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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

The Airbus Upnext flying truck, a connected truck representing a copy of an Airbus A350 cockpit equipped with artificial intelligence, satellite antennas, GPS, radar and lidar to make taxi and lidar operations autonomous, avoiding collisions on airport tarmacs is presented at the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups, in Paris, France, May 22, 2024. REUTERS/Stephanie Lecocq
AviationElectric Vehicles (EVs)NewsTransport

Airbus fits electric truck with airliner cockpit to study safer taxiing

Airbus has fitted a with basic A350 airliner controls - that it hopes can demonstrate how automated taxiing will make airports safer

A woman wades through floodwaters in Garissa, Kenya earlier this month (AFP)
AnalysisClimateNewsReportsWeather

El Nino not responsible for East Africa floods, say scientists

The El Nino weather pattern did not have "any influence" on widespread flooding in East Africa this year, an expert group of scientists...

Tesla Model Y on display at the Everything Electric exhibition at the ExCeL London international exhibition and convention centre in London, Britain, March 28, 2024.  REUTERS/Peter Cziborra/File Photo
BusinessElectric Vehicles (EVs)NewsTransport

Tesla slashes Model Y production in Shanghai, data shows

Tesla has cut output of its best-selling Model Y electric car by a double-digit percentage number at its Shanghai plant since March

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...

Shobha Londhe, widow of farmer Tatya, who killed himself, pours water on her cow to cool the animal on a hot summer's day outside her house, in Talegaon village, Beed district, India, Friday, May 3, 2024. Londhe is one of India's 120 million farmers who share fast-shrinking water resources as groundwater is pumped out faster than rain can replenish it. “He was struggling because we were always in debt,” she said. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
ClimateNewsWeather

Indian farmers are weary of politicians’ response to water crisis

Politicians have done little to secure water for Indian farmers, with activists saying that big businesses are being prioritized instead

Rescue workers evacuate a woman and her pet from a flooded area at Cavalhada neighborhood, after heavy rains in Porto Alegre, May 23, 2024. REUERS/Diego vara
ClimateNewsWeather

Heavy rains return to southern Brazil, flooding Porto Alegre

Record flooding over the past month in southern Brazil has killed 163 people and displaced around 600,000 more.

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