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Massive river flooding expected in China’s Guangdong, threatening millions

By Bernard Orr and Ethan Wang BEIJING (Reuters) -Major rivers, waterways and reservoirs in China's Guangdong province are threatening to unleash dangerous floods, forcing the government on Sunday to

Environmental issues cause 13 million deaths yearly—Nature action is still trapped in a silo

An ecological mindset invites us to recognise that the health and well-being of our families, communities and nations are deeply interdependent with the health of Earth.

PM Sunak sets Britain back on climate change, says watchdog head

By Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has set Britain back on tackling climate change and must do more on heating and industrial emissions to stop slipping behind other

East Africa’s rising ‘soda lakes’ are threatening its iconic pink flamingos

Rising water levels in East Africa’s salty and highly-alkaline soda lakes are decimating the cyanobacteria the birds have evolved to eat.

Poland to get $266 million from World Bank for Clean Air program, finance minister says

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland has signed a 250-million-euro ($266.35 million) agreement with the World Bank to help finance its Clean Air programme, Finance Minister Andrzej Domanski said late on Friday.

Superfund designations could fuel PFAS litigation, enforcement

By Clark Mindock (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has designated two of the most commonly used "forever chemicals" as hazardous substances under the federal Superfund law, in a bid

Alberta municipalities, farmers agree to cut water use as drought persists

By Nia Williams (Reuters) - Municipalities and irrigation districts in the western Canadian province of Alberta have agreed to use less water this summer to combat a severe ongoing drought, the

World Bank to provide $416 million loan to Turkey to reduce air pollutants

ANKARA (Reuters) - The World Bank said on Friday that it signed a $416 million loan agreement with the Development and Investment Bank of Turkey (TKYB) to help Turkish industries reduce air pollutants

US restricts drilling and mining in Alaska wilderness, angering state leaders

By Nichola Groom (Reuters) -The Biden administration on Friday took steps to limit both oil and gas drilling and mining in Alaska, angering state officials who said the restrictions will cost jobs and

US designates PFAS chemicals as Superfund hazardous substances

By Clark Mindock (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday designated a pair of widely used industrial chemicals as hazardous substances under the country's Superfund program,

On Camera

Why Modi-Shah have failed to develop mass leaders in states the way Vajpayee-Advani did

BJP had leaders like Modi, Chouhan, Raje, Raman Singh, BSY, and Dhumal who kept the party’s flame burning. Those promoted by Modi-Shah in the last 10 years fail to inspire confidence.

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.

‘Nightmare at Chennai Marina’: 4 dead, 96 hospitalised after pandemonium at packed IAF air show

Lakhs of people were stranded at beach in heat as crowd control measures apparently failed. At least 14 lakh people were in attendance though police had expected around 10 lakh.

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?