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A number of foreign firms have announced tech partnerships un China as they try to get a hold in the world's biggest electric vehicle market (AFP)
AutomotiveElectric Vehicles (EVs)In-DepthNewsTransport

Global car giants seek tech allies in China’s cutthroat EV market

Struggling foreign automakers in China are looking for help from local tech giants to try to stay competitive in the world's biggest EV...

FILE - Solar panels work near the small town of Milagro, Navarra Province, northern Spain, Feb. 24, 2023. Billions of people are using different kinds of energy each day and 2023 was a record-breaking year for renewable energy sources, according to a report published Wednesday, May 8, 2024, by Ember, a think tank based in London. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos, File)
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More and faster: Electricity from clean sources reaches 30% of global total

2023 was a record-breaking year for renewable energy sources, according to a report published Wednesday, May 8

FILE - A man wades through an area flooded by heavy rains, in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, May 3, 2024. In a world growing increasingly accustomed to wild weather swings, the last few days and weeks have seemingly taken those environmental extremes to a new level. (AP Photo/Carlos Macedo, File)
AnalysisClimateIn-DepthWeather

From flooding in Brazil and Houston to brutal heat in Asia, extreme weather seems nearly everywhere

Some climate scientists say they are hard pressed to remember when so much of the world has had its weather on overdrive at...

Siblings Ella Pringle and Aidan Ridley play baseball at a park in a handout photo as part of their parents' "conscious" effort to get them out of the house and away from their screens for regular exercise as recommended in a ParticipAction report. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO
AnalysisClimateResiliencyWeather

Climate change added barrier to physical activity for Canadian youth: ParticipAction

The latest report card from Canada's ParticipAction says heat waves and smoke-filled air lead to cancellations of sports activities and recess, which can...

Corn plants affected by leafhoppers are pictured on a National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) experimental field, in Marcos Juarez, Cordoba, Argentina April 20, 2024. REUTERS/Matias Baglietto
AgricultureAnalysisBiodiversityClimateIn-DepthWeather

As climate shifts, a leafhopper bug plagues Argentina’s corn fields

Argentina corn farmers fear infestations by the leafhopper could become more regular, with fewer frosts in recent years to check the insect's spread,...

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For farmers, watching and waiting is a spring planting ritual. Climate change is adding to anxiety

Waiting on the weather is an old story in agriculture, but as climate change drives an increase in spring rains across the Midwest,...

EU changes could affect 2035 target to phase out sales of internal combustion engine cars, despite EV transition progress (LEHTIKUVA)
AutomotiveElectric Vehicles (EVs)In-DepthLegislationNewsPoliticsTransport

EU election could force sharp turn in electric car policy

EU changes could affect 2035 target to phase out sales of internal combustion engine cars, despite EV transition progress

The EU plans to outlaw the sale of new fossil fuel-powered cars from 2035, meaning some jobs will inevitably become redundant (AFP)
AutomotiveIn-DepthLabourNewsTransport

Europe’s auto suppliers reach the end of the road

Facing the double shock of the end of combustion engines and rising competition from China, European auto suppliers are announcing cuts

The EU's Green Deal is a key project of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (AFP)
AnalysisClimateElectionsEmissionsEnvironmentIn-DepthPoliticsRegulations

EU’s Green Deal target of disinfo ahead of June vote

The EU's Green Deal has been the target of virulent online disinformation ahead of European parliament elections in June

People scavenge recyclable materials for a living, at Dandora, the largest garbage dump in Nairobi, Kenya Monday, April 22, 2024. Students at a school next to Kenya's largest dumpsite are on a mission to try to purify the air with bamboo. They have planted more than 100 seedlings along the wall that separates the school from the trash dump that was declared full 23 years ago. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
ClimateEmissionsIn-Depth

Students turn to bamboo to ease effect of African trash dump

Fast-growing bamboo's CO2 capture potential could help Kenyan teenagers struggling to cope with the filthy air of dumpsite next to school.

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