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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

Biden administration aims to clean up power sector with revamped rules

By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration on Thursday announced it has finalized rules targeting carbon, air and water pollution from power plants that it says could cut

Monsoon forecast bodes well, may ease inflation concerns, India economic report says

(Reuters) - The forecast of an above-normal monsoon in 2024 bodes well for a good harvest and may ease India's inflation concerns, a monthly economic review by the finance ministry said on Thursday.

Insurers’ climate alliance relaunches after member exodus

By Simon Jessop LONDON (Reuters) - A global insurance coalition intended to help curb the sector's greenhouse gas emissions has relaunched with a new name and weaker membership requirements in

More than 100 pilot whales stranded in Western Australia, experts say

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Marine wildlife experts were frantically trying to rescue some 140 pilot whales stranded on Thursday in the shallow waters of an estuary south of the state of Western Australia. The

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.

Iran’s Shahab-3, India’s Agni-1 to US’s Minuteman III—ballistic missile arsenals, who has what

Iran used Shahab-3, along with Fattah-1 hypersonic missiles, to attack Israel after the killing of Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah in air strikes on Lebanon's Beirut.

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?