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EU Parliament passes weakened pollution limits for livestock farms

By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The EU Parliament on Tuesday gave its final approval to new rules to cut pollution from livestock farms, but only after agreeing with EU countries to make the law

Police remove Greta Thunberg from blocking Swedish parliament

By Ilze Filks STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Swedish police on Tuesday forcibly removed Greta Thunberg and other climate activists who were blocking the entrance to parliament for a second day. Two police

China’s emissions, efficiency targets under threat after falling short in 2023

By David Stanway SINGAPORE (Reuters) - China is falling short on key targets for tackling climate-warming emissions, and analysts said Beijing's credibility in global climate talks could be at risk

Top MIGA official warns of credit guarantee market fragmentation risks

By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) - A top World Bank group official has warned that the market for providing credit guarantees could become fragmented as a flood of new multilateral lenders starts

Texas challenges US EPA limits on oil and gas industry methane emissions

By Clark Mindock (Reuters) - Texas sued the U.S. government over Environmental Protection Agency rules published on Friday, that crack down on the oil and gas industry's releases of methane, a potent

US carbon pipeline company pledges no oil recovery, but Bakken drillers want it

By Leah Douglas (Reuters) - Summit Carbon Solutions, which is trying to build the biggest carbon dioxide capture pipeline in the United States to transport and bury greenhouse gases, has repeatedly

Japan weather bureau says 80% chance El Nino will end in spring

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's weather bureau said on Monday that there was an 80% chance that the El Nino phenomenon would end during the Northern Hemisphere spring. The bureau also said there was a 40%

In Bolivia, heavy rains prompt authorities to declare state of emergency

LA PAZ (Reuters) - Heavy rains in Bolivia's La Paz prompted authorities to declare a state of emergency, a government document showed on Sunday, as an overflowing river destroyed many houses over the

Cheetah ‘Gamini’ gives birth to 5 cubs, number of India-born cubs now 13

In February 2023, 12 cheetahs were brought to Kuno National Park from South Africa. Gamini is part of the group brought from South Africa.

‘Brazenly aided illegalities’ — how SC panel indicted ex-Uttarakhand minister in Corbett safari case

SC indicted ex-Uttarakhand forest minister Harak Singh Rawat & a DFO for diverting forest land for non-forest use, felling over 6,000 trees in buffer zone of Corbett National Park.

On Camera

Read the Kashmir verdict. It’s time to stop treating it like a national security crisis

Election after election has seen Kashmir’s people demonstrate that, like other Indians, they seek a future shaped by democratic rights and norms

RBI’s policy-setting body keeps rates unchanged for 10th straight time, changes stance to ‘neutral’

Change in stance signals possibility of rate cuts, potentially as early as December, depending on inflation trends & global economy. Growth projection for FY 2024-25 retained at 7.2%.

Massive in size & capable of heavyweight strikes. Russia’s S-70 Okhotnik is unlike any other drone

No clarity on whether it was shot down intentionally or accidentally.Some reports suggest that it was purposely brought down to prevent Ukrainians getting their hands on the drone.

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?