An influx of high-class sex workers have checked into hotels for the jamboree which will begin in earnest on Monday with more than 50,000 delegates expected to attend the two-week junket.
With more secondhand cars available and salary sacrifice schemes offering extra savings, the lease option is taking off When Anthony Santos was looking for a car to replace his Audi Q3, a diesel SUV, he felt reluctant about making the switch to an electric car. “I was considering it, but I probably wouldn’t have,” says Santos, a sales manager at RWinvest, a property investment company in Liverpool. But when he started looking at his options the ability to lease a used electric vehicle (EV) caught his eye. Continue reading...
Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook Let’s begin with the fundamental problem: Bill Gates is a politics denier. Though he came to it late, he now accepts the realities of climate science . But he lives in flat, embarrassing denial about political realities . His latest essay on climate, published last week, treats the issue as if it existed in a political vacuum. He writes as if there were no such thing as political power, and no such thing as billionaires. His main contention is that funds are very limited, so the delegates at this month’s climate summit in Brazil should direct money away from “near-term emissions goals” towards climate “adaptation” and spending on poverty and disease...
A second typhoon in a week is churning toward the Philippines, with residents in its path warned to flee the looming destructive winds and life-threatening storm surges. Fung-wong, known locally as Uwan, follows on the heels of Typhoon Kalmaegi, which killed almost 200 people in the central part of the archipelago nation, as well as … The post Typhoon Fung-wong nears super strength, menacing an already storm-stricken Philippines appeared first on Egypt Independent.
Earth's vital rainforests, crucial for oxygen production and climate regulation, face severe threats from deforestation and human activities. From the Amazon to the Congo and Southeast Asia, these biodiversity hotspots are home to unique species and indigenous communities. Urgent conservation is needed to protect these invaluable natural treasures from ongoing destruction.
US president also praises Hungarian leader’s hardline stance on immigration during friendly White House summit The US has granted Hungary a one-year exemption from US sanctions on importing oil and gas from Russia, according to a White House official, after Viktor Orbán pressed his case for a reprieve during a meeting with Donald Trump in Washington. Last month, Trump imposed Ukraine-related sanctions on Russian oil companies Lukoil and Rosneft that carried the threat of further sanctions on entities in countries buying oil from them. Continue reading...
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has pointed out Delhi-NCR's ongoing air pollution crisis. He shared a six-year-old social media post that remains relevant today. Since Diwali, the national capital's air quality has been poor to severe. The Air Quality Index is high, with many areas reporting very poor conditions. Shallow fog is also expected, reducing visibility.
BoM says destructive winds and ‘very dangerous thunderstorms’ are most likely across the Hunter, mid-north NSW coast and northern tablelands Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here Severe storms with the potential for destructive winds and large hail are expected to move across New South Wales on Saturday. Storms were also expected in parts of Queensland and Victoria. Sydney 32C with showers and then storms developing. Melbourne 13C with rain increasing. Brisbane 31C with a late shower or two. Perth 28C and sunny. Adelaide 18C and cloudy. Hobart 15C and partly cloudy. Canberra 26C with a shower or two and then becoming windy. Darwin 34C and partly cloudy. Continue reading...
UN chief Antonio Guterres said renewables attracted $3.6 trillion in investment this year.
The government has assured the public there would be no repeat of the 2011 floods, citing coordinated water management and readiness for tropical storm Kalmaegi despite major reservoirs nearing capacity.
Experts say the proposed legislation is full of problems, including excessive ministerial discretion and relaxing like-for-like offset rules Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Albanese government is overhauling national environment laws. It wants its changes to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act rushed through parliament before the end of the year. But should they be? Continue reading...
Trump has recently increased pressure on US allies to curb their spending on Russian oil.
Dramatic footage posted to social media from Syracuse, Sicily, shows motorbikes almost fully submerged under flood water and cars attempting to move slowly with their hazards blinking.
China will join a Brazil-led coalition to link carbon markets across major economies, one of the key environmental proposals set to be adopted at Cop30 in Belem on Friday. The so-called Open Coalition for the Integration of Carbon Markets was created to align standards and make it easier for countries to trade carbon credits. Developed by Brazil’s Ministry of Finance, it is part of the government’s Ecological Transformation Plan, a broad strategy to combine economic growth with social inclusion...
STATEMENT: COP30 Leaders' Summit Concludes with Major Pledges for Climate, Nature and People nate.shelter@wri.org Fri, 11/07/2025 - 15:09 Belém, Brazil (November 7, 2025) — The COP30 Leaders’ Summit concluded today with major announcements and pledges from world leaders, as well as political calls to action ahead of the formal negotiations beginning on November 10. New initiatives and commitments included the Tropical Forest Forever Facility, a major finance mechanism to protect forests; pledges for Indigenous Peoples and local communities’ finance and land rights; a pledge to quadruple 'sustainable fuels'; a Call to Action on Wildfire Resilience; and the Belém Declaration on Hunger, Poverty and Human-Centered Climate Action. Following is a statement from...
“All we have to do is look outside,” one delegate said. “The sea rises, the coral dies.”
The increasing ferocity and frequency of tropical storms imposes an unbearable burden on countries including Jamaica The geographically uneven risks from increasingly extreme and dangerous weather grow ever starker. As Jamaica and other Caribbean countries clear up after Hurricane Melissa , and Typhoon Kalmaegi heads west after killing nearly 200 people in the Philippines and Vietnam, the case for more international support to countries facing the most destructive impacts from global heating has never been stronger. Last week’s five-day rainfall in Jamaica was made twice as likely by higher temperatures, according to initial findings from climate attribution studies . The current death toll across the Caribbean is at least 75. The economic and social costs are hard to quantify in a region...
A new leak suggests Samsung's Galaxy S27 Ultra may feature 'Polar ID', a face authentication system using polarised light instead of infrared sensors. The rumoured upgrade promises faster unlock speeds and better spoof protection.
Workers need to meet 124.7kg limit by next November, which trade body says is required to ensure safety Thousands of North Sea oil and gas workers risk losing their jobs on offshore rigs unless they lose weight within the next year. Workers who weigh more than 124.7kg (19.5 st) fully clothed will need to shed some pounds by next November or risk being barred from working offshore, according to the industry’s trade body. Continue reading...
Damage from Typhoon Halong underscored the vulnerability of villages in western Alaska to climate crisis Darrel John watched the final evacuees depart his village on the western coast of Alaska in helicopters and small planes and walked home, avoiding the debris piled on the boardwalks over the swampy land. He is one of seven residents who chose to remain in Kwigillingok after the remnants of Typhoon Halong devastated the village last month, uprooting homes and floating many of them miles away, some with residents inside. One person was killed and two remain missing. Continue reading...
Typhoon Uwan is set to rapidly intensify and may reach Super Typhoon status, bringing a 'life-threatening' 3.0 meters storm surge risk to Luzon and Visayas.
[Daily Maverick] As our planet burns, the race to 'net zero emissions' is on to save the planet. And this path begins with underground ore.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Near the end of his first term, President Donald Trump signed into law a bill that aimed to reduce harmful, planet-warming pollutants emitted by refrigerators and air conditioners. The bipartisan measure brought environmentalists and major business groups into rare alignment on the contentious issue of climate change and won praise across the political spectrum.
EPA last year sought fines from an Alaska agency over alleged wetlands pollution. An upcoming Trump administration rule could render the case moot.
The petitions from eight refineries sought exemptions from biofuel-blending obligations for the 2021 through 2024 compliance years.
A powerful wind storm in Pennsylvania caused damage to the Cricket Wildlife Center in Alburtis and allowed three African servals to escape from the sanctuary.
[263Chat] Less than 3% of global climate finance is supporting approaches that protect workers, women, and communities during the shift to greener economies, according to a new report by ActionAid.
Rogan exposes millions to climate denial. Let’s break down his tactics. The post Five ways Joe Rogan misleads listeners about climate change appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
A major investment in power infrastructure is planned for Northeast Iceland in the coming years, aimed at boosting regional development following the shutdown of PCC’s silicon plant at Bakki, as well as facilitating new energy production, including wind power. Electricity supply capacity will also be greatly increased at Þórshöfn, improving both capacity and reliability.
As the storm moved on, recovery work began in battered towns and villages in both countries.
An analysis of environmental enforcement cases, together with targeted furloughs during the federal shutdown, shows the EPA’s shift towards deregulation.
Image: Ahead of the 30th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP30) taking place in Belém, Brazil, from 10-21 November, this IRIDE image shows the Branco River and its surrounding forests in the Brazilian state of Roraima.
A $150 million “catastrophe bond” will help with hurricane recovery, but experts hope financial markets will invest more in adaptation.
Captain Jordan Staal marked his record 910th game in a Carolina Hurricanes jersey with his first fight since 2017 during a 4-3 win over the Minnesota Wild.
This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. A severe tropical storm has formed east of the Philippines and is expected to come within 800km (497 miles) of Hong Kong early next week, the city’s weather forecaster has said. The Hong Kong Observatory said on Friday that Severe Tropical Storm Fung-Wong was centred about 1,780km east of Manila and would edge closer to the city over the next couple of...
Last month, the Trump administration levied sanctions on Russian state-affiliated energy giants Lukoil and Rosneft that could expose their foreign buyers to secondary sanctions.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and the World Resources Institute (WRI) have unveiled two Mitigation Action Facility-funded projects to advance Kenya's climate targets and sustainable development agenda: a nationwide rollout of solar-powered cold storage and an initiative to electrify two- and three-wheelers.
Lati-Yana Brown’s parents, who have been saving to pay for UK visa application, say situation is now an emergency A distraught couple are appealing to the Home Office to expedite a visa decision and speedily grant permission for their eight-year-old daughter to join them in the UK after Hurricane Melissa left her homeless and destitute in Jamaica. Lati-Yana Stephanie Brown is being cared for by her grandmother in Cash Hill, Hanover, a part of the island that was badly damaged by the storm. Her Jamaican mother, Kerrian Bigby, came to the UK to join her British father, Jerome Hardy, in April 2023. The couple married earlier this year. Continue reading...
Hungary’s prime minister also seeking an exemption on US sanctions on Russian oil after Trump’s Kremlin frustrations Viktor Orbán will visit the White House on Friday as Hungary’s far-right prime minister tries to broker another summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin that Orbán’s advisers claim could help end the war between Russia and Ukraine. Orbán, who has proposed hosting the summit in Budapest, will also seek an exemption from US sanctions against Russian energy in what will be a major test of Trump’s tougher line on the Kremlin after he accused Putin of slow-rolling negotiations to end the conflict. Continue reading...
[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican Agriculture Minister Roberto Albino believes that the most polluting economies should formally be pressured to increase funding and technical support for the most vulnerable countries in matters of climate change.
[Daily News] Geita -- THE government, through the Tanzania Electric Supply Company (TANESCO), has reaffirmed its commitment to investing in diverse sources of electricity, including solar power farms, to ensure a stable and reliable energy generation and supply.
OAK HILL, W.Va. (AP) — Lisa Emery loves to talk about her "boys." With each word, the respiratory therapist's face softens and shines with pride. But keep her talking, and it doesn't take long for that passion to switch to hurt. She knows the names, ages, families and the intimate stories of each one's scarred lungs. She worries about a whole community of West Virginia coal miners — including a growing number in their 30s and 40s — who come to her for help while getting sicker and sicker from what used to be considered an old-timer's disease: black lung.
A report from one of Australia's largest energy providers has revealed how much it costs to generate renewables compared to coal.
World leaders at a climate summit in Brazil launched the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) on Thursday, securing over $5 billion in initial pledges to reward tropical countries for preserving their forests. Brazil aims to build a $125 billion fund to provide a sustainable revenue stream, an alternative to deforestation for economic gain.
History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us As world leaders gather in Brazil this year for Cop30 – the first Amazonian Cop – it’s worth doing a quick reality check on how we are collectively tracking to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. Despite 30 years of UN climate summits, about half of the carbon dioxide accumulated in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution has been emitted since 1990. Incidentally, 1990 was the year the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the global authority on climate change science – released its First Assessment Report confirming the threat of human-caused global warming. As scientists all over the world prepare the IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report, we do...
The calls for action on opening day stood in sharp contrast to the position of the President Trump, who has called global warming a “con job.”
Extraterrestrial particles found at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean could unlock at least 30,000 years of sea ice history, a new study finds.
Thousands of North Sea oil workers will be deemed too heavy to work offshore under new regulations planned for next year.
World leaders address COP30 climate summit in Belém and take aim at Trump record on climate change.
A major solar storm has been pummeling Earth's magnetic field Thursday, raising the risk of power grid problems and satellite glitches.
Climate groups have criticised the Scottish Government’s long-awaited draft Climate Change Plan as full of "missed opportunities"
SNP ministers have been warned a new climate strategy risks setting back Scotland's net zero ambitions.
The Arctic Winter Games international committee said on Wednesday that it was "reaffirming" Team Yamal's suspension from the next event, this winter. The suspension was first introduced in 2022 following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
World’s Informal Housing Crisis Demands a Climate Response shannon.paton@… Thu, 11/06/2025 - 11:00 When floods hit my hometown in Kenya last year, it was the poorest communities who suffered most. In Nairobi, where more than 3 million people live in vulnerable homes made of wood, sheet metal and concrete — many in low-lying flood plains — the waters faced little resistance. Entire homes were swept away as people slept. The world’s housing and climate crises are deeply intertwined, wreaking havoc and reshaping life in cities around the world — from tragic flooding in Mexico to record-breaking heat waves in India. Urban communities are on the frontlines of climate extremes, bearing the brunt of escalating impacts. And while they have long been hubs of innovation...
It's all thanks to China's energy policy, Nvidia's Jensen Huang claims.
Scheme aims to raise $125bn to invest in bonds, with returns used to reward tropical countries for conservation As a battle-scarred veteran of the war against nature, Garo Batmanian has spent 45 years trying to defend the Amazon rainforest. For most of that time, the resistance he leads has been outfunded and outgunned by those who profit from destruction. The most Batmanian felt he could achieve was to slow the advance of the chainsaws and tractors. But the director-general of Brazil’s forest service feels there could be a chance at the Cop30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, next week, not just of an even fight, but perhaps a victory. There is one condition: world governments must rally behind an initiative being launched by the host nation – the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF)...
As a majority of global citizens call for bold climate change policies, a new push for information integrity aims to neutralize the climate denial that has thwarted ambitious action.
The latest deadly typhoon to tear through the Philippines has killed more than 100 people, raising fears among experts that extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and intense, and harder to prepare for. Typhoon Kalmaegi – the most recent in a string of late-season cyclones to batter the country in recent years – left a trail of devastation across the central Visayas region this week. The storm follows a worrying pattern of high-impact tropical cyclones that have struck the Philippines...
Experts say 2023, 2024 and 2025 the three hottest years in 176 years of records, with 1.5C Paris agreement target now ‘virtually impossible’ A triple-whammy of hottest years ever recorded threatens “irreversible damage”, the UN has warned as the world’s nations prepare to meet at the Cop30 climate summit in Brazil. This year is on course to be the second or third hottest ever, in records that stretch back 176 years, the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said. It means 2023, 2024 and 2025 will be the three hottest on record, demonstrating that the world is now deep into the climate crisis. Continue reading...
The Trump administration has released a final list of critical minerals that responds to the president's push to boost the coal, nuclear and copper sectors. Critics say the list is flawed.
ASA action won approval of clean air campaigners, who said some ‘seriously misleading myths’ had been debunked Adverts claiming that wood-burning stoves are “very low emissions” have been banned by the Advertising Standards Agency for being misleading and not substantiated. The claims were made on the website of the Stove Industry Association, which represents the makers and sellers of stoves in the UK. Campaigners against air pollution said they were glad the ASA had debunked some “seriously misleading myths”. Continue reading...
This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. US Rep. Mikie Sherrill won the governor’s race in New Jersey on Tuesday, running on a platform of keeping electricity prices down. Environmental groups see Sherrill’s election as a triumph for the Garden State’s struggling offshore wind sector. Sherrill, a four-term Democrat […]
As world leaders gather in Brazil for the COP30 climate summit, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday called for urgent action to drive down global temperatures and keep the 1.5°C goal within reach.
Organizers are hoping this year's COP30 will yield action to advance the many unmet promises laid out at previous such meetings.
Keir Starmer enjoyed a black tie bash last night after making the emissions-heavy 12,000-mile round trip to the Amazon to reiterate his commitment to Net Zero.
World leaders, gathering in Brazil, will try to agree on new, more ambitious plans to cut greenhouse gases.
Global crude oil and gas prices are expected to keep falling next year, easing the financial burden of the debt-ridden Oil Fuel Fund, says the Oil Fuel Fund Office (Offo).
Winds of Melissa’s strength are now five times more frequent due to the climate crisis, research says Every aspect of Hurricane Melissa, the most powerful storm ever to hit Jamaica, was worsened by the climate crisis, a team of scientists has found. Melissa caused widespread devastation when it crunched into Jamaica as a category five hurricane on October 28, with winds up up to 185mph. Continue reading...
American Samoa faces a triple threat of climate change, industrial fishing and a rising push for deep-sea mining -- forces that threaten to reshape its future.
Tuesday's election results suggest energy costs may be moving the political needle in ways that other issues, like climate change, have not.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE02047F, Paper Xiao Jun Shi, Huanwen Wang, Taoqiu Zhang, Tong Xue, Haiyong He, Hong Jin Fan For ultrafast-response supercapacitors, it is very challenging for typical porous carbon electrodes to exhibit both high volumetric (Cv) and areal (Ca) capacitances, especially under high rates, due to inefficient pore... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Ahead of the UN climate conference in Brazil, international leaders including Germany's Merz and Brazil's Lula are meeting to discuss climate action. Experts say they should reaffirm their ambition to curb emissions.
In late October, Hurricane Melissa, a powerful Category 5 storm, made landfall in the Caribbean, causing catastrophic damage to civilian infrastructure and a devastating loss of life. Humanitarian agencies have mobilized on the ground to deliver urgent assistance to affected communities facing widespread destruction of homes, mass displacement, fatalities, and severe shortages of essential services, […]
Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimated The deaths from pollution caused by Europe’s biggest plastic plant, which is being built in Antwerp, will outstrip the number of permanent jobs it will create, lawyers will argue in a court challenge issued on Thursday. In documents submitted to the court, research suggests the air pollution from Ineos’s €4bn petrochemical plant would cause 410 deaths once operational, compared with the 300 permanent jobs the company says will be created. Continue reading...
The oil and gas industry has relied on horizontal wells to boost output even as they yield steep production declines.
A slew of changes to federal health care policies are stressing cash-strapped rural hospitals as climate change spurs extreme weather threats.
The death toll in the Philippines from Typhoon Kalmaegi rose to 114 with another 127 people still missing, the disaster agency said on Thursday, as the storm that devastated the country's central regions regained strength as it headed towards Vietnam.
The head of a carbon removal startup explains why Trump climate policy has created a “golden opportunity” for Canada.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has urged major greenhouse gas emitters to make stronger commitments in a meeting with Chinese Vice-Premier Ding Xuexiang ahead of this year’s Cop30 climate talks. Beijing has been trying to maintain a prominent role in global efforts to fight climate change. A source familiar with the discussions said the talks had been “brief and cordial”, with the Brazilian president using the occasion to thank Beijing for its diplomatic support over hosting the...
Climate change enabled the storm to churn faster and grow more quickly, a rapid analysis found.
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican Ministry of Public Works has called for integrated and strengthened measures to manage river basins in order to address effectively drought, climate change and pollution.
This is our message to world leaders: make this the ‘Cop of truth’, before people lose faith Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is the president of Brazil Today, in the Brazilian Amazon, the Belém summit opens ahead of the 30th United Nations climate change conference (Cop30). I have convened world leaders in the days leading up to the conference so that we can all commit to acting with the urgency the climate crisis demands. If we fail to move beyond speeches into real action, our societies will lose faith – not only in the Cops, but in multilateralism and international politics more broadly. That is why I have summoned leaders to the Amazon: to make this the “Cop of truth”, the moment we demonstrate the seriousness of our shared commitment to the planet. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is the president...
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr declared a state of emergency on Thursday after Typhoon Kalmaegi killed at least 140 people and left another 127 missing in central provinces in the deadliest natural disaster to hit the country this year, as the storm headed towards Vietnam. Marcos’ emergency declaration, made during a meeting with disaster-response officials to assess the typhoon’s aftermath, would allow the government to disburse emergency funds faster and prevent food hoarding and...
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates has been in the news of late, with claims that he has changed his stance on climate change, following a memo he posted on his website. But is that really the case?
World leaders meet Thursday in the Brazilian Amazon in an effort to show that climate change remains a top global priority despite broken promises and the United States shunning the gathering. In a sobering reminder of the task at hand, a closely watched vote last month to reduce pollution from global shipping was rejected under intense pressure from the United States.
Japan's military has been deployed in northern regions to combat a surge in deadly bear attacks. Authorities suspect climate change is disrupting food sources, forcing bears into populated areas. Over 100 attacks and a record 12 fatalities have been reported, prompting unusual measures like military assistance and relaxed gun laws to manage the growing human-wildlife conflict.
Meanwhile Murray Watt says Coalition chaos ‘an opportunity for the Greens’. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Jane Hume plays down divisions in the Liberal party The Liberal party is in damage control, trying to hold itself together as it forms a position on energy and net zero. The Nationals have a position and the Liberal party will develop its position and we’ll announce it soon. The most important thing soon is that as a coalition, we then come up with a joint policy we can take to the next election … We need to make sure we protect our natural environment and by that I also mean our regional and rural communities who at the moment are being blanketed with renewable energy projects. Absolutely. Sussan is the leader and...
The 2025 federal budget has signalled a shift in tone on the oil and gas sector, but experts say there's still a lot of unknowns in how that will actually play out.
Scotland is speeding towards an 'oil and gas emergency' as North Sea jobs are wiped out by 'Net Zero fanaticism', Kemi Badenoch warned yesterday.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 130, Issue 11, November 2025.
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made the first 3D map of an alien planet's atmosphere, revealing extreme temperature swings on the exoplanet WASP-18b.
The Education Secretary was savaged in the House of Commons today after announcing all primary school children will get 'citizenship' classes.
Small Wind Can Bring Big Benefits to Communities in Need alicia.cypress… Wed, 11/05/2025 - 12:15 Much of the conversation around wind power often focuses on large-scale utility wind farms that provide energy to power grids deployed across cities, regions and even countries. Yet, smaller wind solutions can play a very important role in the clean energy transition. In places where solar and other renewable technologies are not technically or economically feasible, small wind projects are a cost-effective option that can help power individual homes, schools and health facilities, or provide reliable and affordable electricity to entire communities. They can also support water pumping for irrigation, telecommunications and small businesses. For example, two small wind...
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered his top officials to draft proposals for a possible test of nuclear weapons, something Moscow has not done since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. Defence Minister Andrei Belousov told Putin that recent remarks and actions by the United States meant that it was “advisable to prepare for full-scale nuclear tests” immediately. Belousov said Russia’s Arctic testing site at Novaya Zemlya could host such tests at short notice. Putin said: “I...
The postings stress that reservists will not be sent to fight in Ukraine but will remain in their home regions to guard energy infrastructure and intercept drones.
New US sanctions on Russian crude oil firms are causing major purchasers in China, India, and Turkey to distance themselves, leading to a significant decline in seaborne exports. Refiners are hesitant to accept Russian crude, resulting in increased oil volumes idling at sea and a drop in Moscow's oil revenue.
STATEMENT: EU Environment Ministers Back 2040 Emission Goal, but Plan To Reach It Remains Unclear darla.vanhoorn… Wed, 11/05/2025 - 08:33 BRUSSELS (November 5, 2025) - Today, the EU Council reaffirmed the bloc’s goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 90% by 2040 , compared to 1990 levels. While this underscores Europe’s long-term ambition, up to 5% of the reductions are expected to come from carbon offsets outside the EU, with an agreement to periodically review the plan. The EU ministers also confirmed the European Commission’s earlier “statement of intent” for the 2035 nationally determined contribution (NDC) to reduce emissions by 66.25–72.5% from 1990 levels. The NDC will be a key input into the COP30 climate summit in Brazil next week. ...
The region is home to several oil product pumping stations owned by pipeline giant Transneft.
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Texas’ independent grid is meeting a large portion of the state’s rising electricity demand through its growing fleet of solar facilities, wind power generators and batteries, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). In the first nine […]
The effort puts a spotlight on Trump administration attacks on federal datasets that don’t align with its priorities, including data dealing with gender identity; diversity, equity and inclusion; and climate change.
The prime minister's first budget opens the door to scrapping plans for a greenhouse gas emissions cap.
The Bahama nuthatch was already threatened by habitat loss and non-native predators when Hurricanes Matthew and Dorian came along. The post Major hurricanes likely pushed a small Bahamanian bird to extinction appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Typhoon Kalmaegi has devastated the Philippines, claiming at least 90 lives and leaving dozens missing, primarily in Cebu province where flash floods caused widespread destruction. Six Air Force personnel perished in a helicopter crash during a relief mission. Authorities are investigating potential causes for the severe flooding, as the nation grapples with its vulnerability to natural disasters.
University of California, San Diego, requires all students to learn about climate change, while other schools have added environmental sustainability requirements.
While most of the United States focus on electric vehicles in their attempts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, New York is taking a different approach.
STATEMENT: Baku to Belém Roadmap Lays Out Pathway to Scale Climate Finance darla.vanhoorn… Wed, 11/05/2025 - 04:02 BELÉM (November 5, 2025) —Today, the COP presidencies of Azerbaijan and Brazil published the Baku to Belém Roadmap to $1.3T. This report represents a key output agreed to at COP29, detailing how to deliver $1.3 trillion annually for developing countries from all international sources by 2035. The Baku to Belém Roadmap presents numerous options for increasing investment in climate to reach this scale. Delivering on this will be critical for COP30’s focus on moving from commitments to action. Following is a statement from Melanie Robinson, Global Director of Climate, Economics and Finance at World Resources Institute: ...
United Nations Environment Programme’s Emissions Gap Report 2025: Off Target concludes that even with full implementation of all existing pledges, global temperatures are projected to rise between 2.3°C and 2.5°C this century. Should current policies persist, global warming could potentially reach 2.8°C.
An international student has been fined A$35,000 (US$22,700) after he was caught trying to smuggle 125 spiders and insects out of Australia, as the country continues to crack down on a growing illegal wildlife trade with links to organised crime. Australian Border Force officers detained Zhang Qiran, a 22-year-old Chinese national, at Sydney International Airport on January 26 after they found 34 packages hidden inside his checked-in and carry-on luggage, the Department of Climate Change,...
Gov. Gavin Newsom condemns ICE agents at Dodger Stadium as Trump revives voter fraud claims, raising voter intimidation fears across California and New Jersey.
The bureau plans to auction more than 4,000 acres of public lands for oil and gas leasing.
Ten years after nations adopted the Paris Agreement, its objectives are in jeopardy amid rising climate pollution and a political backlash against clean energy.
Stardust Solutions is hunting government investments in its technologies that aim to cool the planet by deflecting heat from the sun.
Catherine McKenna says the Paris Agreement was an incredible feat. “Now: Do the work.”
The pressure is on for leaders attending the 30th UN climate conference to prevent global warming from accelerating further. So where are countries making strides?
At COP15, the developing countries were calling for the temperature to not rise above 1.5 degrees and they ignored the Copenhagen Accord which agreed to 2.0 degrees Then at COP21, while the developing countries were still calling for the temperature to not arise above 1.5, they were ignored again. And then, the developing countries praised […]
Exclusive: Experts say impact on people of colour and those who do not drive is ‘grave environmental injustice’ Air pollution in England and Wales has fallen, but the poorest neighbourhoods are still exposed to the most extreme levels of toxins, new analysis has found. Experts have called this a “grave environmental injustice” as the inequality around who is exposed to air pollution has dramatically grown in the last decade. Continue reading...
[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Professor Makane Mbengue, the African Union's External Counsel at the International Court of Justice, underscored that African states' rights and duties in the fight against global warming can no longer be treated as mere political aspirations.
Researchers behind report cited by some in the Coalition say their work is based on various assumptions – largely involving cost to overseas customers, not Australians Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here University energy researchers say their modelling of the economics of Australia reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions – used by the Nationals and some Liberal MPs as part of a justification to drop the goal – has been misrepresented. The Nationals leader, David Littleproud, has repeatedly claimed that reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions would “cost Australians $9tn”, pointing to the work of Net Zero Australia (NZA). Continue reading...
[This Day] Vice President Kashim Shettima on Tuesday departed the nation's capital, Abuja, for Brazil to represent President Bola Tinubu at the 30th session of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, tagged COP 30, holding in the South American country.
In October and November, Atlantic salmon return from their ocean feeding grounds to the rivers where they were born, looking for an ideal place to spawn. But in Nova Scotia, the ongoing drought is threatening some fish as they attempt to complete an important step in their life cycle.
At least 75 people were confirmed dead across the Caribbean, including 43 in Haiti and 32 in Jamaica Jamaican prime minister Andrew Holness has said last week’s Hurricane Melissa , the strongest-ever storm to hit the country’s shores, caused damage to homes and key infrastructure equivalent to roughly 28% to 32% of last year’s gross domestic product. Holness told the Caribbean nation’s lower house the $6bn to $7bn estimate was conservative, based on damages assessed so far, and short-term economic output could decline by 8% to 13%. Continue reading...
The Labour mayor has jetted off to Poland, Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, France and Brazil over the last year, racking up thousands of air miles and costing the tax payer tens of thousands in costs.
Video: 00:30:00 The Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite has joined the Sentinel-1 mission in orbit. Launch took place on 4 November 2025 at 22:02 CET (18:02 local time) on board an Ariane 6 launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.The Sentinel-1 mission delivers high-resolution radar images of Earth’s surface, performing in all weathers, day-and-night. This service is used by disaster response teams, environmental agencies, maritime authorities and climate scientists, who depend on frequent updates of critical data.Sentinel-1D will work in tandem with Sentinel-1C, flying in the same orbit but 180° apart, to optimise global coverage and data delivery. Both satellites have a C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) instrument on board, which captures high-resolution imagery of Earth’s...
Hektoria Glacier lost 8km of ice in just two months.
When the winter weather hits, removing the ice that has accumulated on your pathways can be a pain. Here's a common garden tool that can help.
Video: 01:17:22 The Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite has joined the Sentinel-1 mission in orbit. Launch took place on 4 November 2025 at 22:03 CET (18:03 local time) on board an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The Sentinel-1 mission delivers high-resolution radar images of Earth’s surface, performing in all weathers, day-and-night. This service is used by disaster response teams, environmental agencies, maritime authorities and climate scientists, who depend on frequent updates of critical data.The Sentinel-1D satellite will work in tandem with Sentinel-1C, flying in the same orbit but 180° apart, to optimise global coverage and data delivery. Both satellites have a C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) instrument on board, which captures high-resolution imagery...
With the weather phenomena known as La Nina expected to make its return this winter, it is shaping up to be a banner ski season on Alberta's Rocky Mountain ski hills.
The Rangers are the biggest flop on Broadway these days and exited the ice at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday to a chorus of boos.
PARIS - Existing national commitments to slash heat-trapping pollution would limit global warming to 2.5 degrees Celsius in this century — nowhere near enough to avoid devastating climate impacts despite a sweep of new pledges, the United Nations warned on Tuesday.
Building Better Climate Initiatives: 7 Essential Ingredients for Effective Intergovernmental Cooperation margaret.overh… Tue, 11/04/2025 - 15:56 The number of cooperative initiatives aimed at combating climate change has ballooned over the past decade. Since the Paris Agreement, governments have launched hundreds of pledges and coalitions to tackle everything from renewable energy , zero-emissions transport and methane , to forests , food systems and adaptation . As the number of joint announcements and initiatives grows , so too do expectations that these efforts can close the ambition and implementation gaps left by slower-moving formal negotiations. Cooperative initiatives are critical because they bring together "coalitions of the willing" to tackle specific...
Iridescent, glowing scale worms, new families of sea stars, and more were found in Antarctic waters.
US technology company’s engineers want to exploit solar power and the falling cost of rocket launches Google is hatching plans to put artificial intelligence datacentres into space, with its first trial equipment sent into orbit in early 2027. Its scientists and engineers believe tightly packed constellations of about 80 solar-powered satellites could be arranged in orbit about 400 miles above the Earth’s surface equipped with the powerful processors required to meet rising demand for AI. Continue reading...
The chancellor appears to believe voters will forgive a broken promise in return for meaningful investment Chancellor considers cut to green levies in effort to reduce cost of energy bills In April 1975, the Labour chancellor Denis Healey sought to grip the UK’s runaway inflation and rising unemployment rates – an economic crisis triggered by the shock rise in global oil prices – by raising the basic rate of income tax . Now Rachel Reeves , faced with her own set of difficult economic circumstances, including a multi-billion-pound budget shortfall, is contemplating the same remedy – breaking a 50-year taboo by becoming the first chancellor since Healey to hike the basic rate of income tax. Continue reading...
A polar vortex collapse is set to freeze dozens of states and potentially bring snow two months before winter begins.
The rise of global temperatures has slowed only slightly over the past year and poses possible climate risks and damage, according to a U.N. assessment.
A short but intense storm brought wind, rain, flash flooding and hail. Finding accurate information was a challenge.
Apparently, there can be too much of a good thing when it comes to renewable energy sources.
BELEM, Brazil (AP) — For 30 years, world leaders and diplomats have gathered at United Nations negotiating sessions to try to curb climate change, but Earth's temperature continues to rise and extreme weather worsens.
In this excerpt from "Sink or Swim," author Susannah Fisher explores the future of human migration, and what that will look like based on the difficult choices we make in the coming years.
It is the latest in a series of oil spills in the Black Sea in recent months.
Under the Burn Wise program, EPA partnered with industry to help stove owners voluntarily reduce air pollution.
On a reporting trip in July 2023, science journalist Elizabeth Kolbert had an “amazing” stroke of luck. It was her last day in Dominica, in the Caribbean, where she’d been shadowing a group of scientists attempting to translate sperm whale vocalizations with the help of artificial intelligence. While out at sea, she and the research […]
A short but intense storm brought wind, rain, flash flooding and hail. Only one radar image shows it.
The number of EV charging points is growing in Germany, but availability varies considerably. Where can electric car drivers charge most easily – and where there is still room for improvement?
Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline . Does cold weather disprove human-caused climate change The planet continues to warm due to human activity; bouts of cold weather don’t change this. Satellites around the world measure temperatures at different places throughout the year. These are averaged to calculate annual global temperatures. The past ten years (2015-2024) have been the ten hottest since modern record-keeping began in 1850, and 2024 was the all-time hottest. The last time Earth had a colder-than-average year was 1976. Weather refers to meteorological conditions — heat, humidity, precipitation...
Elon Musk wants to block the sun to solve global warning, but scientists warn the controversial technique could be disaster waiting to happen.
Oil and gas company says it will review its portfolio and push to sell off assets faster Business live – latest updates BP has said it will ramp up efforts to hive off parts of the business, as the energy company reported a drop in profits in its latest quarter. The company reported an underlying profit of $2.2bn (£1.7bn) in the three months ended in September. It marked a slowdown against its previous quarter, when it made a profit of $2.4bn, but beat analyst expectations of $1.98bn. Continue reading...
Hurricane Ida revealed a fragile insurance industry ill-prepared for the consequences of climate change. More than four years later, what's changed?
In 2015, nearly 200 countries adopted the Paris Agreement, the first global pact to fight climate change. Here's a comparison of then and now — in terms of the state of the climate, the way we live and our technologies, our laws and where we're putting our money.
Resources for the Future examined how the Lone Star State and other oil and gas states tax producers and save what they collect.
The budge office wanted to weaken curbs on cars' soot- and smog-forming air pollutants as it unraveled a key climate policy.
[Daily Trust] The Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) has announced plans to deepen its collaboration with PowerChina, a Chinese central state-owned enterprise (SOE) and leading global Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) firm, to jointly develop utility-scale renewable energy projects across Nigeria.
Nature legislation should not cede such ‘significant powers’ to a minister even in ‘national interest’, thinktank says Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Political integrity experts have raised concerns about Labor ’s proposed new nature laws, including a contentious new “national interest” exemption, as pressure mounts on the Albanese government to rethink major parts of the reform. As debate on legislation to overhaul the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act resumes in the lower house on Tuesday, the Centre for Public Integrity has identified several “integrity risks” that threaten to undermine attempts to fix the broken system. Continue reading...
Several hundred protesters cordoned into a fenced-in area at Sydney’s Tumbalong Park. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Melissa McIntosh wants Liberals to ‘get their act together’ Internal divisions haven’t stopped Coalition MPs fronting up to their morning interviews today, including shadow communications minister Melissa McIntosh , who tells ABC RN Breakfast the public want her party to “get their act together”. This is not an ideological thing that we don’t believe in climate change or any of that sort of stuff. They’re just really struggling. Their power prices are up … Dan Tehan has been very consultative with colleagues for weeks now, and there’s been a number of working groups, a number of meetings, a number of sessions...
Expert Q&A: What Should the 2025 UN Climate Summit (COP30) Achieve? margaret.overh… Mon, 11/03/2025 - 15:03 While the impacts of climate change are becoming ever-clearer, so too are the benefits of action. The shift toward technologies like renewable energy and electric vehicles is already cleaning the air and preventing deaths from pollution. Countries investing in greener development models are creating millions of new jobs in areas like power and manufacturing. Clean energy is lowering electricity costs and bringing power to those without. Yet this transition is not happening nearly fast enough to prevent increasingly dangerous climate impacts, and progress remains uneven. As some countries forge ahead on low-carbon development, others are pulling...
VALENCIA (SPAIN) - The heavily criticised leader of Spain's Valencia region said on Monday he was stepping down, a year after the area was hit by floods that were the country's deadliest natural disaster in a generation.
The Grammy-winning reggae singer says the storm was "very frightening, especially for my young kids".
More than 150,000 people took shelter in coastal provinces of the Philippines on Monday as powerful Typhoon Kalmaegi made landfall in a region hit by some of the country’s deadliest storms. The typhoon, with winds of 150km/h (93 mph) and gusts of up to 205km/h, made first contact in Dinagat Islands province, part of the Visayas island chain, before 11pm local time, the national weather service said. Barely an hour earlier, 34-year-old Miriam Vargas sat in the darkness with her two children after...
Changes for the Office of Air and Radiation are the most significant since implementation of the landmark 1990 Clean Air Act amendments.
A new study suggests that changes to Hektoria Glacier are unprecedented - but not all scientists agree.
Just like every financial advisor teaches the same lesson: diversify to manage risk and improve returns. Climate strategy is no different. No single approach—technological or nature-based—can deliver the speed, scale, and durability we need, argues Gabriel Labbate, head of the Climate Mitigation Unit at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
Saudi Arabia has paused on its sprawling $2trillion Vision 2030 strategy amid falling oil prices and a realisation that far too much money had been spent already.
Guest commentary by Figen Mekik Climate change has become “that” topic – like evolution of species, plate tectonics, or AI where the public has heard so much about it that many think . Such confidence can be both a good and bad thing. The upside is that the biggest global societal problem of our time, climate change, has become a part of the broader culture. agrees that […] The post Raising Climate Literacy first appeared on RealClimate.
An experimental reactor developed in the Gobi Desert by the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics has achieved thorium-to-uranium fuel conversion, paving the way for an almost endless supply of nuclear energy. The achievement makes the 2 megawatt liquid-fuelled thorium-based molten salt reactor (TMSR) the only operating example of the technology in the world to have successfully loaded and used thorium fuel. According to the academy, the experiment has provided...
David Cash will lead Harvard's program meant to link university research to governments and companies to advance climate solutions.
The state-owned oil company Petroecuador has declared an emergency in the Trans-Ecuadorian Pipeline System, its main crude transport line, after landslides
More than 150,000 jobs have been lost or delayed nationwide due to the Trump administration's hostility toward clean energy, according to a new report from advocacy group Climate Power.
With the EPA’s top research office dismantled, America’s ability to respond to toxic spills, floods, and wildfires is in jeopardy. The solution: build an independent environmental science institute. The post Who protects us when the EPA won’t? appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
As a majority of global citizens call for bold climate change action, a new push for information integrity aims to neutralize the climate denial that has thwarted ambitious action.
Tides and glacial earthquakes caused record ice loss at Hektoria Glacier
Mazón faced daily calls for his resignation after flooding in October 2024 killed 229 people Following Mazón’s speech, broadcaster Cadena Ser spoke with Rosa Álvarez, who heads an association representing victims of the floods. “It was a painful, indignant speech... He made himself out to be victim ,” she said. Continue reading...
[Afrobarometer] Many report taking steps to adjust to changing weather patterns.
[Liberian Investigator] Liberia National Bar Association (LNBA) has emphasized the critical intersection of climate change, gender, and the rule of law, calling for urgent measures to protect women's rights and reproductive security amid Liberia's escalating environmental challenges. Cllr. Bornor M. Varmah, president of the LNBA spoke on behalf of the legal organization.
When it comes to renewable energy, too many homeowners and businesses are left feeling overwhelmed. Technical jargon, confusing pricing, and mixed messages can make the journey to cleaner, smarter energy more complicated than it needs to be.
Leader of Spanish region’s People’s party had clung to power despite calls for him to stand down over 2024 disaster ‘Mud on our hands; blood on his’: fury lingers one year after deadly floods Carlos Mazón, the embattled president of the eastern Spanish region of Valencia, has bowed to public fury and political pressure by resigning over his botched handling of the deadly floods that killed 229 people in the area just over a year ago. Mazón, a member of the conservative People’s party (PP), had hung on despite calls for him to stand down after it emerged that he spent more than three hours having lunch with a journalist as the floods hit and people were drowning in their homes, garages and cars. Continue reading...
The Trump administration could be days away from proposing a five-year drilling plan that would open new waters off the Pacific and eastern Gulf coasts to oil and gas rigs.
Southeast Asia’s liquefied natural gas demand will almost double from last year’s level by 2030
Scottish ministers are putting the finishing touches to a plan aimed at reducing planet-warming emissions.
Exclusive: Former PM and ex-Tory leader William Hague warn UK lacks high-risk capital and infrastructure to harness benefits of powerful technology Tony Blair has said “history won’t forgive us” if the UK falls behind in the race to harness quantum computing, a frontier technology predicted to trigger the next wave of breakthroughs in everything from drug design to climate modelling. The former British Labour prime minister, whose thinktank and consultancy, the Tony Blair Institute, is backed by tech industry leaders including the Oracle founder, Larry Ellison, warned: “The country risks failing to convert its leadership in quantum research.” Continue reading...
[New Times] One of Rwanda's clean cooking programmes that provides improved charcoal stoves is poised to bring in an estimated Rwf27.5 billion by 2026 through the sale of carbon credits, according to officials.
US President Trump's order for nuclear weapons system tests sparked global concern about a return to nuclear explosions. Energy Secretary Chris Wright clarified these are non-nuclear system tests, not detonations, aimed at modernizing the arsenal. This follows Trump's statement about resuming testing on an equal basis with other nations, despite a decades-long moratorium.
Fiona Muir, of Ealing, West London, has told the Daily Mail she and her neighbours have been leaving their recycling on a grass verge for years as they live on a red route.
Blazes involving the renewable energy devices and their batteries rose faster than the rate of installations in 2024, soaring by 60 per cent over the last two years.
As the long arm of the fossil fuel lobby enters the classroom, some US science teachers are finding their job requires more than simply imparting knowledge and wisdom.
Critics believe cut would mostly benefit better-off people with larger homes and increase carbon emissions Proposals being considered by Rachel Reeves to cut tax on electricity bills will backfire, experts have warned, resulting in a giveaway to richer homeowners and undermining the UK’s climate commitments. The chancellor is understood to be looking at plans to eliminate the 5% VAT charge on electricity bills as a fast and simple way to reduce bills for consumers and ease the cost of living pressures that have aided the rise of Reform UK. Continue reading...
Days after Hurricane Melissa hit, communities are isolated with little food, no water, and no idea of when normalcy will return.
Saudi Arabia is turning its oil wealth toward its massive AI ambitions. Its chief investment vehicle is Humain, a homegrown company that is building out a full stack of data centers, cloud capabilities, large language models and applications. It’s owned by the Kingdom’s nearly $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund. Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman unveiled … The post Saudi Arabia is making a massive bet on becoming a global AI powerhouse appeared first on Egypt Independent.
A Ukrainian drone attack damaged at least two foreign vessels and the oil terminal infrastructure at Russia’s key Black Sea port of Tuapse on Sunday, as Kyiv tries to undermine Russia’s war effort by targeting its energy infrastructure. For several months, Ukraine has been striking Russian oil refineries, depots and pipelines in a bid to undermine the Russian economy, and some media have reported that Western intelligence agencies have helped Kyiv with the strikes. Russian authorities said two...
Research shows that lands managed by Indigenous Peoples have lower deforestation rates and store significantly more carbon than other areas.
Humans likely left a lot of archaeological evidence along the Bering Land Bridge when they crossed from Asia to Alaska during the last ice age. But will we ever be able to dive down to examine it?
They say history doesn’t repeat itself — but there are concerns that Scotland's wind energy revolution is providing echoes of the past.
David Littleproud says he informed the Liberal leader days ago of the policy position his party was considering Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The National party has unanimously decided to its scrap net zero commitments after a party room meeting on Sunday, piling pressure on Sussan Ley and the Liberals as they continue to debate their own energy platform. The party leader, David Littleproud, said the Nationals would focus on “aspirations” rather than targets and align Australia’s emissions reduction to other OECD countries. Littleproud said he was “proud” of the decision. Continue reading...
A cruise around Australia was cancelled after an elderly passenger was left behind on a remote island and found dead a day later. Suzanne Rees, 80, was hiking with fellow passengers of the Coral Adventure ship to a lookout spot on Lizard Island, in the Great Barrier Reef, on October 25. Rees felt unwell and began heading back to the ship unescorted, according to national broadcaster ABC. The cruise ship left the island that evening, without Rees on board, and only returned hours later in search...
A former Trump golf club employee was mistakenly deported to Mexico after ICE agents placed him on the wrong plane and expelled him without a hearing. Federal officials later admitted the error.
The Canadian Red Cross has sent more than 18,000 relief items to Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa struck as a Category 5 storm, leaving at least 19 dead and widespread devastation.
Fortnite's Springfield map is now live, featuring iconic locations like the Nuclear Power Plant and Evergreen Terrace in its signature cel-shaded style. This smaller map accommodates 80 players, promising quicker, more thrilling battles. Explore nine distinct areas, from Burns Manor to the Donut District, for a truly immersive Simpsons experience.
A weakened Hurricane Melissa is making for a wet and windy weekend in much of Atlantic Canada, with some areas warned of possible flurries as the storm weakens.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 130, Issue 21, 16 November 2025.
Two Shetland businesses have teamed up to launch a new technology creating energy out of the waste from windfarms, aquaculture and fishing.
This live blog has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Get faster notifications on the latest updates by downloading our app. A tropical depression has formed east of the Philippines and is expected to drift northwest, but it will not enter within 800km (497 miles) of Hong Kong, according to the city’s weather forecaster. The Hong Kong Observatory said it could strengthen into a severe tropical storm as early...
Unusually warm ocean temperatures fueled one of the worst hurricanes on record. New research finds climate change increased the storm’s likelihood.
The question is not whether we will reshape our institutions to manage climate impacts, but how For decades, “stopping climate change” has been the singular goal of climate politics. Across the political spectrum, from grassroots climate campaigners to elite UN negotiators, reducing carbon emissions to avoid future catastrophe has been the organizing logic of climate policies. Yet climate change has arrived and its material impacts are already being felt. This means that climate politics can no longer focus only on preventing future catastrophes. It must now also encompass struggles over how society manages climate impacts already reshaping economic and social life. Insurance markets, housing, water and land use policies, national labor markets, and local economies – all will need to be...
[Leadership] Ahead of the 30th session of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 30) in Brazil, President Bola Tinubu has approved the adoption of a National Carbon Market Framework, the operationalisation of the Climate Change Fund and the restoration of the National Council on Climate Change (NCCC) to the budget line.
Keir Starmer is taking the lead on tackling the climate crisis. With the US backing away, now is the moment when other nations must step up With the once-familiar pillars of the old world order crumbling and the US stepping away from action on climate crisis , it falls to others to assume global environmental leadership. Those leaders who understand the urgency should seize the opportunity afforded by Brazil hosting Cop30 this month to build a coalition of committed countries determined to turn back the climate deniers. Many now see China – the most successful manufacturer of solar, wind, battery and electric vehicle technologies – as the global low-carbon powerhouse. But its national emission goals , recently submitted to the UN, are underwhelming and it is unclear whether China is...
Jamaica plans to set up field hospitals in five western parishes after Hurricane Melissa caused extensive damage to health facilities, Health Minister Christopher Tufton has said. Local media reports from Friday quote Tufton as saying that additional support was needed for doctors and nurses, many of whom were already stretched to the limit. Power and water services remain disrupted across many areas due to damaged infrastructure and fuel stations in the west of the country have reported low or...
President Trump announced the US will resume nuclear testing, citing actions by Russia and China. This decision reverses a long-standing moratorium, raising concerns about environmental hazards and global tensions. Experts question the technical necessity, while allies warn of an arms race.
Five hours after the Coral Adventurer left Lizard Island without the 80-year-old, it turned back. Her body was found the next day, and her family want answers The appeal of Lizard Island is its remoteness. The Great Barrier Reef island, 250km from Cairns in Queensland’s tropical north, is known for its impressive snorkelling, with giant clams nestled among the coral. It also has a scientific research station. Tourists are mostly kept at bay by its inaccessibility and eye-wateringly high accommodation prices. Continue reading...
Ayesha Curry has shown support for those affected by Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica. She shared posts from World Central Kitchen and the NBA highlighting relief efforts. Curry praised the 'boots on the ground' teams ensuring people are fed. Her actions demonstrate her commitment to philanthropy, as seen through her Eat. Learn. Play Foundation.
Cenovus and Exxon both published their third-quarter financial results on Friday as world oil markets continue to be impacted by Trump tariffs and increased production from OPEC+.
A surprising new study has revealed how 40 years of work to repair the ozone layer may end up causing its own climate change emergency that no one saw coming.
People of Jamaican coastal town described as storm’s ground zero are traumatised and desperate for help It is a treacherous journey to Black River, a coastal town in Jamaica’s southwestern parish of St Elizabeth, which this week bore the brunt of Hurricane Melissa, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record. Uprooted trees and lamp-posts, rubble from landslides, huge potholes and miles of thick, slippery silt from severe flooding have turned the route into a dangerous obstacle course. But most daunting is the water that you encounter as you pass through communities that overnight have become rivers. Continue reading...
In what will hopefully be the final act of the suddenly historic 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, ex-Melissa will be sweeping past Newfoundland, Canada late tonight as an extratropical storm with Cat 1 winds. The post Hurricane Melissa dies over the cold waters of the North Atlantic appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Despite US pressure, Indian Oil Corporation has ordered five Russian crude oil shipments for December delivery from non-sanctioned entities. While some Indian refiners have suspended purchases due to sanctions, IOC plans to continue procuring Russian crude as long as it complies with regulations.
[Ghanaian Times] Ghana requires an estimated $562 billion financing to implement its energy transition framework from now to 2070, when the country is expected to phase out its reliance on fossil-based energy, with its challenges of global warming to a zero carbon system -- a much cleaner energy -- in line with global demands.
The Category 1 hurricane was heading in a northeasterly direction, about 800 kilometres south of Nova Scotia, feeding some of its moisture into the low-pressure system.
CityMetrics Dashboard Helps Cities Understand and Reduce Climate Risks sarah.brown@wri.org Fri, 10/31/2025 - 09:48 The new CityMetrics site from WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities offers an interactive dashboard where users can explore key urban indicators and geospatial datasets from more than 60 cities that WRI works with. It includes cities participating in the Deep Dive Cities Initiative , Cities4Forests and UrbanShift . The dashboard is organized around seven key themes related to sustainability and resilience — flooding, heat, air quality, accessibility, land protection, biodiversity and climate change mitigation. It provides datasets and maps that let users analyze metrics within each city over a selected period and compare information across...
Reducing Food Loss and Waste Could Feed More Than 7 Million Kenyans Every Year alicia.cypress… Fri, 10/31/2025 - 09:30 Africa is the only region where hunger is on the rise. Today, more than 300 million people — one in four Africans — are hungry and if current trends persist, the continent will account for over 60% of the world’s hungry by 2030. In Kenya, at least a quarter of the population faces severe food insecurity, even as up to 40% of the food produced (worth an estimated $578 million) is lost or wasted each year. This not only squanders scarce resources such as land, water, labor and energy but also fuels climate change, contributing to 21% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. While often discussed together, food loss and food waste are distinct:...
[World Bank] Washington -- The World Bank today approved an additional grant of $18.34 million to support Sierra Leone in enhancing biodiversity protection, environmental sustainability, and climate change resilience. This funding, provided through the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) under the Global Environment Facility (GEF), will scale up ongoing activities under Phase 2 of the West Africa Food System Resilience Program (FSRP), focusing on Nature-Based Solutions (NBS).
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE05762K, Paper Weizhen Fan, Yifan Sha, Jianan Zhang, Litao Shi, Anfei Wang, Hai Su, Keming Song, Yan-Bing He, Junmin Nan As one of the most promising alternatives to LiPF6 salt in the fast-charging electrolyte, the application of high-content lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (LiFSI) in the LiFePO4 batteries has been seriously hindered by... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
As the Caribbean reels from the devastating impact of Hurricane Melissa, UN humanitarian agencies are stepping up efforts to bring relief to thousands of affected people.
Three activists with "Just Stop Oil" were acquitted Friday by a British court for spraypainting Britain's ancient Stonehenge site.
US refugee groups say move ‘lowers our moral standing.’ Plus, unionized Starbucks workers to vote on strikes over pay and conditions Don’t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here Good morning. The Trump administration is going to restrict the number of refugees it admits into the US next year to the token level of just 7,500 – and those spots will mostly be filled by white South Africans. What reason has been given for prioritizing white South Africans? The Trump administration has repeatedly claimed that the South African government is implementing anti-white policies through a new land expropriation law. The South African government has called the claims false. What was the other shooting by ICE agents in LA recently? Last week, federal agents shot an LA man...
[This Day] Transcorp President and Group Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Owen Omogiaf, has called for swift action to expand Africa's energy supply, emphasizing that access to affordable and reliable energy is vital for the continent's economic growth and participation in the global sustainability agenda.
Indiana Jones star calls US president one history’s greatest criminals for attacks on science and boosting of fossil fuels Harrison Ford has said that Donald Trump ’s assault upon measures to address the climate crisis “scares the shit out of me” and makes the US president among the worst criminals in history. In a blistering attack upon the president, Ford told the Guardian that Trump “doesn’t have any policies, he has whims. It scares the shit out of me. The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy. [Trump] knows better, but he’s an instrument of the status quo and he’s making money, hand over fist, while the world goes to hell in a handbasket.” Continue reading...
[African Union] Youth-led innovation lies at the heart of Africa's transformation. With more than 70% of the continent's population under the age of 35, Africa's young innovators are shaping solutions to address the continent's most pressing challenges from climate change and health to digital inclusion and industrialization. Recognizing this, the AU Women, Gender and Youth Directorate (WGYD), hosted the African Union Innovation Festival 2025 (InnoFest'25) from 22-24 October 2025 at the AU Headquarters in Addis Ababa,
Despite the administration’s enthusiasm for developing the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, oil companies have shown little interest - leaving the state to spend millions propping up the idea.
Authorities report at least 30 people have been killed in Haiti and 19 in Jamaica as a result of the devastating storm.
[IPS] Best intentions to create a green wall to capture millions of tons of carbon while tackling desertification are up against a lack of funding and banditry in Jigawa State, northwestern Nigeria.
The lingering after-effects of nuclear tests by the world’s nuclear powers have left a devastating impact on hundreds and thousands of victims world-wide. The history of nuclear testing, according to the United Nations, began 16 July 1945 at a desert test site in Alamogordo, New Mexico when the United States exploded its first atomic bomb. […]
Utility executives indicate the administration has ordered J.H. Campbell to stay open because of the president's declared energy emergency.
Gov. JB Pritzker has said he will sign the bill, which aims to increase grid reliability and lower electricity prices.
Cempasuchil growers near Mexico City say they've been left reeling by torrential rains and drought.
Wearing large rubber boots, Nadine Mitschunas joyfully handled mature rice plants peeking through the water of her small plot growing in the fertile soil of eastern England. Growing rice “has not been done before in the UK”, said Mitschunas, a field ecologist at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH). But as temperatures warm due to climate change, “it’s not such a crazy idea because it seems to work”, she added. As rice grows in eastern England, lemon groves and chickpeas were also...
A major Australian company is preparing to cut hundreds of jobs.
Warming shelter in Saskatoon to open right beside Salvation Army. Representatives from Salvation Army alarmed this may make the neighborhood rough.
The southwest of the island bore the full force Hurricane Melissa's 185 mph (295km/h) winds on Tuesday.
Global Affairs Canada wrote Thursday afternoon that it was 'not aware of any Canadian citizens who have been injured or killed as a result of this hurricane.'
HCL co-founder Ajai Chowdhry proposes recycling e-waste to meet India's rare-earth mineral demand, suggesting this can fulfill 30-40% of domestic needs. This faster alternative to mining, which takes five to seven years, addresses the strategic risk posed by China's dominance in rare earth supply, crucial for technologies like EVs and batteries.
Energy efficiency advocate Brendan Haley highlights the benefits of heat pumps – which heat and cool homes – by dressing as one for Halloween. The post A costume to chill for appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
President Trump ordered the immediate resumption of nuclear weapons testing, ending a 33-year moratorium, citing China's advancements. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended the move as crucial for America to "catch up" with China's nuclear power development. The announcement preceded high-stakes trade talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Australia's government introduces comprehensive environmental reform legislation promising A$6.9 billion annual economic benefits through faster project approvals while establishing a new National Environmental Protection Agency. The landmark bill faces political challenges requiring crossbench support.
Experts say Melissa, now a Category 2 hurricane, is expected to bring dangerous winds, flooding and storm surges to the Bahamas on Thursday, followed by Bermuda.
Cuba evacuated 735,000 residents before the storm left widespread destruction.
Two new rapid attribution studies have found that climate change increased Melissa's winds by 7-10% and damage by 12%. The post Climate change strengthened Hurricane Melissa, making the storm’s winds stronger and the damage worse. appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
China already runs more than 50 battery recycling plants of similar scale to US' biggest.
World leaders will soon gather for the annual UN meeting on how to tackle climate change.
[Daba Finance] Egypt-based renewable energy utility Karm (KarmSolar) has announced its first international expansion with the launch of KarmCyprus The company secured €5 million in project financing from Eurobank to build a 7.6 MW solar photovoltaic plant in Monagroulli, southern Cyprus The expansion mirrors Karm's vertically integrated model across power generation, distribution, storage, and e-mobility
The world's eyes will be on the Amazon in coming weeks as Brazil hosts the UN climate summit. With the country's mixed environmental record, can Brazil's government help push through vital climate action?
Exclusive: Just Stop Oil activist was banned from attending gatherings, including meeting a friend in a cafe, without permission Environmental protesters are being given licence conditions on release from jail that are supposed to be limited to extremism cases. Ella Ward, 22, was banned from going to any meetings or gatherings, except for worship, without permission from her probation officer, although the Ministry of Justice dropped the condition after she brought a legal challenge. Continue reading...
A massive Russian attack hit Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, killing one person and prompting power cuts in several regions, Kyiv authorities said on Saturday. Moscow has in recent months escalated its attacks on energy infrastructure in Ukraine, damaging natural gas facilities which produce the main fuel for heating in the country. Experts have said Ukraine risks heating outages ahead of the winter months. “The enemy is massively attacking Ukraine’s energy infrastructure again. Because of...
WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump has granted Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban a one-year exemption from sanctions for buying Russian oil and gas after the close right-wing allies held a chummy White House meeting on Friday.
Rooftop solar is spreading fast in Jamaica, and people with panels got their power back almost immediately. The ‘entire neighborhood benefits,’ one resident said.
Energy firms and charities urge chancellor to avoid short-term fix that could also harm low-income households Rachel Reeves has been told that cutting funding for home insulation at the budget would risk the UK’s climate goals and hurt low-income households in a joint intervention by energy firms, fuel poverty charities and environmental groups. In a letter to the chancellor, more than 60 groups and companies urged Reeves not to take such a damaging “short-term fix” to slash funding for more energy-efficient homes to pay for a reduction in energy bills. Continue reading...
Viktor Orbán had a friendly meeting with Donald Trump on Friday to press his case for a reprieve The United States has granted Hungary a one-year exemption from US sanctions for using Russian oil and gas, a White House official said on Friday, after Viktor Orbán pressed his case for a reprieve during a friendly meeting with Donald Trump in Washington. Last month, Trump imposed Ukraine-related sanctions on Russian oil companies Lukoil and Rosneft that carried the threat of further sanctions on entities in countries that buy oil from those firms. Continue reading...
The United States has granted Hungary a one-year exemption from its sanctions on Russian oil and gas following a personal appeal from Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to President Donald Trump. Trump cited Hungary's landlocked status and lack of ports as reasons for the exemption, while Orbán warned of severe economic consequences.
WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump said he would consider giving Hungary a carve-out from sanctions on Russian oil, as Prime Minister Viktor Orban sought to cozy up to his right-wing ally at the White House on Friday.
Researchers have discovered that water, under extreme pressure, can freeze and melt through multiple unexpected pathways, forming new, short-lived ice phases like ice XXI. This reveals that water molecules can organize in more ways than previously thought, even at room temperature, with implications for understanding icy planets and materials science.
Here's how to aid those affected by the devastating storm in the Caribbean nation
The heaps of twisted building material and water damaged equipment is being cleared as Jamaicans recover from Hurricane Melissa.
Hungary has remained a defiant outlier as much of Europe has stopped purchasing Russian oil since its 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
STATEMENT: Brazil Announces Pledge to Quadruple ‘Sustainable Fuels’ nate.shelter@wri.org Fri, 11/07/2025 - 15:20 Belém, Brazil (November 7, 2025) — At the COP30 Leaders’ Summit, Brazil announced the Belém 4X Pledge on Sustainable Fuels, a commitment to quadruple production and use of ‘sustainable fuels’ by 2035, along with Japan, Italy, India and others. The fuels mentioned in the pledge include hydrogen, biogases, biofuels, and e-fuels. The pledge cites a new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) that envisions a quadrupling of these fuels by 2035, including a doubling of biofuel production. Following is a statement from Janet Ranganathan, Managing Director of Strategy, Learning and Results, World Resources Institute: “While countries are right to...
US President Donald Trump handed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban an exemption from sanctions to keep buying Russian oil on Friday, as the right-wing allies held a chummy White House meeting. As Orban and Trump heaped praise on each other, the Hungarian nationalist said it would take a “miracle” for Ukraine to beat Moscow, underscoring the gulf between him and other European leaders on the war. Trump, meanwhile, wholeheartedly backed Orban on the touchstone issue of migration, saying that...
Bloomberg said it was a “pivot” from months of messaging by Orbán and MOL that Hungary’s refineries were fully dependent on Russian crude.
Exclusive: Environment secretary says global tipping points are possible as he rejects far-right climate ‘defeatism’ Tackling the climate emergency is one of the key issues that could turn the tide against hard-right populists across the world, the UK’s energy secretary has said. Speaking on the eve of the UN’s climate summit, Ed Miliband said it was the cause progressives could rally around, because most people recognise populist parties have got it wrong. Continue reading...
Colleagues of an oil worker who died after suffering a medical incident while driving are receiving support as they deal with the tragedy.
Video: 00:03:39 The Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite has joined the Sentinel-1 mission in orbit. Launch took place on 4 November 2025 at 22:02 CET (18:02 local time) on board an Ariane 6 launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.The Sentinel-1 mission delivers high-resolution radar images of Earth’s surface, performing in all weathers, day-and-night. This service is used by disaster response teams, environmental agencies, maritime authorities and climate scientists, who depend on frequent updates of critical data.Sentinel-1D will work in tandem with Sentinel-1C, flying in the same orbit but 180° apart, to optimise global coverage and data delivery. Both satellites have a C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) instrument on board, which captures high-resolution imagery of Earth’s...
Trump hammered Hochul this week on his Truth Social platform for stalled pipeline projects he claimed would help "OUT OF CONTROL" energy prices.
Advancing Local Climate Action for Ambitious NDCs 3.0 margaret.overh… Fri, 11/07/2025 - 11:14 Nations around the world are ushering in a new decade of climate action through revised nationally determined contributions (NDCs), due this year. The urgency for climate action has never been greater, especially with 2024 marking the warmest year on record globally. While the urban content of NDCs is improving, it remains insufficient and doesn't reflect the increasingly urban world we live in. UN-Habitat analysis showed that only 27% of the last round of pledges under the Paris Agreement included strong urban content. Through the Coalition for High Ambition Multilevel Partnerships (CHAMP) for Climate Action , launched at COP28, WRI has worked to advance the subnational...
[Daily Maverick] The greedy people who destroyed the environment and spent billions on climate misinformation will fix it for us again, as long as we shake and dilute them a bit with public funds.
The new predatory sponge was found 11,800 feet deep east of Montagu Island off the coast of Antarctica.
[Daily Maverick] Eskom's proposed transmission line in Limpopo illustrates the cruel paradox of South Africa's energy dilemma: a coal-dependent grid already fuelling climate change is now being expanded in ways that further destroy biodiversity.
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration issued state permits for a pipeline to bring more gas into New York City despite environmental concerns about the project.
This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last Tuesday, as the strongest Atlantic storm in 90 years slammed the western coast of Jamaica with 185-mph winds, Bill Gates was downplaying climate change. In a lengthy blog post published on his personal website, Gates purported to offer some […]
Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action More than 5,000 fossil fuel lobbyists were given access to the UN climate summits over the past four years, a period marked by a rise in catastrophic extreme weather, inadequate climate action and record oil and gas expansion, new research reveals. Lobbyists representing the interests of the oil, gas and coal industries – which are mostly responsible for climate breakdown – have been allowed to participate in the annual climate negotiations where states are meant to come in good faith and commit to ambitious policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Continue reading...
As the United Nations COP30 climate change conference convenes in Belém, Brazil, the world's attention will turn to the heart of the Amazon rainforest – a region that symbolises both hope and concern in the fight against climate change.Once considered one of Earth's most vital carbon sinks, the Amazon is now showing troubling signs – satellite observations reveal that parts of this vast ecosystem are no longer absorbing carbon dioxide as they once did. In some areas, the forest has even become a net source of carbon emissions.
Statewide GHG emissions fell 21 percent between 2000 and 2023, state data shows.
[Namibian] Fishing activity taking place on the coastline near the proposed TotalEnergies oil production site at Lüderitz will barely be affected by oil activities.
Scientists explored how repeated breath-holding impacts the body. A study found that practicing breath-holding techniques significantly increases endurance. This improvement stems from the body becoming more efficient at balancing oxygen and carbon dioxide. The repetition itself, rather than specific techniques, conditions the body. This physiological adaptation allows for longer holds and quicker recovery.
When humans manage to cut enough emissions and eventually reduce global temperatures, new research shows the Southern Ocean could kick warming back into gear.
[263Chat] Tafara 5 Council Primary School in Mabvuku became the latest hub for the Green the Ghetto urban greening movement after hosting a lively tree-planting event and the official launch of the Mabvuku Chapter yesterday.
US President Donald Trump indicated positive trade talks with India and a potential visit next year, praising Prime Minister Modi. While negotiations for a Bilateral Trade Agreement continue, addressing significant tariffs on Indian goods and Russian oil imports remains a key focus for both nations aiming to boost trade.
Typhoon Uwan rapidly strengthens as it approaches the Philippines, prompting warnings of destructive winds, heavy rainfall, and possible life-threatening conditions.
The market lets countries fund climate projects and could trigger billions of dollars in investments for cutting emissions.
President Prabowo Subianto welcomed his counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil to Jakarta recently to strengthen ties between the fast-growing economies. The timing is significant. The meeting was just weeks before Brazil hosts the COP30 climate change talks in Belém, a bustling port city at the mouth of the Amazon River. Like Brazil, […]
“Has the world given up fighting climate change?” was a rhetorical question posed recently by the New York Times, perhaps with a degree of sarcasm. It might look that way, says Christiana Figueres, a founding partner of the nongovernmental organization Global Optimism, “as US president Donald Trump blusters about fossil fuel, Bill Gates prioritizes children’s […]
[Leadership] Nigeria's Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, has charged world leaders to move beyond pledging to performance, and from dialogue to taking reasonable action in tackling climate change and its attendant natural disasters that have claimed innocent lives and rendered many homeless across the globe.
A North Sea oil and gas heavyweight is eyeing acquisitions in the area as the chancellor Rachel Reeves faces pressure to cut the windfall tax in the Budget.
OAK HILL, W.Va. (AP) — Deep in the hills of West Virginia, coal mining and the dangers that come with it have been a part of families' lives for generations. Death and tragedy are woven into history, but there's also a fierce legacy of miners fighting for — and winning — protections that have benefitted workers nationwide.
James Marape skipped the meeting last year in protest but will attend Cop30 due to ‘encouraging signs’ on climate finance Papua New Guinea’s prime minister, James Marape, has criticised Cop climate summits as “long on talk and short on action” but will attend the upcoming meeting of world leaders in Brazil, after pulling out last year in frustration with big emitters. The leader of the Pacific nation of about 10 million people skipped the meeting in 2024 in “protest at the big nations” for failing to support to the victims of climate change. Marape will take part in the annual UN climate summit, which officially beings in Belém, Brazil on 10 November, due to “encouraging signs” emerging from developed nations on climate finance. Continue reading...
STATEMENT: Brazil Rallies Global Action on Wildfire Resilience at COP30 nate.shelter@wri.org Thu, 11/06/2025 - 17:43 Belém, Brazil (November 6, 2025) — Today at the COP30 Leaders’ Summit, Brazil and a group of countries committed to a voluntary Call to Action on Integrated Fire Management and Wildfire Resilience . It includes a framework to boost wildfire resilience through science, policy and traditional and Indigenous knowledge. This Call to Action comes as fires drove record-breaking forest loss last year, according to Global Forest Watch analysis . Following is a statement by Rod Taylor, Global Director for the Forest Program, World Resources Institute: “We’re entering an alarming new era as fires became the leading cause of tropical primary forest loss...
With this year’s global climate summit opening in Brazil, we offer a glimpse of how the Trump administration sometimes operates behind closed doors.
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5 Ways COP30 Can Make Progress Where Countries’ Climate Plans Fall Short alicia.cypress… Thu, 11/06/2025 - 14:15 Amid record heat and worsening climate impacts on people’s lives, 2025 is a turning point for global climate action, as countries renew their climate commitments — known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) — under the international Paris Agreement. This process reveals whether global ambition to tackle climate change is rising fast enough to meet the crisis head on. Over the past decade, the Paris Agreement has delivered meaningful progress. Prior to the agreement, the world was hurtling toward 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming by the end of the century. Ten years after the agreement’s adoption, the latest NDCs and current...
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva kicked off the Cop30 climate summit on Thursday, urging leaders to turn promises into action while highlighting his country’s work within the Brics group to reaffirm the importance of climate finance, capacity building and technology transfer in global cooperation. The meeting comes amid the notable absence by the United States. President Donald Trump, who ordered the country’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement in January, declined an invitation...
In a speech to the global gathering in Belem, Brazil , the Prime Minister vowed the UK under his Government would be 'doubling down' on its climate commitments.
More than 7000 residents were evacuated from Vietnam's Gia Lai province.
The issue of how motoring taxes should change as we decarbonise the economy has been dodged for too long. Car salesmen need to get real If you want a document to give you sleepless nights, the Office for Budget Responsibility’s biennial Fiscal Risks and Sustainability report is a go-to publication. This is the one that looks to the horizon and covers everything from demographic trends to state pension promises to the climate crisis. The headline finding in this July’s version was a true jaw-dropper. The UK’s public finances are on an unsustainable long-term trajectory because government debt would rise to a remarkable 270% of GDP by the early 2070s – up from almost 100% today – if current policies were left unchanged. Continue reading...
MIT’s Living Climate Futures Lab takes a human-centered approach to investigating a global challenge.
Climate change is the result of the same dynamics that, over centuries, have broken our societies and split our societies between rich and poor and split the world between developed countries and developing countries— President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Open access notables Tropical cyclones expand faster at warmer relative sea surface temperature , Wang et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Tropical cyclone (TC) size strongly affects its hazards and impacts. This study shows that observed TC size expands substantially faster over relatively warmer water across the major Northern Hemisphere ocean basins. Expansion rates increase much more slowly with global-mean warming as found in simple model simulation experiments. Hence, ocean regions that warm more quickly are more likely to support storms that expand more rapidly, potentially increasing their potential to cause damage and make forecasting the area of their impacts more difficult. Increasing extreme winds challenge offshore...
Earth may be on the verge of crossing several climate change tipping points that could have irreversible and devastating consequences. Here's everything you need to know about these "points of no return."
UN secretary general António Guterres urges opening session in Brazil to bring about a ‘fundamental paradigm shift’ The failure to limit global heating to 1.5C is a “moral failure and deadly negligence”, the UN secretary general has said at the opening session of the Cop30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém. António Guterres said even a temporary overshoot could “unleash far greater destruction and costs for every nation. It could push ecosystems past catastrophic and irreversible tipping points, expose billions to unliveable conditions, and amplify threats to peace and security”. Continue reading...
With only two months of the year left, 2025 is on track to be the second or third hottest year ever recorded.
New data show resilience among the rainforest’s giants, though scientists warn that nutrient limits and rising heat could end the trend.
The approval is the latest sign of the agency blazing forward with Trump administration priorities during the government shutdown.
Tech billionaire relying on ‘false binary’ with call to focus less on emissions and more on aid for poor, experts say A new memo on the climate crisis from Bill Gates relies on “straw man” arguments about the threat to humanity and “false dichotomies” between spending on climate or aid for the poor, some climate scientists say. Published last week, the tech billionaire’s 17-page missive called for a “strategic pivot” away from focusing on slashing emissions and towards preventing poverty and suffering. It was quickly picked up by some on the right, including Donald Trump, who hailed it as a much-needed backpedaling on climate efforts. Continue reading...
Report says proven technology could benefit thousands in poor quality housing and help UK meet carbon reduction targets Flooded disused coalmines could be a significant source of energy and provide cheap heat to thousands of homes, a new report argues. Mine water geothermal heat (MWGH) systems use the water in flooded coalmines, which is warmed by natural processes, to supply low-carbon heat. Heat exchangers and pumps recover the heat, which is distributed via district heating networks to homes and buildings, providing low-cost, long-term, stable energy. Continue reading...
[Daily Trust] The Health Services and Environment Secretariat (HSES) of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) is engaging young people to lead efforts in protecting the environment for future generations by curbing air pollution and promoting sustainability.
Bruce Douglas, CEO of the Global Renewables Alliance, argues that there is a real appetite in countries around the world to decarbonize at pace, but most developing country NDCs are conditional on financing. This is the crucial challenge to address.
[allAfrica] Africa stands at a pivotal juncture, urged to decarbonise for the planet's sake even as it struggles to power its own growth. With 600 million people still lacking access to electricity, and coal providing cheap, reliable energy, the continent faces a significant paradox: the green transition is critical to global climate goals, but for Africa, it could come at a substantial cost.
Diplomats and leaders from around the world are gathering on the edge of the Amazon rainforest for annual talks on how to limit global warming.
In ancient China, a special method of divine judgment known as the “oil-scooping ritual” served to make final rulings in cases of theft or debt disputes. The unusual legal tool was used when evidence was insufficient or inconclusive. At the time, forensic science was underdeveloped and people lacked the knowledge to uncover the truth, often appealing to the gods to distinguish right from wrong. One such practice was the “Boiling Scoop Judgement”, known in Chinese as Lao You Guo. This was...
“The entire Paris Agreement experiment is being challenged.”
BELéM (BRAZIL) - World leaders meet Thursday in the Brazilian Amazon in an effort to show that climate change remains a top global priority despite broken promises and the United States shunning the gathering.
Climate change–related natural disasters such as floods, fires, and storms devastate communities, and their massive costs continue to grow. But as climate risks increase, financial risk management infrastructure is not keeping pace. Analytical tools on ...
Discover the vital coral reefs importance for ocean biodiversity, coastal protection, and marine conservation efforts to save these critical underwater ecosystems facing global threats.
[SAnews.gov.za] Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Dr Dion George, has called on the Group of Twenty (G20) to implement the recently adopted declaration that advocates for the fight against environmental crime.
As world leaders prepare to gather in Brazil for COP30 next week, they will convene in the heart of the Amazon — a fitting location for what must become a turning point in how the world addresses the intertwined crises of climate change and biodiversity loss. Around the world, Indigenous Peoples and local communities’ leadership […]
Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum are taking their energy dominance message to a summit in Greece.
Abu Dhabi National Oil is tapping new sources of natural gas in its deserts and coastal waters to meet local demand and supply an export terminal that’s under construction.
Pulling out of the Paris climate agreement was not enough, an ex-aide to the U.S. president says on the eve of a summit in Brazil: "You have to potentially destroy it."
A cross section of manufacturers and environmentalists raised objections to the agency's plan to repeal its greenhouse gas reporting rule.
After it was found most offsets did not represent real carbon reductions, the money dried up. But successful schemes such as Kasigau in Kenya now face a stark future Solomon Morris Makau checks the fallen tree for snakes before he wraps a tape measure around the trunk. The early morning sun is overwhelming in the dryland forests of the Kasigau corridor, which separates the east and west Tsavo national parks in southern Kenya. Two guards keep watch for elephants and lions. There is little sign of green among the sprawling acacias, which stand silently in their punishing wait for the end of the dry season. Despite the threat from puff adders, Makau and his team have a job to do: measure the trees and shrubs in this 50 sq metre area to calculate their growth and change in carbon stock. “This...
Fallout from lethal police raids in Rio de Janeiro and mounting regional fears about US military intervention in Venezuela are threatening to overshadow the major United Nations climate summit set to begin in Brazil. The Cop30 gathering in the northern city of Belem was supposed to provide President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva a chance to showcase the environmental challenges facing the Amazon rainforest while spurring an aggressive response to climate change. Instead, the pair of crises sparked...
[This Day] As part of moves aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving energy security, Dangote Cement Plc has expressed its commitment to ensuring that all its trucks are 100 per cent Compressed Natural Gas (CNG)-powered by 2026.
An analysis of the storm found “all aspects of this event were amplified by climate change, and that we'll see more of the same.”
[UN News] Decades of progress in protecting the planet's carbon dioxide-busting forests are at risk as the climate crisis continues to accelerate, UN forestry experts said on Wednesday.
The deaths were mostly from drowning in flash floods, with 127 people still missing, many in the hard-hit central province of Cebu Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos Jr has declared a state of emergency after typhoon Kalmaegi left at least 114 people dead and nearly 130 missing in central provinces in the deadliest natural disaster to hit the country this year. The deaths were mostly from drowning in flash floods, and 127 people were still missing, many in the hard-hit central province of Cebu. The tropical cyclone blew out of the archipelago on Wednesday into the South China Sea. Continue reading...
A new study has found certain corals are more resilient in warmer waters, giving hope to the world-famous reef.
President names Steve Pearce to lead agency that manages a quarter-billion acres, about 10% of land in US Donald Trump nominated a former lawmaker from New Mexico on Wednesday to oversee the management of vast public lands that are playing a central role in Republican attempts to ramp up fossil fuel production. The nominee for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), former representative Steve Pearce of New Mexico, must be confirmed by the Senate. The agency manages a quarter-billion acres – about 10% of land in the US. It’s also responsible for 700m acres of underground minerals, including major reserves of oil, natural gas and coal. Continue reading...
Report calls for scaling-up of renewable energy and electrification of key sectors to limit peak of global heating There is still a chance for the world to avoid the worst ravages of climate breakdown and return to the goal of 1.5C if governments take concerted action on greenhouse gas emissions, a new assessment argues. The Climate Analytics report says governments’ goals are inadequate and need to be rapidly revised, and calls for the rapid scaling-up of the use of renewable energy and electrification of key sectors including transport, heating and industry. Continue reading...
London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan and West Yorkshire counterpart Tracy Brabin were also flying to Rio de Janeiro for local leader summits. Officials would not say how many civil servants were attending.
Bill C-48 bans ships that hold more than12,500 metric tons of oil from waters off the north of B.C.’s coast — from the northernmost point of Vancouver Island to the Alaskan border.
In the first election of Donald Trump's second term, voters make clear that they're unhappy with his energy policies — and they still care about climate action.
PM defies critics calling for a slowdown as he flies to Brazil, where he may have frosty reception after opting out of tropical forest fund UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests The UK will lead on tackling the climate crisis, the prime minister vowed on Wednesday, despite critics calling for a slowdown, because shifting to a low-carbon economy will cut bills, boost economic growth and bring national renewal. But his words risked being overshadowed by a bitter row over funding for tropical forest preservation at the UN Cop30 climate conference. Continue reading...
Report by consultants Deloitte undermines Labor’s public claims that WA’s gas exports help reduce emissions overseas Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Exports of Australian gas carry “substantial risks” of slowing the move to cleaner energy in Asian countries, according to a confidential report for the Western Australian government that undermines the government’s own narrative that the industry helps cut global emissions. The warning in the 2024 report by consultants Deloitte challenges the claim made by the Western Australian premier, Roger Cook, in 2023 that his state’s increased greenhouse pollution, largely driven by the vast amount of gas burnt to liquefy gas for export, is justified because...
Bill Gates, in a talk at Caltech on Monday night, defended his stance on shifting funds away from climate change mitigation and toward global human health efforts.
New York Times: They include seizing control of the country’s oil fields.
The former New Mexico congressman most recently served as chair of the New Mexico Republican Party.
Delhi-NCR faces severe air pollution. Air purifiers reveal alarming filter conditions, indicating dangerous air quality. Netizens share stark differences between official AQI data and their devices. Even iconic landmarks like India Gate are obscured by smog. Regions like Noida and Gurgaon also experience high pollution. Authorities implement measures, but experts warn of chronic issues.
The UNEP's 2025 Emissions Gap report has found that global average temperatures will exceed 1.5 C (2.7 F) before 2035 — and this just days before the COP30 climate summit kicks off in Brazil.
Energy and Commerce leaders requested new information about the Biden-era Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.
Scientists have been faced with a huge dilemma, as a new study reveals that reducing air pollution has increased global warming.
[The Conversation Africa] Children and young adults are very much involved in campaigning against the climate change that older generations have caused. The global youth climate justice movement uses protests, strikes and court cases to block fossil fuel expansion. But do they have any say in what their governments do to address climate change, or a voice at the annual COP climate change conferences, where the world's leaders make important climate decisions? Research by Florencia Paz Landeira, Alicia O'Sullivan, Aoife Daly and
The company has suffered a series of setbacks in trying to get permission to transport its offshore oil to shore.
Showing intellectual responsibility, Bill Gates admirably adjusts his stance on climate change.
Local councils are giving the green light to large-scale pig and poultry farms with patchy or non-existent climate data Plans for intensive livestock “megafarms” are omitting crucial climate impacts, it can be revealed. Campaigners last year celebrated a “beginning of the end” to polluting factory farming, after the landmark Finch supreme court ruling on a Surrey oil well confirmed that applications for major developments should consider all significant direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions. Continue reading...
[Vanguard] As Nigeria grapples with food insecurity, declining soil fertility, and the mounting impact of climate change, a new wave of sustainable agriculture practices is emerging through public-private collaboration. One example is MAGGI's Regenerative Agriculture (RegenAg) initiative, which is supporting thousands of local soybean farmers to adopt climate-smart practices and improve productivity.
The state legislature passed a bill that will add a surcharge for customers in the short term, but should pay it back more than 10-fold over the next 20 years.
Heavy rain and floods are possible in the Northeast, the East, the Central Plains and the North from Friday to Sunday due to the influence of incoming Typhoon Kalmaegi, warns the Meteorological Department.
European environment ministers have reached an agreement on a contentious plan to cut the bloc's greenhouse gas emissions but with caveats.
Exclusive: Jason Falinski says cutting net zero would tell young Australians ‘we have given up’ and could have negative impact at next election Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Liberal party ran as “Nationals-lite” last election and would be “rewarding standover tactics” from its junior Coalition partner if it caves to dropping a net zero emissions commitment, says former party president and MP Jason Falinski, as moderate and conservative forces continue warring over climate policy. The Liberals are poised to ditch their net zero pledge after conservative powerbrokers urged Sussan Ley to follow the Nationals in dumping the target. With a special meeting to be convened in the coming fortnight to resolve a position, moderate Liberals are fighting...
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- A new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) assessment warns that the world is still far from meeting the Paris Agreement goals, with global warming projections showing only marginal improvement despite new national pledges -- leaving the planet on course for a dangerous escalation in climate risks.
The former vice president, who died Monday, shaped U.S. energy policy from Washington and the boardroom.
Lawyers call for clarity over law as six are found guilty while being stopped from using defence used by fellow activists Six environmental protesters were convicted after they were denied the ability to put a “reasonable excuse” defence or climate facts before the jury, despite these being afforded to other activists acquitted for taking part in the same demonstration. After an eight-day trial at Southwark crown court in London, the six Just Stop Oil (JSO) activists were found guilty of public nuisance , which carries a maximum 10-year sentence, for climbing gantries on the M25 in 2022 to demand an end to new fossil fuel projects. They will be sentenced next month. Continue reading...
One of the state's power providers said Tuesday that it expected Energy Secretary Chris Wright to try and prevent the retirement of one of its coal units.
A Royal Society report outlines the state of the science but makes no concrete policy recommendations.
U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement would erase another 0.1 C of progress.
Three decades after the first Climate COP, the multilateral climate process – which was intended to serve as an instrument of justice and a guardian of the planet’s atmosphere – has fallen far short of its goals. Over the past 30 years, climate change has arrived and intensified, while the COP process has become a […]
Typhoon Kalmaegi has left at least 66 people dead with 26 others missing in the central Philippines, many in widespread flooding that trapped people on their roofs and swept away cars in a hard-hit province still recovering from a deadly earthquake, officials said Wednesday.
[Oxfam] In response to the UNEP Emissions Gap Report published today, Nafkote Dabi, Climate Policy Lead at Oxfam, said:
A massive rooftop solar power initiative is being developed at two industrial estates in Vietnam through a new collaboration between two Thai firms in a bid to support the host nation's net-zero campaign.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — When summer heat comes to the Arara neighborhood in northern Rio, it lingers, baking the red brick and concrete that make up many of the buildings long after the sun has gone down. Luis Cassiano, who's lived here more than 30 years, says he's getting worried as heat waves become more frequent and fierce.
[Leadership] Vice President Kashim Shettima has arrived in Belem, Brazil, to represent President Bola Tinubu at the 30th session of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 30), which is hosted in the capital city of Pará state, located in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon.
China’s energy industry has passed a new milestone, with the expansion of the Yangtze River Delta’s Beilun Power Station making it the largest thermal power station in the country by installed capacity. The plant’s one gigawatt coal-fired Unit Nine has commenced operation after a 168-hour full-load trial, state-owned China Energy Investment Corporation announced on Monday. That raised the total installed capacity of the power station, in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, to 7.34GW – surpassing the...
Even if you accept the science and want to insure against climate risks, the pathway to cutting emissions appears to be both messy and costly.
Video: 00:01:48 The Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite has joined the Sentinel-1 mission in orbit. Launch took place on 4 November 2025 at 22:02 CET (18:02 local time) on board an Ariane 6 launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.The Sentinel-1 mission delivers high-resolution radar images of Earth’s surface, performing in all weathers, day-and-night. This service is used by disaster response teams, environmental agencies, maritime authorities and climate scientists, who depend on frequent updates of critical data.Sentinel-1D will work in tandem with Sentinel-1C, flying in the same orbit but 180° apart, to optimise global coverage and data delivery. Both satellites have a C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) instrument on board, which captures high-resolution imagery of Earth’s...
The budget also doesn't mention possible incentive measures to encourage Canadians to lower their own emissions, such as reviving a subsidy for electric vehicle purchases.
Blocking the sun may reduce global heating – but ‘rogue actor’ could cause drought or more hurricanes, report finds Solar geoengineering could increase the ferocity of North Atlantic hurricanes, cause the Amazon rainforest to die back and cause drought in parts of Africa if deployed above only some parts of the planet by rogue actors, a report has warned. However, if technology to block the sun was used globally and in a coordinated way for a long period – decades or even centuries – there is strong evidence that it would lower the global temperature, the review from the UK’s Royal Society concluded. Continue reading...
On day two of his Brazil visit, the Prince of Wales also visited Paqueta and planted saplings.
Hong Kong customs have pledged to ramp up the detection of illicit fund flows in large-scale wildlife smuggling cases after winning a UN award for the city’s first money laundering conviction involving this type of trafficking. The Customs and Excise Department last month was recognised with an “impact” award from the United Nations Environment Programme for its role in the jailing of a 37-year-old man in September for 40 months over a live coral smuggling case involving about HK$6.7 million...
Global greenhouse gas emissions surged 2.3% in 2024, reaching a record 57.7 gigatons, with India and China leading the absolute increase. Projections indicate a 2.3-2.5°C rise in global temperatures by century's end, significantly missing Paris Agreement goals. Despite some progress, current climate actions are insufficient to avert severe climate risks.
Video: 00:03:11 The Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite has joined the Sentinel-1 mission in orbit. Launch took place on 4 November 2025 at 22:03 CET (18:03 local time) on board an Ariane 6 launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.The Sentinel-1 mission delivers high-resolution radar images of Earth’s surface, performing in all weathers, day-and-night. This service is used by disaster response teams, environmental agencies, maritime authorities and climate scientists, who depend on frequent updates of critical data.Sentinel-1D will work in tandem with Sentinel-1C, flying in the same orbit but 180° apart, to optimise global coverage and data delivery. Both satellites have a C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) instrument on board, which captures high-resolution imagery of Earth’s...
Learn how early hominins crafted the same sharp-edged Oldowan tools through 300,000 years of climate change, revealing one of the longest-lasting technologies in human history.
Reform's Richard Tice has branded the long-established policy of the state pension triple lock, which guarantees pensioners' incomes rise in real terms each year, 'unsustainable'.
A week after the storm walloped Jamaica, the Level 3 advisory encouraged tourists to 'consider rescheduling planned travel to Jamaica at this time.'
Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier retreated five miles in two months, 10 times faster than the previous record, with possible implications for the pace of sea-level rise.
Scotland's green energy industry has joined oil and gas firms to issue a plea for action to prevent mass job losses in the North Sea.
Researchers have found 6 million-year-old ice in the Allan Hills region of Antarctica and say the oldest-of-its-kind sample offers an unprecedented view into Earth's ancient climate.
Cebu province has confirmed 39 deaths as widespread flooding devastates towns.
NY Post readers discuss Bill Gates suggesting we should prioritize improving human life over reducing carbon emissions.
New York Times: Higher temperatures are thawing permafrost that acts as a mountain glue.
In this month's Moving to France newsletter we take a look at the property traps that foreigners often fall into, renting rules, how to make your second home into a main residence and planning a (legal) house-warming party.
The annual U.N. report card finds that, overall, countries are still far off-track from their stated goals to limit global warming.
A new UN report shows that global temperatures continue to rise despite a slight slowdown in emissions. It reiterates the call for countries to be more ambitious on climate action.
As vice president, he shaped President George W. Bush's climate and energy policies.
Countries have submitted their most recent round of promises and plans to fight climate change, and the UN has tallied them up in a new report. Here is its latest projection for how much the Earth is now expected to warm by the end of the century, and how Canada and the U.S. are contributing.
Available new climate pledges by governments have only slightly lowered global temperature rise over the course of this century, leaving the world on the path to a serious escalation of climate risks and damages.
We checked the Nationals’ claim that Australia is reducing emissions much faster than its peers.
Delhi grapples with its perennial pollution crisis, with various proposed solutions like cloud seeding, odd-even schemes, and smog towers facing scrutiny. Experts emphasize tackling major emission sources, including power, industry, transport, waste, and construction, advocating for cleaner fuels, vehicle electrification, and improved waste management.
Australian households will be able to access three hours a day of free solar power under an energy-saving programme that the government unveiled on Tuesday and will begin next year. “We want to see the benefits of renewable energy flow to all,” Energy Minister Chris Bowen told national broadcaster ABC. In a statement, he said that the Solar Sharer scheme will be rolled out from next year in some jurisdictions, including New South Wales and South Australia, before a possible expansion. “It’s not...
PARIS - This year's United Nations (UN) climate summit promises to be symbolic, marking a decade since the Paris Agreement and taking place in the environmentally vulnerable Amazon. But what is actually on the agenda?
How might Arctic sea-ice loss affect Britain’s weather? That is the question a team of researchers from the University of Exeter and the Met Office have been investigating.
Typhoon Kalmaegi has left at least 26 people dead in the Philippines, mostly in flooding set off by the storm, which barrelled across the central part of the country on Tuesday, disaster response officials said.
DOE didn't mention emissions when it announced the $1.5 billion loan for Wabash Valley Resources' ammonia fertilizer plant.
The Tallgrass pipeline has started moving emissions from 11 ethanol plants in Nebraska and one in Iowa to a site in southeast Wyoming.
Emissions policy brawl has become major threat to Sussan Ley’s leadership ahead of key meeting at end of November Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Liberal MPs have launched a rearguard action to salvage a commitment to net zero emissions, with one warning the party “will pay dearly in city electorates” and undermine Australia’s international reputation if the Coalition abandons the target . The South Australian senator Andrew McLachlan said the internal campaign to preserve a net zero emissions policy was “not over” despite a growing expectation that the Liberals will follow the Nationals in dumping the climate goal. Continue reading...
[The Conversation Africa] Environmental crime is big business, often listed among the world's top five criminal activities, just behind counterfeiting and drug crime. So it would be reasonable to think it is a big priority for global law enforcement.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 04 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02468-xHuman greenhouse gas emissions are raising temperatures and sea levels, collapsing ice sheets and acidifying oceans. Now, research maps out the range of emissions pathways that can limit these changes.
Britain’s Prince William played football with Brazil’s Cafu and volleyball on Copacabana Beach as he took in the charms of Rio de Janeiro before attending the Cop30 climate summit this week. The future king’s first visit to Brazil is centred around his annual Earthshot Prize which awards £1 million (US$1.3 million) to five pioneering projects tackling threats to the environment. Climate change and nature are issues the 43-year-old heir has long championed, and he is set to address global leaders...
The ranking states that optimal climates are characterized as 'relatively mild with few extremes in temperature, humidity, or precipitation.'
Yellowknife teacher and co-owner of Hay River’s Big Lake Cafe says her family home suffered structural damage when Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica last week.
The climate crisis is causing the permafrost to melt in Alaska, forcing the village of Nunapitchuk to relocate Children splash gleefully in the river as adults cast fishing lines or head into the Alaska tundra to hunt. It’s a scene that has characterized summer days for centuries among the Yup’ik people who have long lived in south-western Alaska, where the village of Nunapitchuk stands. But, with temperatures in Alaska warming nearly four times faster than most parts of the globe, that way of life is about to change. Homes in Nunapitchuk have been sinking into the permafrost , and residents have decided their only choice is to move the entire village to higher ground. Continue reading...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jeff Masters Visible satellite image (with lightning) of Hurricane Melissa at 4:55 p.m. EDT Sunday, Oct. 26, when it was a Category 4 storm with 145 mph (230 km/h) winds. (Image credit: NOAA/CIRA) Human-caused climate change increased Hurricane Melissa’s wind speeds by 7% (11 mph, or 18 km/h), leading to a 12% increase in its damages, found researchers at the Imperial College of London in a rapid attribution study just released. A separate study by scientists at Climate Central found that climate change increased Melissa’s winds by 10%, and the near-record-warm ocean waters that Melissa traversed — 1.2 degrees Celsius (1.2°F) warmer than average — were up to 900 times...
Hektoria glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula retreated 25 kilometres in just 15 months. Its rapid melt could have implications for other glaciers and the rate of sea level rise
Jamaica's peak tourism season is one month away, and officials in the hurricane-ravaged nation are rushing to rebuild from the catastrophic Category 5 storm that shredded the island's western region.
New report on funding to slash carbon emissions finds startlingly low engagement with the people affected Less than 3% of international aid to slash carbon emissions is supporting a “just transition” for workers and communities away from polluting industries, according to a new report. Released one week before the start of major United Nations climate negotiations in Belém, Brazil, the analysis from the climate and development non-profit ActionAid warns that the world’s response to the climate crisis risks deepening inequality rather than addressing it. Continue reading...
The Nationals argue the 2050 emissions target is already causing financial pain and the rest of the world is walking away from it. Neither of these things is true Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here After months of threatening, the junior Coalition partner has finally withdrawn its support for the national target of reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. “We are pegging ourselves to what the rest of the world does,” the Nationals leader, David Littleproud, claimed on Monday. Continue reading...
The Jamaican government has begun to reach the communities most devastated by Hurricane Melissa nearly a week after the historic storm made landfall and carved a path of immense destruction across the western part of the island nation.
State-owned giants Sinopec and PetroChina have already canceled some shipments of Russian oil, Bloomberg cited traders as saying.
Nonprofit ReefLine said they'll soon start the planting process and create a forest of soft corals over the art.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE05571G, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Woojae Shin, Haoxiang Lai, Gasim Ibrahim, Guiyan Zang A comprehensive techno-economic and environmental assessment database for global ammonia supply chains was developed across 63 countries, assessing diverse production technologies (gray, blue, yellow, pink, green) and downstream logistics by... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The Sentinel-1D satellite is ready to launch tomorrow (Tuesday 4 November) and, when it is fully commissioned, it will work with Sentinel-1C to capture high-resolution radar images over land, ice and sea. The mission has helped to reshape our view of planet Earth in numerous ways, by contributing data to public services and scientific studies on changes in our environment and climate. But did you know some of the following facts about Sentinel-1?
Labor announces ‘solar sharer’ program for households in NSW, south-east Queensland and South Australia Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Australian households in three states will be promised access to at least three hours a day of free solar power, regardless of whether they have rooftop panels, the federal government has announced. The “solar sharer” offer will be available to homes with smart meters – which is the majority of homes – in New South Wales, south-east Queensland and South Australia from July next year, with other areas to potentially follow in 2027. Continue reading...
Douglas Gunn Sharp, founder of Edinburgh 's Innis & Gunn brewery, will open his precious bottle of Allsopp's Arctic Ale - after splashing out £3,000 for it.
[Ghanaian Times] The Speaker of Parliament, Mr Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin, has urged legislators to show total commitment towards climate change actions, especially the reduction of methane gas emission, and be the voice of the most vulnerable groups in the constituencies they represent.
A new Washington Post investigation reveals where climate change has supercharged the movement of moisture through the skies.
As Typhoon Halong swept through western Alaska, it laid bare how centuries-old policies made Native villages particularly vulnerable to climate change.
Storm locally known as Kalmaegi expected to make landfall by Tuesday, while a supercell rocks Queensland Tropical Cyclone Tino formed to the east of the Philippines at the weekend, prompting a nationwide alert. Locally known as Kalmaegi, the storm is strengthening quickly and could reach typhoon status before making landfall early this week, which would make it the 20th tropical cyclone to hit the country this year. The weather system entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility on Sunday, with sustained winds of 52mph (84km/h) and 65mph gusts. The storm is tracking westward and is expected to intensify into a typhoon within the next 24 hours, before making landfall over Caraga or Eastern Visayas by Tuesday morning. Continue reading...
The grants are available for retrofits that allow coal plants to also run on natural gas.
Developers cited Trump’s executive orders aimed at speeding up fossil fuel projects in their request to revive the pipeline.
The Chinese company is a passive member of the group, but another solar company is demanding an explanation from SolarPower Europe.
The tech tycoon's new online encyclopedia recognizes the root cause of global warming — humanity's burning of fossil fuels — but provides a platform for contrarian views.
Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process Exxon funded rightwing thinktanks to spread climate change denial across Latin America, according to hundreds of previously unpublished documents that reveal a coordinated campaign to make the global south “less inclined” to support the UN-led climate treaty process The documents, which include copies of the actual cheques Exxon sent, consist of internal documents and years of correspondence between the Texas-based fossil fuel company and Atlas Network , a US-based coalition of more than 500 free-market thinktanks and other partners worldwide. Continue reading...
Opposition leader under pressure to call special party room meeting this week to resolve growing split over the policy Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The opposition leader, Sussan Ley, is facing growing pressure from conservative Liberal MPs to dump their commitment to net zero emissions by 2050, with a new hardline position from the Nationals inflaming tensions within the Coalition. Ley has been urged to call a special party room meeting this week to resolve the growing split, as forces aligned with leadership rival Angus Taylor argue the Liberals should match the Nationals’ position which was announced over the weekend . Continue reading...
Bill Gates should wear a “Trump was right about everything” hat to next month’s COP30 climate talks in Brazil as a sort of scarlet letter after his backflip on climate change.
London mayor says government should stay true to its beliefs and face down those who claim net zero adds to cost of living Keir Starmer’s government has shown a lack of confidence that it has the answers to the country’s problems, the mayor of London has said, as he called on the chancellor to back green investment in this month’s budget. Speaking on the eve of a summit of world mayors in Rio de Janeiro, Sadiq Khan said the Treasury should be more supportive of the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, in his pursuit of the government’s target of an 81% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2035. Continue reading...
The death toll from a landslide in western Kenya’s Rift Valley has risen to 26, a government spokesman said on Sunday, following heavy rains on Saturday. Twenty-five people were still missing and 26 others had been rescued after devastating floods in Elgeyo-Marakwet County, government spokesman Isaac Mwaura said in a statement. Most of the rescued people were receiving treatment. The government has deployed military planes and disaster response specialists to conduct a search and rescue...
Also’s first two-wheeler makes its case by cribbing techy flourishes from electric cars.
Rocky Mountain National Park's Kawuneeche Valley has seen an influx of moose and elk that has lead an alarming decline of beavers and their habitats.
India faces a severe air pollution crisis. On October 30, 2025, forty of the world's most polluted cities were in India. Smaller northern cities like Sri Ganganagar and Siwani recorded extreme pollution levels. Delhi, though not in the top ten, still experienced dangerous air quality. This indicates a widespread problem across northern India.
Southeast Asia is quietly emerging as a key arena in the global race for rare earth elements, the critical minerals powering everything from smartphones and electric vehicles to renewable energy systems and advanced weapons. As the world moves towards clean energy and digital transformation, control over these minerals has become central to geopolitical competition. While China still dominates global production and refining, countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam find themselves...
The UN Secretary-General expressed solidarity with Jamaicans on Sunday struggling to cope with the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Melissa.
A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, October 26, 2025 thru Sat, November 1, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Law and Justice (4 articles) Trump and Republicans Join Big Oil`s All-Out Push to Shut Down Climate Liability Efforts Republican attorneys general, GOP lawmakers, industry groups and the president himself are all maneuvering to foreclose the ability of cities and states to hold the fossil fuel industry liable for damages linked to climate change. Inside Climate News, Dana Drugmand, Oct 26, 2025. Survivors of Philippines `Super Typhoon` Sue Oil Giant for Causing Climate Emergency The lawsuit centers on Philippine laws stating that citizens have the right...
The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) sent out compliance notices to six businesses this week.
Scotland is expected to generate nearly three quarters of Britain’s onshore wind power with in five years — sparking fears the country is facing North Sea oil-style exploitation as a green energy supplier for England.
The BBC speaks to those who have lost everything in this year's monsoon season and finds out why it will likely happen again.
Alejandro Juarez, a longtime New York resident and former Trump golf club worker, was wrongfully deported to Mexico after ICE agents placed him on the wrong flight. The error, uncovered through internal emails, triggered national outrage and a federal review. His lawyer, Anibal Romero, says DHS has admitted the mistake and is working to return him.
Suzanne Rees was found dead on Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef, in Far North Queensland, on Sunday.
A violent scene unfolded on the streets of Evanston, Illinois Friday afternoon between ICE agents and protestors after officials said a man and woman 'tailgated' a federal vehicle.
In Chicago suburb, protesters confront ICE agents, whom Evanston mayor says ‘assaulted’ residents Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown continued on Halloween night as federal agents were seen in Chicago and Los Angeles on the holiday, according to multiple reports. In Chicago, where the president has unleashed military troops to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as agents carry out arrests and push back against protesters, several people were arrested on Friday. ICE agents descended on the city and its suburbs as part of their operations, and protesters were also detained during clashes with law enforcement. Continue reading...
Shocking data reveals air pollution claimed one in seven lives in Delhi during 2023. Ambient particulate matter was the primary culprit, responsible for approximately 15% of all fatalities, totaling around 17,200 deaths. This pollution also led to a staggering loss of nearly 4.9 lakh years of healthy life for the city's residents.
The dancehall star on coordinating food, water, and medicine dispersal in a town ravished Hurricane Melissa with the help of a buddy and his private planes
Ukraine’s military intelligence said its forces struck the Koltsevoy pipeline, which spans 250 miles and supplies the Russian army with gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.
[Capital FM] Nakuru -- Deadly floods and a mudslide have left nine people dead in two villages in the Marakwet East Sub-County of Elgeyo Marakwet.
The agency has faced blowback from business leaders and Republicans over plans to end the popular energy efficiency program.
Bureau of Meteorology says band of severe thunderstorms bearing down on Australia’s east coast Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Destructive winds, giant hail, flash floods and tornadoes could wreak havoc on southern Queensland and northern New South Wales, the Bureau of Meteorology has warned. A major band of severe thunderstorms was bearing down on Australia’s east coast on Saturday, senior BoM forecaster Angus Hines said. Continue reading...
For more than 30 years, major nuclear powers have refrained from testing nuclear bombs. But that streak may soon be over as Russia and the U.S. conduct missile tests and threaten to resume explosions of the most powerful weapons ever devised.
A British billionaire has been lashed by Aussie leaders and unions, following a decision to close a major coal mine, costing 250 jobs.
Extreme heat now kills one person every minute, according to a sweeping new report by the British medical journal The Lancet.
A video casts doubt on government claims that Carlitos Ricardo Parias, who was shot and wounded by an ICE agent last week, "previously escaped from custody." A judge ordered him released on bond Friday.
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The BBC’s Nada Tawfik reports from Black River, where the strongest storm to hit the country in modern history has left scenes of desperation.
Decision to stay away from Cop30 meeting in Brazil underscores administration’s hostility to climate action The Trump administration has confirmed that no high-level representatives will be sent by the US to upcoming UN climate talks in Brazil, underscoring the administration’s hostile stance towards action on the climate crisis. The US has always sent delegations of various sizes to UN climate summits over the past three decades, even during periods under George W Bush and Donald Trump’s first term where there was scant desire to address the global heating crisis. Continue reading...
Public-facing site cost about $86m as the Bureau of Meteorology apologises for the handling of the redesign launch Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The full cost of the Bureau of Meteorology’s website overhaul was approximately $86m, Guardian Australia can reveal, after years of delays and millions in cost blowouts. BoM apologised this week for the handling of the launch of the new website – its first redesign in a decade. It promised to make changes after the environment minister, Murray Watt, said the website was “not meeting many users’ expectations”, and the federal opposition said it had affected the ability of Queenslanders to prepare for recent rains. On Friday, the BoM reverted to the former colour scheme on the radar and weather map to match...
A sheet of fabric that is three times stronger than Kevlar could stop a bullet despite being just 1.8 millimetres thick, thanks to the addition of carbon nanotubes that keep its molecules aligned
Rajan Naidu, 74, student Niamh Lynch, 23, and Luke Watson, 36, were on trial accused of vandalising the world heritage site to protest against the use of fossil fuels.
Deaths from air pollution in Southeast Asia could rise by nearly 10 per cent and cost the region almost US$600 billion by 2050 unless more effective action is taken, a new study has warned. The research – published in the journal Environment International earlier this month – modelled the potential rise in premature deaths and associated economic losses across three different climate change scenarios, each defined by levels of greenhouse gas emissions. Findings revealed the region is expected to...
Trio argued orange powder protest day before 2024 solstice was justified because of focus on climate emergency Three Just Stop Oil protesters have been cleared over a protest at Stonehenge during which orange powder was sprayed on to the prehistoric circle. Rajan Naidu, 74, Niamh Lynch, 23, and Luke Watson, 36, targeted Stonehenge the day before last year’s summer solstice. Continue reading...
Existing tools that work out the carbon footprint of flights greatly underestimate their warming impact, say the makers of a new calculator
There is no popular way to raise taxes, and with Labour tanking in the polls, my advice to the chancellor is this: do it anyway On Westminster Bridge on Tuesday demonstrators wearing masks of the big four banks’ CEOs gestured with jeroboams of champagne and sacks of cash. Positive Money, Tax Justice UK, the Fairness Foundation, Equality Trust and others are campaigning for a windfall tax on banks’ accelerating domestic profits. Inflation has yet again raised their takings to record heights for no extra effort, the same inflation that also raises the cost of living. When oil and gas prices soared in 2022, the Tory government set a 35% energy profits levy. Why not on banks, an equally unavoidable utility, they demand? Naturally British banks fight back. “Our sector underpins investment...
Scientists from Sorbonne University in Paris predict that up to 59 per cent of Antarctica's ice shelves could collapse by 2300. If this happens, it will result in up to 32ft of global sea-level rise.
Officials said the drop in deforestation reflects stronger environmental enforcement, expanded satellite monitoring and renewed coordination among federal agencies.
[Leadership] The Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission (NAEC) is to establish a Nuclear Research Centre at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi, to build the capacity of its staff in the area of Smart Agriculture, Medicine, Power, as well as Science and Technology.
Nations across the Caribbean were assessing the cost in lives and destruction from Hurricane Melissa, no more so than on Jamaica where at least 19 people died.
Los Angeles is set to double the size of a planned facility that will transform wastewater into purified drinking water, recycling enough water to meet the needs of 500,000 people.
Hurricane Melissa's confirmed death toll climbed to 49 on Thursday, according to official reports, after wreaking destruction across much of the northern Caribbean and picking up speed as it headed past Bermuda in the North Atlantic.
But it’s a rare instance of bipartisan lawmaking and the biggest wildfire legislation in recent history. The post Fix Our Forests Act divides environmental community appeared first on High Country News.
Category 5 storm is most powerful to strike Jamaica and has caused death and destruction in Cuba and Haiti Hurricane Melissa has wreaked havoc across parts of the Caribbean in recent days, after first making landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday night as a category 5 storm – the highest strength. This was the most powerful storm to strike the island nation, packing winds of up to 185mph at its peak. Western parts of Jamaica were worst hit, with 90% of homes in the town of Black River losing their roof or being destroyed entirely. Roughly three-quarters of the country lost electricity, with at least 19 people known to have lost their lives at the time of publication. The cleanup operation was hampered by thunderstorms even after Melissa cleared to the north. The hurricane continued northwards, but...
Bill Gates argues that global efforts should prioritise fighting hunger and disease over strict climate targets, claiming this approach will save more lives and improve human welfare.
At least one judge questioned whether federal regulators should be doing more to assess climate change risk to reactors.
Bermuda faces 160km/h winds as the storm continues its path northward.
The approval helps a company’s push to reroute the Line 5 oil pipeline around a reservation as critics seek to halt the plan.
The Environment and Public Works ranking member is trying to find who is pushing the administration against climate action.
Sydney, Brisbane and Darwin are predicted to hit hottest October in terms of maximum temperatures, the Bureau of Meteorology says Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here Queensland and the Northern Territory are on track for their warmest October on record against “every measure”, according to the Bureau of Meteorology. Across the country it had been a “pretty unusual month”, a senior climatologist at the BoM, Hugh McDowell, said. Continue reading...
Carbon dioxide emissions are expected to peak globally next year, marking a turning point in the energy transition, with Asia set to play a prominent role in decarbonisation. The findings were revealed in a report by Rystad Energy released on Thursday, which noted that while the shift to renewable energy had gained momentum, peak oil demand was set to occur only by the 2030s, with near-term demand for fossil fuels including gas likely to be resilient. Emerging countries such as Pakistan and...
Hurricane Melissa, now a Category 1 storm, was making its closet approach toward Bermuda early Friday after battering the Caribbean over the past few days, forecasters said.
At the Wall Street Journal Innovator Awards, pop star Billie Eilish urged billionaires to share their wealth, stating the world needs empathy and help. Her call to action followed her announcement of an $11.5 million donation from her tour earnings to organizations addressing food equity and climate justice.
Sydney researchers commercialising a product they say can cool indoor spaces and will cost little more than standard premium paints Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here Australian scientists have developed roof coatings that can passively cool surfaces up to 6C below ambient temperature, as well as extract water from the atmosphere, which they say could reduce indoor temperatures during extreme heat events. Heatwaves are becoming more intense, more frequent and more deadly due to human-caused global heating. Continue reading...
The lashing winds and storm surge devoured dozens of feet of shoreline, disrupting a culturally significant archaeological site and washing away possibly thousands of unearthed artifacts.
Communities across the northern Caribbean are dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa. The storm has left many without homes, power or communication.
The state is in the middle of a large region of the US that may be hiding geologic hydrogen - a gas that burns without producing carbon dioxide, like other fossil fuels.
Modernizing Ports Is a Major Untapped Opportunity for a Healthier Planet alicia.cypress… Thu, 10/30/2025 - 15:03 If global shipping were a country, it would rank among the world’s top six emitters of climate-harming greenhouse gases (GHGs). Eighty percent of international trade — fundamental to the global economy and the goods we use in our everyday lives — travels by sea from port to port, generating 3% of global GHG emissions. Reducing these emissions is critically urgent to protecting our climate, oceans, economy and human health. Countries have already focused significant attention on trying to decarbonize vessels and develop new fuels. Most recently, after 10 years of development and negotiations, the world was poised to pass a new framework from the International...
New Brunswick's government says it's cutting a carbon tax that will reduce prices at the pump by about eight cents a litre.
The images reveal how the Category 5 hurricane caused devastation in some of Jamaica's communities.
Kingston airport reopens to flights carrying aid, with some towns in Jamaica underwater and power lines down in south-west Hurricane Melissa – live updates Jamaica has ramped up efforts to clear roads and reach people in isolated and cut-off areas after Hurricane Melissa rampaged through the Caribbean, with the storm now heading towards Bermuda. Kingston, Jamaica’s capital, was spared the worst damage and the main international airport has reopened to allow flights carrying critical aid to land. Officials said some towns were underwater and power lines and mobile network towers were down in much of the south-west. Continue reading...
Researchers have gained new insights into rhinoceros evolution and the longevity of the North Atlantic Land Bridge from analyzing the perfectly preserved fossils of a "frosty" Arctic rhino.
Scientists have discovered the oldest directly dated ice and air on Earth in East Antarctica, dating back six million years. This ancient ice, found near the surface, offers unprecedented insights into Earth's past climate, revealing significantly warmer temperatures and higher sea levels. The findings provide crucial context for understanding modern global warming by showcasing natural climate fluctuations.
India and the US are continuing discussions to finalize a trade deal, with US President Trump hinting at an imminent agreement. The proposed deal reportedly includes reducing US tariffs on Indian exports and India decreasing Russian oil imports while increasing energy purchases from the US.
The US has granted India a six-month exemption from sanctions on the Chabahar port, a significant diplomatic achievement amidst ongoing trade deal negotiations. This development allows India to continue its investments and strategic access to Afghanistan and Central Asia. India is also analysing the implications of US sanctions on Russian oil companies, prioritising energy security for its population.
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