BERLIN - Azerbaijan, host of this year's U.N. climate summit, will defend the right of oil and gas producing nations to invest in the sector, the country's president said on Friday, noting that despite climate targets, fossil fuel demand remains strong.
Coal plants must cut their emissions by 90 per cent under new rules that coal executives say are impossible to meet.
The 196 fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists outnumber any single delegation in Ottawa.
BOGOTA - Colombia's parks agency, the Frankfurt Zoological Society and German fund Legacy Landscapes on Thursday launched a financial mechanism to fund Chiribiquete National Park with $1 million each year for at least 30 years.
LONDON - The Scottish National Party (SNP) will lead a minority government in Scotland, leader Humza Yousaf said on Thursday, announcing the end of its coalition with the Green Party after a row about climate change targets.
KYIV - Drones sent by Ukraine's SBU security service struck two Rosneft-owned oil depots in Russia's Smolensk region in an overnight attack on Wednesday, a Ukrainian intelligence source said.
If they can get their act together, it could be the most significant pact since the 2015 Paris Agreements.
The weather in April is generally hot, but this year’s temperatures have so far been unusually high.
Climate change raised Asia's temperatures last year by nearly 2 deg C above the 1961 to 1990 average.
Landfills are producing more methane than we realised, according to a new study
LUXEMBOURG - The European Union's next package of sanctions should include steps against a shadow fleet of tankers moving Russian oil to circumvent sanctions, Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg.
Heat was singled out by two climate agencies as the biggest climate-related threat.
ACAPULCO - Mexican presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum on Friday said that if elected, her administration would focus on water management and renewable energy as part of a plan to boost the country's sustainability.
YANVARTSEVO, Kazakhstan - Kazakhstan braced on Friday for levels on the Ural River to rise sharply, something that could threaten two of its western regions and key oil infrastructure, while Russia grappled with floods in and near Siberia.
Nearly a quarter of coastal land could be lower than sea levels, putting hundreds of millions at risk of inundation.
The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog said on Thursday that officials at Ukraine's Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant had reported a new attempted drone attack on the facility's training centre -- less than two weeks after other similar incidents.
Japan expects AUVs to be used for inspecting offshore wind power generation facilities and underwater surveillance.
JAPARATINGA, Brazil - Brazil is bracing for what may be its worst-ever coral bleaching event as extremely warm waters damage reefs in the country's largest marine reserve – threatening the region's tourism and fishing revenues.
Coral bleaching was observed on 73 per cent of the surveyed reefs in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.
WASHINGTON/HOUSTON - The Biden administration has signaled that it could reimpose oil sanctions on Venezuela on Thursday in response to what U.S. officials see as President Nicolas Maduro's failure to meet his commitments for free and fair elections this year.
Its revised energy mix target would provide companies a better long-term outlook for investment decisions.
Coral in the coastal town of Bauan frequently suffered from natural hazards like typhoons and human-caused destruction.
WASHINGTON/HOUSTON - The U.S. will not renew a temporary license that widely eased sanctions on Venezuela's oil and gas sector unless progress is made by President Nicolas Maduro on commitments for free and fair elections this year, a State Department spokesperson said on Monday, three days before the license is to expire.
MOSCOW - Russia has been able to swiftly repair some of key oil refineries hit by Ukrainian drones, reducing capacity idled by the attacks to about 10% from almost 14% at the end of March, Reuters calculations showed.
Many of these investments can be deployed now and rapidly scaled up to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
LONDON - Trustees of a climate targets verification group at the centre of a governance storm on Friday sought to assuage concern over their plan to allow offsetting of companies' supply chain emissions.
STOCKHOLM - Sweden will not reach its climate targets without further political action to cut carbon emissions, the Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday.
The target can be achieved if additional action is taken by governments, businesses, investors and households.
The government says emissions on a steady decline, on track to meet 2050 net-zero targets.
It shows that human rights courts are open to arguments that challenge commitments to tackling climate change.
LONDON - The climate targets verification group that announced a plan this week to allow companies to offset greenhouse gas emissions from their supply chain with carbon credits came under new pressure on Thursday to drop the policy.
ALMATY - More than 98,000 people have been evacuated due to floods in Kazakhstan, the country's emergencies ministry said on Thursday.
BRUSSELS - European Union lawmakers on Wednesday adopted a law to place methane emission limits on Europe's oil and gas imports from 2030, pressuring international suppliers to clamp down on leaks of the potent greenhouse gas.
MOSCOW/ALMATY - Floods gripped cities and towns across Russia and Kazakhstan on Wednesday after Europe's third-longest river burst its banks, forcing over 110,000 people to evacuate and swamping parts of the Russian city of Orenburg.
With the impact of wars, geopolitics and climate change, the unknowns have multiplied
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Tuesday ruled in favour of a group of elderly Swiss women who said their government's inadequate efforts to combat climate change put them at risk of dying during heatwaves.
VIENNA - An extraordinary meeting of the U.N. nuclear watchdog's 35-nation Board of Governors called by Russia to discuss attacks on the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine is due to be held on Thursday, four diplomats said.
Rising climate change impacts, from floods to droughts and extreme heat, are taking a disproportionate toll on women.
Floods are threatening Russia's southern Kurgan region, putting more than 19,000 people's lives at risk, the state news agency said on Tuesday, days after unprecedented flooding displaced thousands of people and inundated a city in the Ural region.
BRUSSELS - The world just experienced its warmest March on record, capping a 10-month streak in which every month set a new temperature record, the European Union's climate change monitoring service said on Tuesday.
Singapore is currently facing an unprecedented heatwave, with “feels like” temperatures of 40 deg C. As we face warnings of excessive heat and UV radiation levels reaching new highs, it’s important to discuss the potential consequences of extreme heat conditions on our young athletes.
HARARE - Mandisireyi Mbirinyu, 70, and her 13-year-old grandson Tinotenda sit in the blistering sun, shelling the few maize cobs they managed to retrieve from land parched by a drought ravaging southern Africa.
MOSCOW/VIENNA - Russia said Ukraine struck the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station controlled by Russian forces three times on Sunday and demanded the West respond, though Kyiv said it had nothing to do with the attacks.
BASRA/BAGHDAD - Baghdad is repairing a pipeline that could allow it to send 350,000 barrels per day (bpd) to Turkey by the end of the month, an Iraqi deputy oil minister said on Monday, a step likely to rile oil foreign companies and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
LONDON - Does government inaction on climate change violate human rights?
MEXICO CITY - At least one contractor was killed after a fire struck an offshore platform operated by Mexico's national oil company Pemex, the firm said in a statement on Sunday, adding that two others were in \"grave\" condition.
SYDNEY - New Zealand's government on Saturday said an independent panel of experts would review the country's methane targets, with the aim of guiding domestic climate change goals for 2050.
MOSCOW - Ukrainian military drones attacked the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant but caused no damage to its critical infrastructure, Russian state-run RIA news agency quoted the press service of the Russian-controlled facility as saying.
Italy's energy giant is proposing to contruct a network of pipelines to sweep up CO2 from industry sites.
MOSCOW - The governor of Russia's Arctic region of Murmansk survived a stabbing attack, and investigators said on Friday they had arrested a man with a criminal record who said he committed the assault out of \"dislike\" for the official.
The woman was severely injured during the incident and taken to a hospital, where she later died.
MOSCOW - Russia's Novatek is being forced to scale back its huge Arctic LNG 2 project after Western sanctions curbed its access to ice-class tankers, and will focus instead on developing its project at the ice-free port of Murmansk, industry sources said.
Saudi Aramco, Gazprom and Coal India were the top three CO2-emitting companies between 2016 and 2022.
MUMBAI - The Indian rupee ended at a record closing low weighed down by dollar demand from local oil companies and weakness in its Asian peers.
He said EDB has so far engaged about 20 companies on the carbon tax transition framework.
It argues a court order for a drastic emission cut obstructs the role the firm can play in the energy transition.
TORONTO - An unusually warm winter in Canada this year has delayed the opening of a 400-kilometer (250-mile) ice road that is rebuilt every year as the main conduit for Rio Tinto, Burgundy Mines , and De Beers to access their diamond mines in the remote Arctic region.
These landfills are belching methane at almost three times the rate reported to federal regulators.
BERLIN - China has initiated dispute consultations with the United States regarding tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act to promote the production of electric vehicles and renewable energy, the World Trade Organization said on Thursday.
LONDON - Britain’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions fell by 5.4% in 2023 partly due to lower gas use in the electricity sector, provisional government data showed on Thursday.
Melting ice in Greenland and Antarctica has slowed Earth's rotation and delayed the need to put clocks back a second.
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday during his visit to Brazil that a potential agreement between the European Union and the South American Mercosur trade bloc as it stands is a \"very bad deal\" and more climate commitments are needed.
Samoa will be the first Pacific small island state to host the annual meeting.
The aftermath of the collapse throws another spotlight on the fragile nature of global supply chains.
BRUSSELS - A group of EU countries led by Austria is calling for urgent revisions to the bloc's anti-deforestation law set to go into effect at the end of the year, saying it could hurt European farmers, according to a document reviewed by Reuters on Monday.
Consumption of palm oil for biodiesel in Indonesia surpassed that for food for the first time in 2023.
The government estimates that geothermal energy could overtake hydroelectric and solar power by 2050.
Farmers worry there will be a 10 per cent reduction in vegetable planting if weather conditions persists.
Africa and South America would be the continents most affected, the study found.
The United States has urged Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian energy infrastructure, warning that drone strikes risk provoking retaliation and driving up global oil prices, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
MOSCOW - The Russian-controlled management of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, said on Friday that a high-voltage line supplying it with electricity has been repaired after an outage earlier in the day.
LONDON/ADEN - Two tankers, containing oil and toxic waste, are stuck in the Red Sea in the firing line between Western naval forces and Yemen's Houthi militants despite repeated efforts by the United Nations to empty and move the ships to avoid a spill.
The early onset of high temperatures that hit the region in mid-February has left people with less time to adjust.
Can electricity grids withstand the storms and floods that climate change has brought in its wake?
Of the 25 largest listed fossil fuel firms assessed, only one has plans for production decline in the longer term.
GENEVA - Cooperation between the U.S. and China on methane is advancing, the deputy U.S. special envoy on climate change said on Tuesday, saying there was an opportunity for Beijing to slash emissions from its massive coal sector at little or no cost.
MOSCOW - A Russian energy ministry official told a parliament meeting on Tuesday there were plans to defend oil and gas facilities with missile systems.\"We are jointly working, including with colleagues from the Russian National Guard, to cover objects, on installing, accordingly, protection systems such as Pantsir,\" said Artyom Verkhov, director of energy ministry's department for gas industry development.
March 18, 2024 6:17 PM BUHERA, Zimbabwe - Residents of the Zimbabwean village of Buhera stood in groups at a primary school waiting to be called by name to receive life-saving handouts of grain, peas and cooking oil.
March 18, 2024 3:00 PM Jens Stoltenberg called climate change a “crisis multiplier” with implications for global security.
March 16, 2024 2:01 PM MOSCOW - The governor of Russia's Samara region said on Saturday that Ukrainian drones had struck two oil refineries belonging to state-owned oil giant Rosneft in the region, causing no casualties but leaving one facility on fire.
March 15, 2024 8:21 PM BEIJING - Chinese President Xi Jinping said he would support Chinese firms that invest in Angola's agriculture and manufacturing sectors, state media reported on Friday, as the African oil producing nation seeks help in diversifying its economy.
March 15, 2024 4:56 PM YAKUTSK, Russia - Russians cast their ballots across the country's 11 time zones on Friday, the start of a three-day election that is almost certain to hand Vladimir Putin six more years at the helm of the world's biggest nuclear power.
March 15, 2024 2:11 AM SANTIAGO - Scientists in Antarctica are warning of the spread of deadly H5N1 avian flu virus after the disease was first confirmed on the frozen continent's mainland last month and has since been detected in local penguin and cormorant populations.
March 14, 2024 4:07 PM As the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter, China needs to take its responsibility seriously, says Mr John Podesta.
March 14, 2024 3:42 PM Even nuclear war and unbridled climate change on Earth would not make Mars more liveable, Mr Obama said.
March 14, 2024 3:16 PM MOSCOW - The Russian-controlled management of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant said on Thursday that a critical infrastructure facility at the plant was shelled by the Ukrainian army.
March 14, 2024 11:05 AM Paris 2024 will will use renewable energy, serve lots of vegetarian meals and heavily restrict plastic bottles.
March 13, 2024 2:29 PM Report shows large methane plumes from leaky fossil fuel infrastructure jumped by 50% in 2023 compared with 2022.
March 13, 2024 10:25 AM Russia's AS-31 deep-diving nuclear powered submarine, known by its nickname as Losharik, will go out for testing in June or July after completing years of repairs, the state TASS news agency reported on Wednesday, citing an unnamed military source.
March 12, 2024 5:25 PM TOKYO - U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said on Tuesday there is no direct safety issue from Ukrainian staff being barred from accessing the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which Ukraine has called a \"grave concern\".
March 12, 2024 3:50 PM The two forecasters are sending divergent signals to traders and investors on oil market strength in 2024.
March 12, 2024 2:49 PM China has shown little political will to address the emissions gap mainly because of energy security concerns, analysts say.
March 12, 2024 9:27 AM MOSCOW - Ukraine pounded targets in Russia on Tuesday with dozens of drones and rockets in a sweeping attack that inflicted serious damage on a major oil refinery and sought to pierce the land borders of the world's biggest nuclear power with armed proxies.
March 10, 2024 8:22 PM DAKAR - A Senegalese opposition coalition backed by popular firebrand Ousmane Sonko launched its presidential campaign platform on Saturday with promises to create a new national currency and renegotiate mining and energy contracts.
March 09, 2024 8:01 AM Thousands of people had to evacuate last month amid an intense heatwave and bushfire in Victoria.
March 09, 2024 1:31 AM Russia has occupied Europe's biggest nuclear power plant since capturing it at the start of Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
March 08, 2024 7:06 PM Last October, an Idaho farmer using a backhoe punched a hole into a 22-inch (56-cm) pipeline buried under a field, sending more than 51 million cubic feet of natural gas hissing into the air.
March 08, 2024 5:36 AM VIENNA - The U.N. nuclear watchdog's Board of Governors voted on Thursday to demand Russia withdraw from Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), in a resolution passed days after the two-year anniversary of the plant's capture by Russian troops.
March 07, 2024 9:26 PM ISTANBUL - Turkey signed an offshore oil and natural gas cooperation deal with Somalia on Thursday, the Turkish Energy Ministry said, further strengthening bilateral ties after agreeing a defence deal last month.
March 07, 2024 3:27 PM Companies are required to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions for the first time, but not from their supply chains.
March 07, 2024 2:50 PM The government plans to launch exchange-traded notes linked to carbon allowances in 2024.
March 07, 2024 11:11 AM A fourth global mass coral bleaching event is likely unfolding in the Southern Hemisphere, scientists warn.
March 07, 2024 3:11 AM BUENOS AIRES - The high probability of a strong La Nina arriving by October has put grains farmers on alert in Argentina, where the climate phenomenon usually brings dry weather with lower rainfall, the Rosario grains exchange said on Wednesday.
March 06, 2024 3:37 PM It proposed members disclose more about climate commitments without having to coordinate action.
March 06, 2024 2:53 PM Since May 2023, the average global sea surface temperature has been at record seasonal highs every day.
March 05, 2024 9:50 PM GENEVA - The El Nino weather pattern has begun to weaken but will continue to fuel above average temperatures across the globe, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Tuesday.
March 05, 2024 6:40 PM LONDON - The world is on the verge of a fourth mass coral bleaching event which could see wide swathes of tropical reefs die, including parts of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said.
March 05, 2024 4:40 PM Both leaders agreed to collaborate across a range of sectors, such as renewable energy and AI.
March 05, 2024 2:37 PM China is aiming to cut its energy intensity by 2.5% in 2024, higher than 2023’s missed 2% goal.
March 05, 2024 5:00 AM I question the ecological and fiscal wisdom of investing $27 million to remove some 3,650 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the ocean yearly (PUB to build world’s largest facility to help remove CO2 from ocean, Feb 27).
March 04, 2024 9:30 PM VIENNA - U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said on Monday he intends to discuss Russia's plans for the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant it is occupying in Ukraine when he meets Russian President Vladimir Putin this week.
March 04, 2024 8:30 PM BRUSSELS - The European Union is set to call for the fossil fuel industry to help pay for fighting climate change in poorer countries under a United Nations target, a draft document shows, as nations prepare for talks this year on a global finance goal.
March 03, 2024 5:00 AM Growth in the sector has been slow, causing India to miss its green energy target.
March 02, 2024 1:52 PM Sea ice levels in Antarctica have registered historic lows for three consecutive years.
March 02, 2024 1:11 PM Hotter temperatures and decreased rainfall increase stress on elephants older than 40.
March 01, 2024 3:13 PM Environmentalists say the Green Credit Programme could end up profiting businesses responsible for deforestation.
March 01, 2024 2:44 PM Sea level rise can increase even modest levels of arsenic due to a phenomenon known as saltwater intrusion.
March 01, 2024 1:59 PM With people living in landslide-prone areas and shortcomings in weather alerts, the rain became devastating.
February 29, 2024 4:18 PM OPPDAL, NORWAY - One by one, the crate doors swing open and five Arctic foxes bound off into the snowy landscape.
February 29, 2024 3:05 PM The company is accused of making misleading statements about its efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
February 28, 2024 6:40 PM Southern Vietnam in February saw temperature highs that usually occur in April or May.
February 28, 2024 3:29 PM The EU is at risk of widespread backlash unless politicians do more to blunt the effects of rising carbon prices.
February 28, 2024 6:52 AM The Caribbean island of Aruba issued an alert on Tuesday after an oil spill that was first spotted near Tobago spread to neighboring Bonaire, threatening its mangrove forests and national parks.
February 27, 2024 10:47 PM BRASILIA/SAO PAULO - Brazil's federal police and environmental protection agency Ibama have repatriated native parrots and monkeys suspected of having been illegally trafficked to Togo, the force said.
February 27, 2024 6:32 AM SAO PAULO - Brazil on Monday announced it would partner with the world's biggest financial climate coalition to turbocharge funding for clean energy and efforts to restore nature, such as reforesting the Amazon rainforest.
February 27, 2024 12:27 AM BUENOS AIRES - The government of Argentina's libertarian President Javier Milei said on Monday a threat by oil-rich province Chubut to cut off gas and oil supplies amounted to \"extortion\" amid a brewing fight over tax disbursements to the Patagonian region.
February 26, 2024 2:20 PM Mechanisms to share emission reduction technology would be more effective, he Asian Development Bank says in a report.
February 26, 2024 5:00 AM The building of wind farms and extracting materials from Sami territory are affecting their livelihoods and rights.
February 24, 2024 4:06 PM KANALIA, Greece - Sitting in a small motorboat, farmer Babis Evangelinos glides over land he once cultivated on the Thessaly plain in central Greece, the nearby trunks of his fruitless almond trees submerged by floodwater.
February 24, 2024 4:46 AM Trinidad and Tobago's government on Friday confirmed the refined product leaking from a barge that struck a reef and overturned off the coast of Tobago was tested and determined to be a type of fuel oil.
February 23, 2024 11:26 AM WELLINGTON - New Zealand is reassessing a proposed overhaul of its Antarctica base after negotiations with a construction firm reached a deadlock due to budget issues, the government agency responsible for the country's Antarctic operations said on Friday.
February 22, 2024 2:28 PM The country is forecast to fall short of its target to reduce emissions to net zero by the middle of the century.
February 22, 2024 1:21 PM SANTIAGO - Deadly wildfires like those that burned through central Chile and killed at least 133 people this month will become more likely in the South American country as climate change makes the world hotter and drier, according to a report released on Thursday.
February 21, 2024 7:10 PM Canada has secured the surrender of the last remaining permits for oil and gas development off its Pacific Coast, the federal natural resources minister said on Wednesday, after Chevron Canada voluntarily relinquished 23 permits this month.
February 21, 2024 2:46 PM Its coal output growth could slow to 1.4 per cent this year.
February 20, 2024 1:57 PM The boom in solar power will fence off millions of hectares of land in the US, blanketing them in rows of glassy squares.
February 19, 2024 5:44 AM Up to 70 firefighters are battling to bring the blaze under control.
February 18, 2024 2:08 AM Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis claimed responsibility on Saturday for an attack on the oil tanker M/T Pollux, which U.S. officials said the previous day had been hit by a missile.
February 17, 2024 2:58 AM Trinidad and Tobago is considering declaring an international emergency to deal with an oil spill that has stained miles of its shores and threatens to spread to its Caribbean neighbors, Prime Minister Keith Rowley said on Friday.
February 16, 2024 2:46 PM For some, the energy watchdog's pivot undermines its role as an impartial energy authority.
February 15, 2024 4:32 PM Russian President Vladimir Putin criticised the green movement in Europe for capitalising on peoples' fears about climate change, while questioning Germany's commitment to phasing out coal.
February 15, 2024 2:43 PM Scientists will use cloud computing and storage to run an algorithm on satellite observations to track polluters.
February 15, 2024 12:45 PM The new government’s management of its natural resources could have a significant impact on tackling global warming.
February 15, 2024 2:47 AM A week after an oil spill was first spotted near Tobago's shore, portions of the stain are moving in opposite directions into the Caribbean Sea, the island's emergency management agency (TEMA) said on Wednesday.
February 14, 2024 2:54 PM Revenue from the levy could generate $87 billion a year to help fund deployments of renewable energy.
February 14, 2024 3:57 AM First responders and volunteers from Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday sought to contain an oil spill detected last week in the Caribbean country's waters and clean areas of Tobago island's coast already affected by the incident.
February 13, 2024 1:11 PM The three-way 'troika' will focus on ensuring ambitious CO2-cutting pledges are made ahead of 2025‘s COP30 summit.
February 12, 2024 4:25 PM Once the laughing stock of the auto industry, it is now the leader in sales of fully electric cars.
February 11, 2024 12:07 PM The majority of Berrechid’s agricultural lands are not irrigated, with farmers relying on rain.
February 09, 2024 4:39 PM But the first 12-month period of exceeding 1.5 deg C does not yet mean the Paris goal has been missed.
February 09, 2024 7:10 AM The La Nina weather pattern is characterized by unusually cold temperatures in the Pacific Ocean.
February 08, 2024 3:40 PM The ICC should start trying suspects without having to modify its founding statutes, its chief prosecutor says.
February 07, 2024 9:54 PM U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi visited the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine on Wednesday and said there were enough wells on site to supply cooling pools, Russian news agencies reported.
February 07, 2024 3:29 PM Zimbabwe expects to harvest 2.28 million metric tons of maize this year, enough to meet its annual consumption, due to the promotion of farming practices aimed at reducing the impact of climate change, such as no till farming and water harvesting.
February 07, 2024 5:04 AM Survivors of Chile's recent deadly wildfires described a hellish nightmare, a hurricane of fireballs leaping from hill to hill, lighting up everything within its path in seconds.
February 06, 2024 3:50 PM The weather phenomenon, notable for its shape, will become stronger and more frequent due to climate change.
February 06, 2024 7:50 AM There were extreme-weather advisories for floods, high wind and winter storm conditions.
February 06, 2024 3:24 AM The European Union needs to take into account its ambitious targets for solar power deployment before it considers any measures to curb imports of photovoltaic panels, wafers and other components, a senior EU official said on Monday.
February 03, 2024 5:00 PM Scientists say shielding Earth from 2% of the sun’s radiation is enough to keep it within manageable climate boundaries.
February 03, 2024 4:02 PM Their reported earnings show the industry remains robust despite climate change concerns.
February 03, 2024 2:55 PM Policymakers say 70% of the emissions generated by its power sector can be captured and recycled.
February 03, 2024 5:00 AM Associate editor Ravi Velloor’s excellent essay “The Indian Republic at 75” (Jan 31) gives a considered scorecard of India’s achievements and prospects at 75.
February 02, 2024 3:40 PM Brazil’s progress in fighting deforestation has helped its government seek new donations.
February 01, 2024 6:27 PM Climate activist Greta Thunberg arrived at a London court on Thursday to face trial on a public order offence over a protest outside an oil and gas conference last year.
February 01, 2024 3:09 PM The new licensing round angered environmental activists, who accused the government of sticking 'fingers in its ears'.
February 01, 2024 8:10 AM Mr Podesta will be thrust into deliberations in 2024 over how much rich nations should devote to helping poor, developing countries address climate change.
January 31, 2024 6:22 PM Among the targets are water treatment plants, the electrical grid, oil and natural gas pipelines, and transportation hubs.
January 31, 2024 2:20 PM The Indonesian govt would collect royalties from storage fees charged by the CCS operators.
January 31, 2024 12:00 PM The north-western autonomous region has rich resources in oil, natural gas, coal and minerals.
January 30, 2024 4:38 PM To secure the funding, it will need to divest from areas like fossil fuel production.
January 29, 2024 6:21 PM Russia's energy ministry has proposed restricting flights over Russian energy facilities, the Vedomosti daily reported on Monday, after a spate of Ukraine-linked attacks this month on oil infrastructure.
January 29, 2024 2:01 AM The ship is built to run on liquefied natural gas.
January 27, 2024 9:55 PM Laos has plentiful supplies of renewable energy, especially hydropower, and can be a source of carbon credits.
January 26, 2024 6:30 PM Russia will use alternative routes and supplies of sea-borne liquefied natural gas in case Ukraine does not extend the deal on Russian gas transit to Europe, Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.
January 26, 2024 2:56 PM Most of them are concerned about losing their jobs, particularly those working in the fossil fuel industry.
January 26, 2024 5:00 AM US and China cooperation on climate change benefits both nations and also drives global climate action.
January 26, 2024 2:55 AM MADRID/ Spring temperatures in the middle of Spain's winter lured people to beaches and outdoor cafes on Thursday - but even those enjoying the unusually warm weather voiced concerns about climate change and the threat of new heatwaves.
January 25, 2024 4:05 PM Intense rain accompanying the cyclone may cause life-threatening flash flooding, the Bureau of Meteorology said.
January 25, 2024 3:12 PM The green investment trusts will cater to investments in projects that generate income from carbon credits.
January 24, 2024 7:00 PM Research will be conducted to improve apps' coding to be more energy efficient.
January 24, 2024 3:55 PM They are using the earth beneath to keep buildings at comfortable temperatures without burning fossil fuels.
January 24, 2024 1:55 PM At least six people were killed including three firefighters after a truck carrying 60 tons of liquefied natural gas exploded in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar on Tuesday, according to Mongolia's emergency officials.
January 24, 2024 9:10 AM Tuvalu expects to review its diplomatic ties with Taiwan after Friday's election, Finance Minister Seve Paeniu told Reuters, adding voters in the tiny Pacific Island nation wanted more financial support from the international community for climate change and development.
January 23, 2024 4:21 PM Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been placed in solitary confinement for 10 days in a prison above the Arctic circle for \"incorrectly introducing himself\" to a guard, his spokesperson said late on Monday.
January 23, 2024 3:04 PM Crops grown in urban gardens have a carbon footprint six times larger than farm grown produce, researchers find.
January 22, 2024 10:18 PM Substantive issues, from coal and renewable energy use to methane emissions reduction, have yet to be resolved.
January 21, 2024 4:05 PM A fire at a terminal of Russia's largest liquefied natural gas producer Novatek on the Baltic Sea was caused by two explosions, the state RIA news agency reported on Sunday, citing local officials.
January 20, 2024 9:00 AM Parts of Western Australia on Saturday were set to swelter through an \"extreme\" heatwave, raising the risk of bushfires in the vast state, the nation's weather forecaster said.
January 19, 2024 7:15 PM Oil tanks at a storage facility in the town of Klintsy in Russia's Bryansk region caught fire after the military brought down a Ukrainian drone, Alexander Bogomaz, the regional governor, said on Friday.
January 19, 2024 4:29 PM A key new component of the 2040 goal will be carbon removals, including technologies such as direct air capture.
January 19, 2024 3:02 PM The projected increase will exceed key trajectories for limiting warming to 1.5 deg C, says the Met Office.
January 18, 2024 10:35 PM The region will need to grapple with the twin challenges of demography and climate change.
January 18, 2024 4:05 PM That’s more than twice the CO2 emitted by the global fishing industry’s burning of fossil fuels.
January 18, 2024 3:00 PM Companies have cut down tropical forest equivalent to size of 6,000 football pitches since 2018.
January 18, 2024 5:00 AM Could heightened strategic interest in the northern region push it closer to ratifying Unclos?
January 17, 2024 10:25 PM The European Union has drafted plans to capture and store hundreds of millions of tons of CO2 emissions by 2050 to ensure industries can meet Europe's climate change goals, a draft document showed.
January 17, 2024 3:03 PM London isn’t adapting quickly enough to mounting climate risks including flooding and extreme heat.
January 16, 2024 10:13 PM The French island of La Reunion lifted a cyclone alert at noon (0800 GMT) on Tuesday, as cyclone Belal that struck the Indian Ocean island a day earlier had moved away and no longer posed a threat, local authorities said.
January 16, 2024 5:09 PM The warmer weather is forecast to last till the end of January.
Asia is on the cusp of a summer of life-threatening dengue fever.
Warmer air holds more water, and climate-driven circulation changes are making storms more disastrous.
The bank was accused of indirectly financing the country's coal plants through a $816 million loan.
Wealthier nations, most responsible for planet-heating emissions, have been criticised for not paying their fair share.
BRUSSELS - The European Commission is expected to propose sanctions on ships delivering North Korean military equipment to Russia as well as tankers that flout the G7 price cap on Russian oil, European Union sources said on Wednesday.
BERLIN - A German court on Tuesday handed down suspended eight-month prison sentences to three climate activists who sprayed orange paint on the columns of Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate last September to demand a stop to the use of fossil fuels by 2030.
The good news is we can still avoid even worse outcomes.
China’s coal consumption - the world’s biggest - may see a minor uptick in the next two years.
These include excessive heat, UV radiation, air pollution, vector-borne diseases and agrochemicals.
MOSCOW - Russia said on Monday that U.S., British and French military support for Ukraine has pushed the world to the brink of a direct clash between the world's biggest nuclear powers that could end in catastrophe.
Weather events in China have become more intense and unpredictable because of global warming.
Most parts Taroko National Park, including the famous Taroko Gorge, remain closed to visitors.
WASHINGTON - U.S. lawmakers have tucked sanctions on Iran's oil exports in the House of Representatives' aid package for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific after Tehran's missile and drone strike on Israel last weekend.
MOSCOW - Russian oil producer Bashneft has installed anti-drone nets to protect key facilities at its refineries from potential Ukrainian attack, the head of the republic of Bashkortostan where the company is based was quoted as saying on Friday.
Latin American nations must be on high alert as the weather phenomenon known as El Nino rapidly switches over to La Nina, experts said on Thursday, leaving populations and crops little time to recover.
The burning of fossil fuels plays a major role in the region's unusually intense heat wave.
PEROVSKY, Russia - As floods engulfed large parts of central Russia, residents of one village defied advice to flee their homes and started building a homemade dam.
The saltwater crocodile will be handed over to the Department of Wildlife and National Parks.
Clerics in the world’s largest Muslim country are mobilising congregants to rein in climate change.
GENEVA - The United Nations on Tuesday said it was seeking to raise $1 billion to boost humanitarian aid to Ethiopia, which has been hit by conflict, drought and floods.
Shortages raised expectations of an accerated shift to green energy, but India's response was exactly the opposite.
An expert said said that oil-related sanctions have not been strictly enforced in the past couple of years.
WASHINGTON - The World Bank and other multilateral development banks are making good progress on reforms to expand their lending capacity to help countries brace for climate change and other challenges, but more work is needed, a senior U.S. Treasury official said.
Nearly four dozen countries would risk default if they invested the necessary amounts to hit Paris Agreement goals.
KYIV - Safety at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine remains precarious but the shift to a cold shutdown of all six reactor units, completed on Saturday, is positive, the U.N. nuclear watchdog chief said in a statement.
ABUJA - Nigeria's military said on Friday it had inflicted heavy losses on Islamist militant groups in the north and oil thieves in the south, arresting hundreds, seizing weapons and rescuing kidnap victims in a week-long operation.
STOCKHOLM - Greenpeace activists painted slogans on an Estonian-owned tanker in the middle of the Baltic Sea on Friday, and said the ship's supply of bunker fuel to vessels transporting Russian oil poses a danger to the environment.
This phenomenon that could multiply fivefold by the mid-century.
GENEVA/ZURICH - Switzerland for all its snow-capped mountains and crisp Alpine air has failed to protect its people from the ravages of climate change, as a top European court ruled this week.
LIMA - Deaths caused by the mosquito-born dengue disease have more than tripled in Peru so far this year, according to data from the South American nation's government, which is redoubling efforts to contain an epidemic that has hit poor areas the hardest.
Drones attacked Zaporizhzhia - Europe's biggest nuclear power plant - on April 7, hitting a reactor building.
Historic floods have engulfed towns across Russia after Europe's third-longest river burst its banks.
Canada risks another \"catastrophic\" wildfire season, the federal government said on Wednesday, as it forecasted higher-than-normal spring and summer temperatures across much of the country, boosted by El Nino weather conditions.
A landmark climate change ruling from the European Court of Human rights on Tuesday found that the Swiss government had violated the human rights of its citizens by failing to do enough to combat climate change, in a case brought by a group of older Swiss women.
CARACAS - Venezuelan former oil minister Tareck El Aissami, once one of the most influential officials in President Nicolas Maduro's government, has been arrested in a corruption probe into state oil company PDVSA, the attorney general said on Tuesday.
STRASBOURG - Europe's top human rights court ruled in favour of a group of elderly Swiss women who said their government violated their human rights by not doing enough to combat climate change.
BRUSSELS - The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday ruled in favour of a group of Swiss elderly women suing their government for alleged \"woefully inadequate\" efforts to fight climate change, agreeing that their government had violated some human rights by missing past emissions reduction targets.
Many company targets were described as ambiguous and relied on offsets instead of cutting emissions.
LONDON - The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decides on Tuesday whether insufficient government action on climate change can amount to a human rights violation, in three rulings that could give legal leverage to climate activists across the continent.
BOGOTA - Deforestation in Colombia's Amazon region is forecast to have declined by 25% to 35% in 2023, Environment Minister Susana Muhamad said on Monday, while warning that evidence shows that destruction has increased so far in 2024.
VIENNA - Russia's ambassador to the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Monday his country had called an emergency meeting of the watchdog's 35-nation Board of Governors over what it says are Ukrainian attacks on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP).
MOSCOW - Russia said on Monday that Ukraine had endangered European nuclear security by attacking the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station with a drone which was shot down over a reactor.
MOSCOW - The Kremlin said on Monday that Ukrainian drone attacks on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station were very dangerous.
Law enforcement agencies are struggling to keep track of illicit shipments entering via Turkey, Russia or Ukraine.
Singapore sees green finance as key in accelerating the world’s progress towards net-zero emissions.
Authorities believe there are only 82 such rhinos in Indonesian national park where calf was seen.
Two of its glaciers melted by more than 100m last year.
BENGALURU - India's Adani Wilmar forecast double-digit percentage growth in fourth-quarter edible oil sales on Friday, driven by strong demand during the festive season in the world's biggest importer.
Fund will be invested in projects ranging from home energy retrofitting programmes to off-grid renewable energy.
Has bird flu already killed hundreds, if not thousands of penguins in Antarctica?
DAKAR - Senegal's newly elected President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Wednesday said his government would conduct an audit of the West African nation's oil, gas and mining sectors.
MOSCOW - A backup power line supplying the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine has gone down, the Russian-controlled management of the plant said on Thursday.
A further 660 people are still trapped, mostly in hotels in a national park.
JERGUL, Norway - It is minus 6 degrees Celsius in Arctic Norway and some 30 Indigenous Sami herders have gathered 1,500 reindeer in a corral, sorting who owns which animal after the herds mixed while grazing up on the Finnmark plateau.
The Republic is building up its capabilities to understand and assess advanced nuclear energy tech.
BOGOTA - The World Bank has approved a loan of $750 million to Colombia, to help the country become more resilient in the face of climate change by buoying up renewable energy efforts and reducing carbon emissions, the bank said on Monday.
For every decade between 1979 and 2020, researchers found heatwaves slowed down by an average of 8km an hour per day.
The new rules were touted as evidence of Mr Joe Biden’s commitment to tackling climate change.
MOSCOW - Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that Russia was working with partners amid unprecedented pressure from the U.S. and European Union after Reuters reported Moscow was experiencing some delays for oil payments.
China is still adding coal-fired power capacity, but officials say they will eventually be back-up to cleaner fuels
Operators of oil and gas projects on federal land would be required to do more to arrest methane leaks.
There were more natural catastrophes causing insured losses in 2023 with a record of 142.
SEOUL - The United States and South Korea this week launched a new task force aimed at preventing North Korea from procuring illicit oil, as deadlock at the United Nations Security Council casts doubts over the future of international sanctions.
Agriculture ministers from 20 of the EU's 27 member countries supported a call by Austria to revise the law.
Low-lying islands standing less than 3m above sea level are at high risk of disappearing.
Energy insecurity and the fallout from the war in Ukraine are pushing countries back to coal.
CAIRO - A Panama-flagged crude oil tanker caught fire after being struck by an unidentified projectile off Yemen on Saturday, in the latest attack on commercial shipping in the Red Sea.
BRUSSELS - Leaders from pro-nuclear European countries and energy experts called for a nuclear energy revival on Thursday at a summit in Brussels, seeking to rebuild the European industry after years of gradual decline.
KYIV - A Ukrainian deputy prime minister said on Friday Russian oil refineries were legitimate targets for its forces, after a media report said the United States, a close ally, had asked Kyiv to stop conducting drone strikes on refineries.
KYIV - Ukraine's nuclear power company said on Friday the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which requires constant external power to prevent a disaster, was on the verge of a blackout after Russia struck a nearby hydro-electric dam.
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal government on Thursday survived a no-confidence motion brought by the opposition Conservative Party over Canada's carbon tax, which looks set to be a major issue in an election likely to be held next year.
Warmer weather means peak bloom for the city's thousands of trees starts six days earlier, on average, than a century ago.
BEIJING - China's coast guard said a number of Philippine personnel ignored its warnings and illegally landed on a reef that is part of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea on March 21.
The UN global campaign sees children calling for action to prevent the worst impacts of climate change.
Asia is a major source of e-waste and accounts for nearly half of global e-waste generated in 2022.
QUETTA - Twelve miners were killed and eight rescued after an explosion in a coal mine in south-western Pakistan, officials said on Wednesday.
HANOI - Nga Trang has nearly stopped going out in the evening and forbids her kids to play outdoors after school because air pollution from burning trash gets worse in her neighbourhood in Hanoi in the late afternoon.
The university plans to divest from all direct and indirect investments in fossil fuels by 2030.
March 18, 2024 3:15 PM Australia‘s climate goal is hampered by the longer-than-expected roll-out of renewable energy.
March 17, 2024 8:31 PM KYIV - Long-range Ukrainian attack drones launched by the SBU domestic security service have hit 12 Russian oil refineries during the war so far, a Ukrainian intelligence source told Reuters on Sunday.
March 16, 2024 5:00 AM But ageing farmers, global warming and the spread of bootleg Japanese produce pose threats to washoku.
March 15, 2024 5:21 PM Ukraine attacked a Russian oil refinery in Kaluga region with drones early on Friday, causing damage in an operation that was conducted by the GUR military spy agency, a Ukrainian intelligence source told Reuters.
March 15, 2024 1:11 PM Researchers found coral bleaching around six islands in the far northern parts of the Great Barrier Reef.
March 14, 2024 8:51 PM BRUSSELS - Azerbaijan, host of this year's U.N. climate change talks, hopes to upgrade its emissions reduction target in time for the event, the incoming president of the COP29 summit said on Thursday.
March 14, 2024 3:52 PM The new guidelines require banks to report emissions tied to money raised via bond or share issues.
March 14, 2024 3:21 PM Individual firms in the food supply chain could lose as much as 26 per cent of their value by 2030.
March 14, 2024 3:00 PM The European Union is accused of applying double standards with their upcoming ban on imports linked to deforestation.
March 13, 2024 3:24 PM Adaptation is insufficiently funded, poorly coordinated and not well monitored, warned the Climate Change Committee.
March 13, 2024 2:10 PM Not only are children's still-developing bodies more susceptible to damage, they also breathe faster than adults.
March 12, 2024 6:50 PM HAMBURG - German shipowners' group VDR on Tuesday urged the Berlin government to provide legislation implementing European Union requirements to include the sector in the bloc's carbon trading system.
March 12, 2024 3:59 PM The request for $10.6 billion will be put towards hiring 50,000 new workers annually by 2031 to fight climate change.
March 12, 2024 3:33 PM Worsening climate change may see insurers and lenders pulling out of communities vulnerable to extreme events.
March 12, 2024 2:20 PM The world’s third-biggest coal miner undercounts methane emissions from production of the fuel by six to seven times.
March 11, 2024 9:12 PM They protested against the effects of climate change and what they said was political inaction.
March 10, 2024 3:15 PM The pilot project involves producing aniline, a chemical used in making foams.
March 09, 2024 5:00 AM We thank Mr Eric J. Brooks for his views on PUB’s plan to build a demonstration plant with Equatic and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to explore carbon dioxide removal from seawater (Amount of carbon dioxide to be removed by $27m facility just a drop in the ocean, March 5).
March 08, 2024 10:36 PM SAO PAULO - Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell 30% in February from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government worked toward a pledge to end illegal deforestation by 2030.
March 08, 2024 9:11 AM Bleaching causes corals to expel the colourful algae living in their tissues and turn white.
March 07, 2024 9:41 PM The report recommended several measures to cope with rising temperatures.
March 07, 2024 4:00 PM The government has set a budget of over $1.7 billion for renewable energy.
March 07, 2024 3:07 PM The EPA is accused of overstepping its authority when it tightened limits on industrial PM2.5 particles.
March 07, 2024 2:29 PM The firm says consumers are being misled over the impact of proposed fuel efficiency standards on car prices.
March 07, 2024 9:11 AM The partnership will support expanded cooperation on climate, environment and energy, and education.
March 06, 2024 5:05 PM MOSCOW - International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi held \"tense\" talks over safety at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant with Russian officials on Wednesday ahead of a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, Russian news agencies reported.
March 06, 2024 3:09 PM Malaysia had asked the WTO to examine the rules restricting the EU's use of palm oil-based biofuels.
March 06, 2024 2:29 PM While heat stress is costly for all rural households, it is significantly more costly for households headed by a woman.
March 05, 2024 8:30 PM MOSCOW - Russia and China are considering putting a nuclear power unit on the Moon around 2033-35, Yuri Borisov, the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos said on Tuesday, the RIA state news agency reported. REUTERS
March 05, 2024 6:15 PM Lab to study new ways to recycle first wave of used EV batteries expected to be discarded soon.
March 05, 2024 3:10 PM Evidence showed few likely US voters identify climate change as their main voting priority.
March 05, 2024 2:27 PM The indictment also alleges Michael Hart imported HCFC 22, an ozone-depleting substance regulated under the Clean Air Act.
March 05, 2024 12:00 AM HARARE - Africa will be $2.5 trillion short of the finance it needs to cope with climate change by 2030, a U.N. official said on Monday, adding that the continent has contributed the least to greenhouse gas emissions while seeing some of the worst impacts.
March 04, 2024 9:10 PM BRUSSELS - European Union member states showed their divisions on nuclear energy policy on Monday, with one camp led by France promoting the technology and another, led by Austria and Germany, pushing to prioritise renewable energy sources instead.
March 04, 2024 6:25 PM HANOI - The streets of Vietnam's capital city Hanoi were enveloped in thick smog on Monday which dramatically reduced visibility due to air pollution caused by high levels of particulates from vehicle emissions and construction-linked fine dust.
March 02, 2024 2:08 PM The EC says it should leave the Energy Charter Treaty because it undermines efforts to fight climate change.
March 02, 2024 1:25 PM The world cannot abandon fossil fuels in the near future, Mr Ilham Aliyev says.
March 01, 2024 3:28 PM Record high energy-related emissions were driven partly by increased fossil fuel use in countries.
March 01, 2024 2:53 PM Disruption in seasonal variations of river flow could threaten water security, human livelihoods and natural ecosystems.
March 01, 2024 2:29 PM Mr Guterres calls for fairer financing for countries bearing the brunt of climate change.
February 29, 2024 6:23 PM The world likely notched its warmest February on record, as spring-like conditions caused flowers to bloom early from Japan to Mexico, left ski slopes bald of snow in Europe and pushed temperatures to 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 C) in Texas.
February 29, 2024 3:19 PM It has logged 63,040 nautical miles without using fossil fuels since it first started sailing in 2017.
February 29, 2024 2:27 PM The sole paragraph in a 56-page draft agreement that explicitly addresses the topic is stuck in an annex.
February 28, 2024 6:35 PM The Government is also supporting businesses and households in the green transition.
February 28, 2024 3:19 PM The law targets offences like illegal depletion of water resources and grave breaches of EU chemicals law.
February 28, 2024 4:02 AM SANTIAGO - A Chilean environmental court partially reversed a permit allowing Google to build a data center in the country on Tuesday, asking the U.S. company to revise its application to take into account the effects of climate change.
February 27, 2024 5:25 PM Some 120 people gathered near the National Monument before heading to Parliament.
February 27, 2024 1:42 AM BUENOS AIRES - A deadly type of bird flu has been confirmed on the mainland of Antarctica for the first time, scientists said, a potential risk for the southern region's huge penguin colonies.
February 26, 2024 10:17 PM SAO PAULO - Medium-term global growth prospects are the weakest in decades, but G20 major economies could boost growth prospects if they work together to address climate change, avoid trade restrictions and adopt worldwide principles for artificial intelligence (AI), the International Monetary Fund said.
February 26, 2024 2:10 PM The climate risks sparked by AI-driven computing are far-reaching – and will worsen without a big shift to clean power.
February 25, 2024 7:11 PM MEXICO CITY - Every spring, the streets of Mexico's capital are painted purple with the flowering of thousands of jacaranda trees. Their spectacular colors not only attract the eyes of residents and tourists, but also birds, bees and butterflies that find food and shelter in them.
February 24, 2024 7:01 AM NEW YORK - A former oil trader at Vitol, one of the world's largest energy trading companies, was convicted on Friday of corruption charges stemming from more than $1 million in bribes he paid to officials in Ecuador and Mexico to win business.
February 24, 2024 4:35 AM Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine is Europe's largest.
February 22, 2024 2:55 PM Swapping out beef for one meal can reduce a person’s daily carbon footprint by almost half, study showed.
February 22, 2024 1:38 PM The post-Cold War energy treaty exposes signatory nations to lawsuits from fossil fuel firms over net-zero policies.
February 22, 2024 8:01 AM China's heavy reliance on coal and oil to fuel its economy since 2020 has led to a large spike in CO2 emissions.
February 21, 2024 3:00 PM The Indian government is in talks with at least five private firms, including Tata Power.
February 21, 2024 3:45 AM HOUSTON - Trinidad and Tobago has hired two remediation and salvage firms to help clean up an ongoing oil spill off Tobago and salvage the leaking barge, the country's Ministry of Energy said on Tuesday.
February 20, 2024 1:33 PM Sustainable aviation fuel is crucial for the aviation sector to reach its goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
February 19, 2024 5:00 AM We refer to the Forum letter “Keep the number of Asian koels in check” (Feb 14). We thank the writer for his feedback and have got in touch with him. The National Parks Board (NParks) adopts a holistic and science- based approach to managing the population of birds in Singapore, including the Asian koel.
February 17, 2024 5:00 AM Controlling air pollution will go some way towards controlling global warming and climate change.
February 16, 2024 6:00 PM Singapore is the first country to sign a letter of intent to collaborate with Indonesia on carbon capture and storage.
February 16, 2024 6:43 AM An oil spill that has stained Tobago's coastline in the Caribbean is entering into Grenada's waters and could impact neighboring Venezuela, Tobago's Chief Secretary Farley Augustine told Reuters on Thursday.
February 15, 2024 3:36 PM Building climate-resilient railways is costly, but the price of not having them at all could be even higher.
February 15, 2024 1:10 PM Deforestation, drought, fire and rising temperatures have eroded the ability of the Amazon’s forests to withstand shocks.
February 15, 2024 10:25 AM A surge in PM2.5 levels due to a rising number of hot spots from outdoor fires is predicted this weekend.
February 15, 2024 12:14 AM A woman in her 60s used gasoline and engine oil to set fire to the door of the military recruitment centre in St Petersburg.
February 14, 2024 12:12 PM Russia has suspended annual payments to the Arctic Council until \"real work\" resumes with the participation of all member countries, Russia's RIA state news agency reported, citing the country's foreign ministry.
February 14, 2024 1:15 AM The world’s 25,000 polar bears remaining in the wild are endangered primarily by climate change.
February 13, 2024 11:41 AM An election result in Tuvalu has been delayed by two weeks as dangerous weather stops boats from bringing new lawmakers to the capital to vote for prime minister, highlighting why climate change is the top political issue in the Pacific Islands nation.
February 12, 2024 3:24 AM She danced and shouted slogans in French and English against the oil business.
February 09, 2024 4:40 PM Some impacts of warming are already irreversible, like sea level rise, driven by melting ice sheets and glaciers.
February 09, 2024 4:07 PM The team generated 69 megajoules of energy for five seconds using the Joint European Torus machines.
February 09, 2024 3:45 AM The U.S. Treasury Department said on Thursday it had put sanctions on three entities based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and one registered in Liberia for violating a cap placed on the price of Russian oil by a coalition of Western nations.
February 08, 2024 11:09 AM Forecasters warn that climate change will make Australia hotter and increase weather extremes.
February 07, 2024 4:25 PM The long-time foes find common ground as the growth of EVs threatens to slash gasoline demand.
February 07, 2024 12:50 PM Local town officials said they have no way to rescue the giant mammals.
February 06, 2024 10:39 PM U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said he would visit the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Russian-occupied Ukraine on Wednesday to see if it can be run with a reduced number of staff and whether its years-old uranium fuel is safe.
February 06, 2024 3:07 PM The European Commission is aiming for a controversial 90% net emissions cut by 2040.
February 06, 2024 3:29 AM YAGUA, Venezuela - Venezuela has received all the parts it needs to begin a maintenance program at the 146,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) El Palito refinery, with work expected to take about 20 days, oil minister Pedro Tellechea said on Monday.
February 03, 2024 5:13 PM Climate activists say the oil company is using intimidation and bullying to silence investors.
February 03, 2024 4:28 PM He says dodging hard work through selective interpretation in dealing with fossil fuel is self-defeating.
February 03, 2024 3:46 PM In Victoria state, temperatures in some areas may reach as high as 43 deg C.
February 03, 2024 9:55 AM Forecasters have warned that of the possibility of floods and landslides.
February 02, 2024 8:18 PM BRUSSELS/ Poland will no longer take the EU to court to attempt to cancel numerous climate change policies, and is preparing to withdraw lawsuits the previous government had filed to do this, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
February 02, 2024 2:33 PM All flights to and from the international airport in Vietnam's capital Hanoi have been delayed or diverted to other cities on Friday due to heavy fog and worsening air pollution, said an airport official.
February 01, 2024 3:26 PM Climate change is producing cold spells that are both milder and rarer.
February 01, 2024 10:15 AM Some people are demanding firmer action on climate change and recycling.
February 01, 2024 4:07 AM The U.S. energy secretary should build trust with the Republic of the Marshall Islands by developing a plan to communicate clearly over lingering threats from a radioactive waste dump left by U.S. nuclear weapons testing that is now seen at risk of floods from climate change, a U.S. agency said on Wednesday.
January 31, 2024 2:50 PM Small modular reactors could provide a safe and nimble source of carbon-free energy – if they can overcome challenges.
January 31, 2024 1:50 PM Only about 100 red handfish are left in the wild, threatened by warming seas, habitat changes and ravenous urchins.
January 31, 2024 6:07 AM HOUSTON/ A reimposition of U.S. sanctions on Venezuela's oil and gas sectors would hurt the OPEC country's ability to collect cash from its oil exports, crimp new energy investments and raise the risks of domestic fuel scarcity, analysts and executives said.
January 30, 2024 4:16 PM But to reach net-zero emissions by mid-century, the world needs to invest more.
January 29, 2024 5:00 AM Climate change is often seen as a topic for politicians and scientists. But it touches us every day.
January 28, 2024 7:06 PM Activists have been pulling such stunts against famous paintings to demand more action against climate change.
January 27, 2024 7:45 PM Royal Caribbean says its new ship is 24% more efficient, but that has not appeased environmentalists.
January 26, 2024 4:00 PM Demand for palm oil has been steadily rising in Indonesia, in particular due to its use in making biofuel.
January 26, 2024 8:52 AM The attacks add tension to global trade and exacerbate trade disruptions due to geopolitics and climate change.
January 26, 2024 4:40 AM Canadian cabinet members on Thursday condemned the premier of the energy-rich province of Alberta for reportedly saying that Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault should be targeted over his policies.
January 25, 2024 9:18 PM The pkant is captive, to be used for the company’s needs as opposed to providing power to other users.
January 25, 2024 3:41 PM Climate change was the primary culprit behind the devastating drought in 2023 while El Niño played a smaller role.
January 25, 2024 12:40 PM A fire broke out at a large oil refinery in the southern Russian town of Tuapse on Wednesday and emergency teams were battling the blaze, Russian news agencies quoted officials as saying.
January 24, 2024 4:05 PM “Regressive laws” were being used to slap environmental and climate activists with severe penalties.
January 24, 2024 2:32 PM Renewables are expected to overtake coal to become top source of electricity by early 2025.
January 24, 2024 12:09 PM Youth appeal and ambitious plans to combat climate change form the core of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari's effort to become PM.
January 24, 2024 8:46 AM Atomic scientists on Tuesday kept their \"Doomsday Clock\" set as close to midnight as ever before, citing Russia's actions on nuclear weapons amid its invasion of Ukraine, nuclear-armed Israel's Gaza war and worsening climate change as factors driving the risk of global catastrophe.
January 23, 2024 3:25 PM Taking a cruise could generate about double the amount of total greenhouse gas emissions as flying.
January 23, 2024 7:20 AM More wild weather is forecast on Jan 23-24 as the next storm of the season, Jocelyn, barrels in.
January 21, 2024 4:50 PM A fire broke out at a Baltic Sea terminal belonging to Novatek, Russia's largest liquefied natural gas producer, regional officials said on Sunday, amid reports of explosions and Ukrainian drone sightings in the area.
January 21, 2024 8:15 AM The heat raises the bushfire risk in an already high-risk fire season amid an El Nino weather pattern.
January 19, 2024 10:15 PM SINGAPORE - The world needs to cut high levels of debt and raise tax revenues to deal with challenges such as climate change and rapid ageing in developed countries, said Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam. Speaking at a World Economic Forum panel discussion in Davos, the President said the world needs to invest in solutions for these long-term challenges, which would require fiscal reforms. “I think the most important and most neglected area of public policy is fiscal reform,” he said on Jan 19. “We spend a lot of time talking about monetary policy, we spend very little time talking about fiscal policy reforms for a more secure future,” he added. “We’re neglecting the issues because it’s never pleasant to talk about raising revenues or raising taxes...
January 19, 2024 5:36 PM Researchers find heat spells, storms, floods, droughts and wildfires are routinely tied to global warming.
January 19, 2024 3:15 PM A Norwegian court declared the licences for the Breidablikk, Yggdrasil and Tyrving drilling projects to be invalid.
January 19, 2024 1:11 AM U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has urged Bosnian Croat lawmakers to stop holding up legislation to build a natural gas pipeline with Croatia, seen as an alternative to Russian gas, local media reported on Thursday.
January 18, 2024 4:30 PM Whoever wins the vote will help determine how fast the world can stop the worst impacts of climate change.
January 18, 2024 3:19 PM The government has opted for a far lower target of between 17 per cent and 19 per cent by 2025.
January 18, 2024 9:20 AM CHICAGO – With Chicago temperatures sinking below zero, electric vehicle charging stations have become scenes of desperation: depleted batteries, confrontational drivers and lines stretching out onto the street.
January 18, 2024 2:30 AM DAVOS, Switzerland - Brazil will need to relocate citizens in areas that have been hit repeatedly by storms and other disasters supercharged by climate change, the country's Environment Minister Marina Silva told Reuters in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday.
January 17, 2024 3:51 PM Flooding alone could cause 8.5 million deaths by then as it poses the greatest risk of climate-induced mortality.
January 16, 2024 10:47 PM Celeste Saulo said humanity was facing one of its toughest challenges and has the duty to sculpt a brighter future.
January 16, 2024 7:17 PM Canada's abnormally dry winter is worsening drought conditions across the western provinces, where most of the country's oil, gas, forest products and grain are produced.
January 16, 2024 5:00 PM Price parity with petrol-equivalents now appears to be arriving
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