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Bangkok says work from home as pollution blankets...
Bangkok city employees have been told to work from home to avoid harmful air pollution, as a layer of noxious haze blanketed the T...
Groundwater upsurge floods homes in Libyan coastal...
Much of Libya is bone-dry desert but one Mediterranean coastal town is suffering the opposite problem -- its houses and fields hav...
World demand for liquefied natural gas jumps 50% b...
British energy group Shell on Wednesday forecast that world demand for liquefied natural gas would jump more than 50 percent by 20...
COP hosts UAE, Azerbaijan, Brazil announce climate...
Past and future UN climate talk hosts the United Arab Emirates, Azerbaijan and Brazil said Tuesday they are forming a "troika" to...
Chile on green hydrogen investment hunt in Europe
Chile is embarking on a European hunt for investors in solar, wind and green hydrogen technologies as it looks to decarbonise copp...
Migratory species at risk across the planet, UN re...
From African elephants searching for water, to turtles crossing seas to nest, and to albatrosses on their ocean-spanning search fo...
Gas booming for UN COP29 host Azerbaijan
Following the UN's COP28 climate talks in oil-fuelled Dubai, the COP29 conference is headed for the historic cradle of oil, Azerba...
Anti-Winter Olympics protest takes to streets of M...
Activists protesting against the 2026 Winter Olympics took to the streets of Milan on Saturday as part of a series of demonstratio...
Melting ice roads cut off Indigenous communities i...
Melting ice roads cut off Indigenous communities in Canada's far north as unseasonably warm weather on Friday also saw its largest...
World's biggest flying lab comes to Asia on air po...
NASA has kicked off a series of marathon flights in Asia with the world's biggest flying laboratory, in an ambitious mission to im...
Burning question: what can we expect in a 1.5C wor...
Massive wildfires exposing millions to toxic smoke, drought shrivelling crops and key waterways, destructive storms supercharged b...
UK's opposition Labour Party ditches £28 bn climat...
Britain's main opposition Labour Party on Thursday ditched a commitment to spend £28 billion a year on green infrastructure if it...
Never boared: Barmaid becomes France's first pig p...
A French bartender is riding high on the hog after setting herself up as a pig pedicurist.
Poland's 'Bat-mum' saving bats from climate change
A Polish pensioner has been dubbed "Bat-mum" for taking care of ailing bats from her ninth-floor flat as the nocturnal mammals inc...
World sees first 12 months above 1.5C warming leve...
Earth has endured 12 months of temperatures 1.5C hotter than the pre-industrial era for the first time on record, Europe's climate...
Mexico sees big fall in monarch butterfly numbers
Population numbers of endangered monarch butterflies have fallen sharply at their wintering sites in Mexico, experts said Wednesda...
UN chief says world in 'age of chaos'
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Wednesday that the world is entering "an age of chaos" with a deeply divided Security...
Biden strengthens US soot regulations, angering in...
President Joe Biden's administration on Wednesday announced tough new air quality standards it said were sorely needed to protect...
Spanish farmers block roads for second day
Thousands of farmers used tractors to block roads across Spain for the second straight day Wednesday amid Europe-wide protests aga...
Ghana struggling with tsunami of secondhand clothe...
It takes Nii Armah and his crew of 30 fishermen hours to haul their weighty nets to shore on the bustling Korle-Gonno beach of Gha...
In Chile, natural disasters fall on all-volunteer...
From earthquakes to tsunamis and massive fires, Chile is prone to natural disasters -- but the firefighters called up to tackle th...
EU strikes deal on clean tech to compete with Chin...
EU states and lawmakers clinched a deal on Tuesday to expand Europe's clean tech production, from solar and wind to carbon capture...
India's 'lake man' cleans up critical water suppli...
Ancient lake systems once provided Bengaluru with critical water supplies, but the Indian tech hub's breakneck expansion left many...
Chile mourns 123 killed in wildfire inferno, searc...
Chile began two days of national mourning Monday for at least 123 victims of a raging wildfire, with the search continuing for the...
Tractor army gathers at the gates of Rome
Dozens of Italian farmers with tractors started gathering Monday on the edge of Rome vowing a major demonstration to pressure the...
What to know about Chile's voracious wildfires
Coming in the middle of a fierce heatwave, Chile's forest fires engulfed communities with a destructive speed that has stunned the...
Shark bites and deaths up even as species faces cr...
Shark bites and fatalities ticked up worldwide last year, with Australia accounting for a disproportionate number of deaths result...
Swiss watchmaker says it's time to make luxury sus...
Vegetal leather and recycled stainless steel melted in a solar oven are among the materials a Geneva watch brand is using in its q...
Extreme heat drives Chile wildfires leaving at lea...
Chileans Sunday feared a rise in the death toll from wildfires blazing across the South American country that have already killed...
Parisians called to vote on SUV parking surcharge
Parisians will be asked to vote Sunday on whether to triple the cost of parking Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) in the French capit...
Chile wildfires kill at least 51 in 'unprecedented...
Wildfires blazing across Chile have killed at least 51 people, leaving bodies in the street and homes gutted, with flames continui...
Chile wildfires kill at least 46 in 'unprecedented...
Wildfires blazing across Chile have killed at least 46 people, officials said Saturday, leaving bodies in the street and homes gut...