitalizing a struggling state oil company and increasing the use of renewables.
Wildfires above the Arctic Circle in June have unleashed carbon emissions that are the third highest for the time of year in two decades of monitoring, European scientists said on Thursday.
Many had no access to vital services like air-conditioned buses and cool-off tents.
Climate experiments rightly raise hackles but we need to find out whether these fixes could work
Crowd control and heatwaves fuelled by climate change are on a dangerous collision course.
JAKARTA - A former chief executive of Indonesia's state energy firm Pertamina has been sentenced to nine years in jail for graft in a case related to a long-term contract to procure liquefied natural gas from a unit of U.S. company Cheniere Energy.
Unesco warned that the world’s largest coral system "remains under serious threat".
MOSCOW - Russia, the world's biggest nuclear power, has started updating its nuclear doctrine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday, citing an earlier statement by President Vladimir Putin.
The hope is that burying millions of tonnes of the gas will curb climate change.
MOSCOW - Russia, the world's biggest nuclear power, could reduce the decision-making time stipulated in official policy for the use of nuclear weapons if Moscow believes that threats are increasing, parliament's defence committee chairman said.
ZURICH - Emergency services with helicopters, drones and rescue dogs searched on Saturday for three people who were missing after violent downpours caused floods and landslides in southwestern Switzerland.
High cost, long construction time and existing government ban make it a high-stakes political gamble.
KYIV - Ukrainian long-range attack drones struck four Russian oil refineries as well as radar stations and other military targets in Russia in a major attack in the early hours of Friday, Kyiv's military said.
MOSCOW - A drone crashed into the Ilsky oil refinery in Russia's southern Krasnodar region on Friday, injuring at least two people and causing a small fire, local authorities said.
Alberto, the first named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, has weakened into a tropical depression as it moves inland over northeastern Mexico, bringing more heavy rains and flooding after leaving four dead, including three children.
While Singapore strives to improve its recycling efforts, the United States and many European countries have achieved remarkable success in reducing waste and promoting sustainability, thanks to their well-established recycling infrastructure (Singapore’s domestic recycling rate stalls at 12%, the lowest in over a decade, June 19).
Two activists sprayed orange paint on two private jets, the climate protest group said.
Poll findings are an important signal for the next round of national climate pledges under the Paris Agreement due in 2025.
NEW DELHI/GUWAHATI - India recorded more than 40,000 suspected heatstroke cases this summer as a prolonged heatwave killed more than 100 people across the country, while parts of its north-east grappled with floods from heavy rain, authorities said.
Air pollution has overtaken tobacco use and poor diet as second-leading risk factor for early death.
Australia’s science agency has warned costly nuclear reactors would take at least 15 years to build.
MOSCOW - Ukraine has been systematically targeting Russian energy infrastructure to try to disrupt Russia's economy and its ability to fund its military effort.
BEIJING - Flash floods in China's Changji on Tuesday engulfed a car, and four people are missing, Chinese state media reported, as heavy rains and mudslides in several parts of the country cause widespread destruction and trigger mass evacuations.
COPENHAGEN - Denmark is considering ways to limit a so-called shadow fleet of tankers from carrying Russian oil through the Baltic Sea, the Nordic country's foreign minister said on Monday, in a move that could heighten tensions with Moscow.
The US Department of Energy did not comment on the report.
South-East Asia has big plans to become a regional carbon storage hub. Can it work or are the risks too great?
Negotiators at the COP29 climate talks in November must agree on a larger climate finance target.
LONDON - Britain on Thursday imposed its first sanctions targeting vessels in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s \"shadow fleet\" that it said was used to circumvent Western sanctions and continue trade in Russian oil.
The EU said it will impose extra duties of up to 38.1% on imported Chinese electric cars from July.
OTTAWA - A team of divers in Atlantic Canada has found the Quest, the ship on which renowned polar explorer Ernest Shackleton died in 1922, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society said on Wednesday.
BERN - The lower house of the Swiss parliament voted on Wednesday to reject a ruling ordering Switzerland to do more to combat global warming in a move that could encourage others to resist the influence of international courts.
N2O emissions have spiked by 40 per cent in past four decades.
The other three industries – tobacco, fossil fuel and alcohol – were also blamed for the deaths.
Canada is expecting a hotter-than-usual summer with slightly below-average precipitation in central Canada, government officials said on Tuesday, offering little relief from ongoing drought and the risk of another bad wildfire season.
MOSCOW - Russian marine specialists are racing to save a humpback whale which has become entangled in a fishing net north of the Arctic circle.
The agency emphasised that forests are key in regulating climate, air and water quality.
There may be some setbacks, but these are unlikely to derail the EU’s 2050 net zero emissions target.
The study comes as much of the western US are sweltering under the first heatwave of the year.
PM Wong said he will also do more and better in his own public outreach.
Critics say aquafarming can damage the environment and put disease and invasive species into the wild.
Building nuclear power plants is costly so the industry is focusing on retrofitting existing ones.
COTONOU/NIAMEY - A prosecutor in Benin said authorities had detained on Wednesday five Niger nationals for allegedly entering Benin's Seme-Kpodji pipeline terminal under false pretences, deepening a dispute over exports of crude oil from Niger via Benin.
LONDON - A group of prominent former emerging market finance chiefs is pressing global leaders to incorporate external shocks and climate change into debt sustainability calculations, according to a letter published on Wednesday.
PARIS - By 2050, humanity must durably remove four times as much CO2 from the air as today to cap global warming below the crucial target of 2 deg C, researchers said on June 4.
Japan set out to cut carbon emissions to net zero by 2050.
BHUBANESWAR, India - India's unusually severe heatwave this summer is suspected to have killed more than 100 people and made tens of thousands ill, authorities and media reports said, while parts of the country were also battered by a recent cyclone and heavy rains.
But global temperatures would continue to rise in the long term due to human-induced climate change.
MOSCOW - A fire on Sunday at an oil refinery owned by Lukoil near Ukhta in Russia's northwestern Komi Republic caused fatalities, authorities said, but did not say how many.
A compromise is to channel one’s vacations towards positive change for the community or environment.
SO2 masks global warming by forming aerosols that thicken and brighten clouds, reflecting the sun’s rays back into space.
BOTLENG, South Africa - With South Africa's ruling party on track to get about 42% of the vote in the national election, the anger in its heartland coal-mining belt gives a hint as to why it faces its worst result ever - and the prospect of sharing power with its rivals.
A part of capital Delhi recorded India’s highest ever temperature of 52.9 deg C this week.
PANAMA CITY - Rising sea levels due to climate change have forced an Indigenous Guna community to leave their homes on an island off Panama's coast that is fast disappearing.
Gas projects risk locking in decades of costly polluting energy and holding back investments in cheaper renewables.
SAO PAULO - Latin America's human rights court holds a final hearing in Brazil on Wednesday in a case that's part of a global wave of climate litigation, as several international courts prepare first-time opinions on what countries must do to combat climate change.
NEW DELHI - India's weather department issued a red alert for several parts of the country's northwest on Wednesday, warning of a severe heat wave a day after parts of the capital Delhi recorded their highest temperature ever at almost 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit).
Students fainted and fines were handed out for wasting water amid a severe heatwave.
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil - Tens of thousands of students in southern Brazil have been gone a month without seeing their classrooms after catastrophic floods submerged some schools and turned others into shelters, raising concerns about their mental health.
MOSCOW - Russia is not currently planning to restart the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, the head of Russia's state-owned nuclear power company Rosatom was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
This is the first time that deforestation in the Cerrado has been higher than that in the Amazon.
Record wind and solar capacity additions continued in the first quarter of 2024.
MOHENJO DARO, Pakistan - Temperatures rose above 52 degrees Celsius (125.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh, the highest reading of the summer and close to the country’s record high amid an ongoing heatwave, the met office said on Monday.
Data from the satellite will update climate models that estimate how quickly the Earth will warm.
PARIS - Climate activists climbed up a building near TotalEnergies' Paris headquarters on Friday to protest the oil major's climate strategy while others stormed the offices of Total investor Amundi, denouncing its holding in the group.
I refer to the Opinion piece “A new kind of philanthropy to fight climate change” (May 22) and agree that philanthropy is much needed to help deal with the complex, interconnected nature of challenges such as climate change.
The tribunal's opinion should serve as a wake-up call for all major CO2-emitting countries, experts say.
BRUSSELS/DRESDEN, Germany - Millions of young people took to the streets across Europe in 2019 demanding action to fight climate change, helping Green parties secure their best ever EU election results and giving them influence over climate policies Brussels has passed since.
Cement can be recycled without the same steep cost to the environment as making it from scratch, they say.
This is the first-ever climate-related judgment by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.
India’s weather bureau has warned of “severe heatwave conditions” this week.
Afghanistan is prone to natural disasters, and the UN considers it one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change.
Heavy rains in Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state since late April caused historic floods that killed over 150 people.
MOSCOW - Russia could deliver oil as well as gas to China along a planned route via Mongolia, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
MOSCOW - Authorities have managed to contain a fire at Russia's Tuapse oil refinery that broke out after a Ukrainian drone attack, officials in the Krasnodar region said.
Amid record ocean temperatures, coral bleaching has been recorded in 62 countries and territories since February 2023.
Hotter weather is likely to lead to more fatal or disabling strokes and can impact epilepsy.
SAN SALVADOR - El Salvador has mined nearly 474 bitcoins since 2021 thanks to a volcano-fueled geothermal power plant, official data showed on Tuesday, bringing the government's total bitcoin portfolio to nearly $354 million at current prices.
Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Tuesday there was \"not one shred of evidence\" of ship-to-ship transfers of sanctioned Iranian oil off Malaysia, amid U.S. concern that Iran was using Malaysian service providers to move its oil.
OSLO - When Arctic nations simulated a large oil spill for a virtual training exercise in March off northern Norway, Russia also took part - a rare sign of cooperation between Moscow and the West that highlighted the special status of the polar region.
BRUSSELS - European Union countries gave their final approval on Monday to a law to cut carbon dioxide emissions from trucks, which will require most new heavy-duty vehicles sold in the EU from 2040 to be emissions-free.
MEXICO CITY - The biggest geomagnetic storm in two decades, sparked by solar flares, caused dazzling lights displays in parts of Latin America overnight on Friday, including a rare appearance in Mexico.
TORONTO - An evacuation alert has been issued for Fort McMurray, Alberta, as an out-of-control fire rages southwest of the major Canadian oil town, making it among the first actions ahead of the wildfire season.
With Singapore facing rising temperatures due to global warming and the urban island heat effect, every effort must be made to reduce wasteful energy consumption in homes.
CANOAS, Brazil - Rains returned to Rio Grande do Sul on Friday as the death toll from historic floods in Brazil's southernmost state reached 113, according to local authorities, climbing from 107 in the previous day.
WARSAW - Thousands of protesters marched through the streets of the Polish capital Warsaw on Friday to show their opposition to European Union environmental regulations that farmers say are driving them out of business.
Island authorities have discussed shipping in water from the mainland if the dry weather continues.
Schools across much of Asia are not equipped to deal with growing consequences of climate change.
ELDORADO DO SUL, Brazil - Rescuers rushed to evacuate people stranded by devastating floods across the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul on Tuesday, with 90 reported dead and desperate survivors seeking food and basic supplies.
WASHINGTON - Two influential Republican U.S. lawmakers have urged President Joe Biden to prevent a French company from working on civil nuclear power projects with Russia's state-owned nuclear company Rosatom, saying doing otherwise would help fund Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.
Vietnam saw three waves of high temperatures in April, with the mercury peaking at 44 deg C.
LONDON - Britain's latest climate action plan is unlawful, London's High Court ruled on Friday in a legal challenge by three environmental campaign groups over emissions targets.
The aim is to make standing trees more lucrative than the world’s biggest driver of deforestation: cattle ranching.
Indian media has so far reported nine deaths linked to the heatwave.
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