Tuesday, 25 February 2025

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FILE PHOTO: An employee holds a diesel fuel pump nozzle at a petrol station of Neftmagistral company in Moscow, Russia, September 8, 2023. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo
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Explainer: A trillion dollar question — fossil fuel subsidies

Governments around the globe are ploughing billions of dollars into fossil fuel subsidies.

Pumpjacks operate in a milo field, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024, near Hays, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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Shanghai, Tokyo, New York, Houston spew most greenhouse gas of world cities

One site in the Permian Basin, Texas, is by far the worst polluting site in the entire world.

FILE PHOTO: The Imperal Oil refinery is seen in an aerial photograph taken along the St. Clair River, one of many facilities in Canada's "Chemical Valley" in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada November 3, 2021. REUTERS/Nick Iwanyshyn/File Photo
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Imperial Oil fined for 2021 slop oil spill

Ontario has fined Imperial Oil C$900,000 for a slop oil leak into a tank containment area at its Sarnia site in 2021 that...

FILE - In this photo provided by the U.S. Army National Guard, North Dakota National Guard soldiers and airmen work with the Department of Emergency Services to build a handline and conduct a controlled burn to prevent the further spread of a wildfire in Mandaree, N.D., Oct. 6, 2024. (Staff Sgt. Samuel J. Kroll/U.S. Army National Guard via AP)
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Natural gas flares sparked two wildfires in North Dakota, state agency says

Natural gas flares at oil wells sparked two North Dakota wildfires earlier this fall, according to reports from the North Dakota Fire Marshal's...

(FILES) A general view where a dam burst in the village of Bento Rodrigues, in Mariana, the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais on November 6, 2015.   A Brazilian court on November 14, 2024, cleared mining giants BHP and Vale, and their Brazilian joint venture Samarco, of responsibility over a 2015 dam collapse that caused the country's worst ever environmental disaster. (AFP)
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BHP, Vale cleared by Brazil court over 2015 dam disaster

A Brazilian court on Thursday cleared BHP, Vale, and their Brazilian joint venture Samarco, of responsibility over the 2015 dam collapse.

New Delhi and the surrounding metropolitan area, home to more than 30 million people, consistently tops world rankings for air pollution in winter (AFP)
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New Delhi shuts all primary schools due to smog

New Delhi ordered all primary schools to cease in-person classes until further notice on Thursday night due to worsening smog in the sprawling...

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with managers and executives during a visit to the Cameron LNG (Liquid Natural Gas) Export Facility in Hackberry, Louisiana, U.S., May 14, 2019. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
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US energy draws up a wish list for new Trump administration

Trump has vowed to scrap offshore wind projects, roll back climate regulations, open more federal lands and waters to oil and gas drilling.

Members of Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) fire brigade work to extinguish a fire rising in Amazon rainforest in Apui, Amazonas state, Brazil, August 8, 2024. REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photo
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Brazil’s Tocantins state to offer $430 million in carbon credits

The value and number of carbon credits is contingent on the state successfully reducing deforestation.

Activists participate in a demonstration for climate finance at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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For 3rd straight year, no improvement in Earth’s projected warming

Earth remains on a path to be 2.7 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial times, according to Climate Action Tracker.

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