Friday, 24 January 2025

Focus on Environment

FILE PHOTO: The logo of French oil and gas company TotalEnergies is seen at the company's headquarters skyscraper in the financial and business district of La Defense, near Paris, France September 14, 2023. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes/File Photo
ClimateEnvironmentNewsOilPolitics

Greenpeace activists protest at TotalEnergies shareholder meeting

Greenpeace activists climbed a building near TotalEnergies' Paris HQ on Friday to criticise the company's climate change strategy

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks at the Lucy Evans Baylands Nature Interpretive Center and Preserve in Palo Alto, Calif., June 19, 2023. Biden talked about climate change, clean energy jobs and protecting the environment. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
EmissionsEnvironmentNewsPoliticsReports

‘Green blitz’: As election nears, Biden pushes rules on environment

The limits on emissions from fossil-fueled electric stations are Biden's most ambitious effort yet to roll back pollution

A woman walks back towards her home after filling water from a shallow well in a desert area on a hot summer day in Barmer, Rajasthan, India, April 26, 2024. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/ File Photo
ClimateEnvironmentNewsWeather

Scorching heatwave in India’s Rajasthan kills nine

Extreme temperatures throughout Asia last month were made worse most likely as a result of human-driven climate change

FILE PHOTO: The logo of commodities trader Glencore is pictured in front of the company's headquarters in Baar, Switzerland, July 18, 2017.  REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo
Carbon ManagementEmissionsEnvironmentNewsPolitics

Glencore carbon storage project blocked over groundwater risk

Glencore said the decision, made by the Australian state of Queensland, was the result of misinformation and political opportunism

FILE - A family uses a canoe after fleeing floodwaters that wreaked havoc in Ombaka Village, Kisumu, Kenya, April 17, 2024. The impact of the calamitous rains that struck East Africa from March to May was intensified by a mix of climate change and rapid growth of urban areas, an international team of climate scientists said in a study. (AP Photo/Brian Ongoro, File)
ClimateEnvironmentNewsWeather

Climate change worsened the impact of East African rains

The impact of the rains that struck East Africa from March to May was intensified by a mix of climate change and rapid...

A section of the river Bure at the National Trust’s Blickling Estate in Norfolk (National Trust Images/ PA)
ClimateEnvironmentNewsResiliency

Conservation project makes chalk stream more resilient to climate change

A stretch of a chalk stream that feeds into the Norfolk Broads has been given a new lease of life, with steps taken...

LEZs are in place in Scotland’s biggest cities (Alamy/PA)
ClimateEmissionsEnvironmentNewsTransport

Support for low-emission zones in Scotland growing

The number of people who support the rollout of low-emission zones (LEZs) in Scotland has grown since last year, a poll suggests.

FILE - An activist holds a placard during a protest against Myitsone dam project on the Irrawaddy River in Kachin State, in front of city hall in Yangon, Myanmar Saturday, Jan. 18, 2019. Myanmar's military government appears to be reviving consideration of a massive China-backed hydroelectric dam project, work on which was suspended more than a decade ago after protests over its possible impact on the environment. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw, File)
ConstructionEconomyElectricityEnvironmentHydropowerInfrastructureNewsPoliticsUtilities

Myanmar may revive Chinese hydroelectric dam plan axed in 2011

Amid power cuts, $3.6bn Myanmar dam project could be reconsidered years after it was suspended due to environmental concerns.

A Tiehm's buckwheat plant starts to bud in its native habitat in the Silver Peak Range in Esmeralda County, Nevada beside Rhyolite Ridge, the site of a proposed lithium mine (AFP)
ClimateCritical MineralsElectric Vehicles (EVs)EnvironmentMineralsMiningNews

Flower or power? Campaigners fear lithium mine could kill rare plant

Campaigners fear Tiehm's buckwheat could be under threat as Nevada lithium mine plans to operate for 26 years around rare plant's habitat.

Flooding has hit much of the UK this winter (Ben Birchall/PA)
ElectionsEmissionsEnvironmentNewsPolitics

Politicians urged to show ambition on green agenda in UK election

As the UK witnesses the impacts of climate change, energy insecurity and environmental damage, campaigners warned green issues consistently rank among British people’s...

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