Air breathed by people in the city categorised as ‘severe’ in quality after fireworks contribute to thick smog Delhi awoke to a thick haze on Tuesday, a day after millions of people celebrated the Hindu festival of Diwali with fireworks, marking the beginning of the pollution season that has become an annual blight on India’s … Read more
Typhoon Rai killed more than 400, displaced nearly 3.2 million, and destroyed more than a million homes in 2021 Trixy Elle still weeps when she remembers how she and her family fought for their lives as Typhoon Rai tore across the Philippines days before Christmas four years ago. In a matter of hours, intense rain … Read more
Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the most venerable of the leviathans now numbers 384, up eight from past year One of the rarest whales on the planet has continued an encouraging trend of population growth in the wake of new efforts to protect the giant animals, according to scientists who study them. The … Read more
Data analysis found higher than average migration growth to the US from areas in Guatemala, Bangladesh and Senegal hit by repeated climate disasters Mohamed* sat cross-legged on the carpet before Friday afternoon prayers at a mosque in the South Bronx in New York City and shared memories of his crops. He recalled growing maize, watermelon … Read more
Once again the United States is using its economic might to pressure other countries to back down from an effort to limit greenhouse gas pollution. The Trump administration is ramping up the pressure on the European Union to repeal or overhaul a regulation on corporations’ greenhouse gas pollution — in the latest example of the … Read more
The move would reignite a fight with coastal state governors — particularly California’s Gavin Newsom — who forced the president to back down in his first term. The Trump administration plans to propose opening federal waters in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to offshore drilling, two people familiar with the plan said Wednesday, a move … Read more
Government consults on allowing regulator to use lower civil standard of proof and introducing automatic penalties Water companies in England could face more, and automatic, fines for sewage dumping under new Environment Agency powers. The government is consulting on allowing the regulator to use a lower, civil, standard of proof instead of the higher criminal … Read more
BRUSSELS — The Trump administration’s campaign to kill the world’s first global carbon price for shipping upended internal EU climate discussions on Tuesday after Greece prevented the bloc from reendorsing the embattled levy. At a meeting of the International Maritime Organization last week, Athens dropped its support for the fee and other measures meant to … Read more
Conservationists argue president’s oil expansion plans clash with his image as a global leader on climate change Brazil’s Petrobras has been given permission to drill for oil near the mouth of the Amazon River, casting a shadow over the country’s green ambitions as it prepares to host UN climate talks. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, … Read more
Researchers say decline in phytoplankton suggests weakened planetary capacity to absorb carbon dioxide The world’s oceans are losing their greenness owing to global heating, according to a study that suggests our planet’s capacity to absorb carbon dioxide could be weakening. The change in the palette of the seas is caused by a decline of phytoplankton, … Read more