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El Nino, water management issues blamed for snarling Panama Canal

By Jake Spring SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The El Nino climate phenomenon, not climate change, drove lower rainfall last year that reduced the Panama Canal's water levels and contributed to shipping

Australia grants feasibility licences for offshore wind farms

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia on Wednesday gave the go-ahead for six projects to study the feasibility of building wind farms in waters off its southern coast as it looks to ramp up renewable energy to

Australian researchers eye sustainable aviation fuel from landfill gases

By James Redmayne SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian researchers have developed a chemical process that could produce sustainable aviation fuel from landfill gases as a way of cutting carbon emissions,

Cocoa prices recover after slumping 20% amid record low liquidity

By Maytaal Angel LONDON (Reuters) -World cocoa prices recovered on Tuesday after clocking losses of more than 20% for the week earlier in the session as technical triggers prevailed thanks to record

NotTurtle: NotCo releases AI-designed ‘turtle’ soup

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - It tastes like sought-after turtle soup but there is no trace of shelled critters in the bowl: Chilean plant-based food firm NotCo recreated this famous dish using artificial

Plastic pollution talks make modest progress but sidestep production curbs

By Valerie Volcovici OTTAWA (Reuters) -Negotiations on a future global treaty to tackle soaring plastic pollution ran overtime into Tuesday morning amid tense debates over whether the world should

G7 offers leeway to Germany, Japan in deal to quit coal by 2035

By Francesca Landini TURIN (Reuters) -Energy ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) major democracies agreed on Tuesday to end the use of coal in power generation during the first half of the next

Plastic pollution talks make modest progress but sidestep production curbs

By Valerie Volcovici OTTAWA (Reuters) -Negotiations on a future global treaty to tackle soaring plastic pollution ran overtime into Tuesday morning amid tense debates over whether the world should

US reforms green law to speed clean energy, infrastructure permits

By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House on Tuesday reformed the U.S. environmental review process for major projects that officials said would speed up approval of anything from power

Cocoa prices recover after slumping 20% amid record low liquidity

By Maytaal Angel LONDON (Reuters) -World cocoa prices recovered on Tuesday after clocking losses of more than 20% for the week earlier in the session as technical triggers prevailed thanks to record

On Camera

Make it a Fundamental Right of every religionist to propagate, convert: TT Krishnamachari

On 6 December 1948, TT Krishnamachari spoke in the Constituent Assembly during a debate on Article 19, supporting it as it is, including how it's framed in the matter of religion.

How businesses can become more resilient to the physical impacts of climate change

Extreme weather events have impacted 50% of corporate respondents to a recent survey. This underlines the importance of significant action now to increase climate resilience.

IAF chief AP Singh red-flags Tejas delay, says China ahead in technology & production capacity

Air force chief says HAL needs to churn out 24 aircraft per year. It is important for IAF to have indigenous weapons systems to deal with any security challenges, he says.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?