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South America weather experts see La Nina, El Nino frequency rising

LIMA (Reuters) - The climate phenomena known as El Nino and La Nina, which bring waves of heat, cold, rain or drought, will be more frequent and extreme in coming years, after South America suffered

Explainer-New EPA power sector rules set up likely legal clashes

By Clark Mindock (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday finalized new regulations targeting pollution from power plants, including a landmark rule that requires sweeping

Biden administration sets landmark rules to clean up US power sector

By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's administration on Thursday announced final rules targeting carbon, air and water pollution from power plants that it says could cut

US environmental regulator revamps rules to clean up power sector

By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden's administration on Thursday announced it has finalized rules for power plants, that it says could cut over 1 billion metric tons from

Oil, chemical industry lobbyists flood UN talks on cutting plastic pollution

By Valerie Volcovici and Gloria Dickie OTTAWA (Reuters) -Nearly 200 fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists plan to join this week's United Nations negotiations on the first global treaty to curb

Bangladesh to reopen schools despite heatwave

By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh will reopen schools from next week despite a brutal heatwave sweeping the country that has seen temperatures soar to 43 degrees Celsius (109°F), officials

Emperor penguins suffered mass breeding failures in 2023 amid record low sea ice

By Gloria Dickie LONDON (Reuters) - Record low sea ice in late 2023 led to breeding failures in one-fifth of Antarctica's emperor penguin colonies, scientists with the British Antarctic Survey said on

Above-normal rainfall may ease inflation concerns, says Finance Ministry report

Last week, IMD said the country is likely to receive above average monsoon rainfall in 2024, a potential boost for its farm output which heavily depends on summer rains.

China evacuates entire town as record rains, winds lash its south

BEIJING (Reuters) - Relentless rains, hail and winds of near hurricane intensity battered southern China, forcing the evacuation of an entire town of more than 1,700 people in the province of

Oil, chemical industry lobbyists pile in to UN talks to curb plastics

By Valerie Volcovici and Gloria Dickie OTTAWA (Reuters) - Nearly 200 fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists plan to join this week's United Nations negotiations on the first global treaty to curb

On Camera

Modi’s speech rightly questions politics of appeasement. Wrongly targets all Muslims

The PM did make a valid point when he criticised the Congress for categorising the entire Muslim community in Karnataka under the Other Backward Classes. It is pure appeasement of Ashraaf Muslims and discriminates against Pasmandas.

Foreign policy resonating among more Indians in 2nd & 3rd tier towns of India, says EAM Jaishankar

Speaking at launch of economist Surjit Bhalla’s book, S Jaishankar also highlights Gen Z’s engagement with ‘reel culture’, which has 'promoted awareness, created interest in many subjects'.

Germany removes restrictions, India can now buy small arms from its firms

Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.