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Solar panels in eastern China's Shandong province are part of the country's climate resilience planning

New emissions-cutting plan

China may strengthen climate role amid US fossil fuel push

Water shortages paired with abnormally high temperatures made for a hellish summer in Turkey

Rainfall dropped 27%

Turkey facing worst drought in over 50 years

A palm oil plantation next to a peat forest in Indonesia

Set to take effect at the end this year

EU proposes new delay to anti-deforestation rules

A herd of wild buffaloes roam a game reserve in the Chobe district of northern Botswana in September 2018

Nearly 100 buffaloes die in Namibia stampede

The Singapore-registered container ship MV X-Press Pearl carrying hundreds of containers of chemicals and plastics, as its towed away from the coast of Colombo in June 2021

Paying would 'set a dangerous precedent'

Singapore firm rejects paying $1bn Sri Lankan pollution damages

Trump was joined for the announcment by his health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a noted vaccine skeptic

Urging major changes

Trump ties autism risk to Tylenol as scientists urge caution

The North Atlantic right whale is among the species that are at-risk of extinction in Canada according to a new report from the World Wildlife Fund

Hundreds of species face extinction

Canada wildlife decline 'most severe' in decades: WWF

The United States, the world's largest oil producer, has publicly called for the International Energy Agency (IEA) to reform.

Pressure from Trump administration

IEA feels the heat as Washington pushes pro-oil agenda

The temperature soared over 41C in Rome during summer last year, when heat is estimated to have killed over 60,000 people across Europe

Dangerous heatwaves

Over 60,000 Europeans died from heat during 2024 summer: study

The burning of massive amounts of coal, oil and gas is the main driver of human-caused climate change.

Climate goals and fossil fuel plans don't add up, experts say

Protesters rallied in Manila against misused floof relief funds Sunday as a new super typhoon bears down on the country

265 km/h wind gusts

Evacuees in Philipines, Taiwan take shelter as super typhoon nears

India's Mayo College was once reserved for princes, but now educates a new elite

'Eton of the East'

India's school of maharajas now educating new elite

Floating turbines are particularly well suited to Japan as its deep coastal waters make fixing them to seabeds tricky

Floating wind power sets sail in Japan's energy shift

Hundreds joined the protest against the facility for highly radioactive waste

Tear gas employed

French nuclear waste project sparks protest

Sri Lanka launched a campaign to eradicate giant snakehead and other invasive freshwater fish species by holding a fishing competition

Fragile ecosystems

Sri Lanka tries to hook anglers on invasive fish species

After the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall, many businesses closed in East Germany, sparking a turbulent era of unemployment, population flight and social dislocation

Ex-communist region

East Germany's empty towns try to lure people with 'trial living'

Guterres said he was concerned that Nationally Determined Contributions, or national climate action plans, may not ultimately support the goal of limiting global warming

UN chief warns 1.5C warming goal at risk of 'collapsing'

UN Ocean Conference

What is the high seas treaty?

The research ship MV Anuanua Moana is pictured at a port in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, during an expedition to far-flung South Pacific waters in June 2025, spearheading efforts to dredge the tropical waters for industrial deep-sea mining.

International treaty protecting world's oceans to take effect

Some zebra stripes could help this cow fend off flies, according to Ig Nobel-winning research

Sillier side of science

Painting stripes on cows to lizards' pizza pick: Ig Nobel winners

A meteorite that broke off 2023 CXI and was found in northwestern France

Asteroid breakup

Amateur astronomers help track asteroid to French impact site

China exceeded its commitment for installed solar and wind power capacity six years earlier than planned in 2024

Dozens of countries expected

What to look for in China and Europe's climate plans

Joseph Lee, 19, one of the youth plaintiffs in the Lighthiser v. Trump case, says it was 'meaningful' to testify in the closely watched case

Against his fossil fuel agenda

Young plaintiffs stand tall after taking on Trump climate agenda in court

A flood control project intended to remedy the issue, like so many identified in the Philippines in recent weeks, has never been finished

Corruprion scandal

Philippines 'ghost' flood projects leave residents stranded

Vantara says it has 150,00 animals at its sprawling facility in India

Tapanuli orangutans

How did an Indian zoo get the world's most endangered great ape?

A wildfire burns on Canada's Vancouver Island in August

May not meet 2030 goal

Progress stalled on Canada's pollution reduction goal

The EU is wrangling over its climate targets with the clock ticking down on a key UN deadline

Plans to fight global warming for 2035

EU states agree broad UN emissions target avoiding 'embarrassment'

Australia's goals are above those of Canada and neighbouring New Zealand, but below the United Kingdom which is one of the most ambitious in the world

After warnings of threat to homes and livelihoods

Australia unveils 'anti-climactic' new emissions cuts

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