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China’s State Council issues plan to create carbon control system

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's cabinet on Friday issued a work plan to accelerate the development of a carbon emissions control system to help China meet its target of hitting peak carbon emissions by

Chile’s capital sees first rainless July on record

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Not a single drop of rain fell in Santiago or Chile's metropolitan region this July for the first time since records have been kept. Alicia Moya, a meteorologist for Chile's

Magnitude 5.3 earthquake strikes southern Italy, GFZ says

ROME (Reuters) - An earthquake of around magnitude 5.0 struck southern Italy on Thursday, monitoring agencies reported, and was felt in a wider area. The quake was close to the town of Cosenza and

Andean glacier retreat unprecedented in human civilization, study finds

By Alexander Villegas SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Recent glacier retreat across the Andes is unprecedented in the history of human civilization, according to a new study published in the Science journal on

Primordial spiny slug from China was forerunner of world’s mollusks

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Earth's roughly 76,000 species of mollusks come in an impressive variety of forms including clams, oysters, scallops, mussels, snails, slugs and even some

Bolivia battles record wildfires, with worst likely ahead

By Lucinda Elliott and Jake Spring (Reuters) - Bolivia is grappling with a record number of fires in the first seven months of the year, satellite data showed on Thursday, as the flames send villagers

China Vice Premier calls for action to secure autumn grain harvest

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Vice Premier Liu Guozhong has urged local authorities to seek to minimise agricultural losses and ensure a robust autumn grain harvest, after torrential rain and floods

Drop in S.Africa’s rhino poaching linked to dehorning programmes

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa recorded 229 rhinos poached in the first half of 2024, a slight decline from the same period last year, and the government said global cooperation is essential to

Spanish lab sterilises mosquitoes as climate change fuels spread of dengue fever

By Eva Manez and Horaci Garcia NAQUERA, Spain (Reuters) - A Spanish laboratory is breeding and sterilising thousands of tiger mosquitoes to fight dengue fever and other diseases as climate change

Remnants of Typhoon Gaemi leave 30 dead in China’s Hunan, CCTV reports

BEIJING (Reuters) - Thirty people were killed and 35 are still missing in rains and storms in the wake of Typhoon Gaemi which swept into southern China last week, the state broadcaster said on

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University townships — India’s chance to build its own version of what America got right

India’s university towns initiative is an opportunity to do something we have never managed at scale: build knowledge ecosystems rather than knowledge silos.

FTA partners drive India’s trade surge as reliance on non-FTA countries dips, says NITI Aayog report

Share of trade with FTA partners rose from 4.6% in 2006 to 28.8% in 2024. India is currently negotiating or advancing agreements with US, Israel, GCC, Canada & Mexico.

Japan overhauls post-World War II pacifist military approach, lifts restrictions on defence exports

Since October last year, Japan PM Sanae Takaichi has planned to increase defence spending target to 2 percent of GDP.

Trump, Netanyahu’s Iran gamble: The regime change rebound

American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.