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Trump EPA invites companies to seek exemptions from air rules by email

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration invited companies to email the Environmental Protection Agency to seek presidential exemptions from nine clean-air regulations, including mercury limits

Fungi vital to life face growing risk of extinction, study shows

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - Nearly a third of species of fungi assessed by an international conservation group are at risk of extinction from threats like deforestation and agricultural expansion

Nitesh Rane’s push for commercial use of reclaimed land reignites Mumbai’s war of open spaces

The Maharashtra minister has since said that his letter to BMC, seeking a handover of land reclaimed for coastal road project, has been 'misinterpreted'.

South Korea battles worst ever wildfires as death toll hits 28

By Minwoo Park and Daewoung Kim ANDONG, South Korea (Reuters) -Wildfires raging in South Korea doubled in size on Thursday from a day earlier, as authorities called the blazes the country's worst

UK climate protest group Just Stop Oil says it will stop direct action

LONDON (Reuters) - British climate protest group Just Stop Oil, whose high-profile stunts have included throwing soup at a Van Gogh painting and disrupting sporting and theatre events, said on

UK water companies released sewage for 3.6 million hours in 2024

LONDON (Reuters) - British water companies released untreated sewage into the country's waterways for more than 3.6 million hours in 2024, a slight increase on the amount recorded the year before,

Britain’s greenhouse gas emissions fell 4% in 2024, government data shows

By Susanna Twidale LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions fell by 4% in 2024, provisional government data showed on Thursday, as the country’s last coal-fired power plant closed

Bolivia declares emergency after floods kill over 50

LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivian President Luis Arce declared a national emergency on Wednesday after torrential rains and severe floods left more than 50 dead and displaced more than 100,000 across the

Deadline of Petrobras deal with vessel adds pressure to Foz do Amazonas request

By Marta Nogueira and Fabio Teixeira RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian oil firm Petrobras needs to be granted an environmental license to drill in the sensitive Foz do Amazonas region by the end of

ING first globally important bank to meet climate watchdog standards

By Virginia Furness and Simon Jessop LONDON (Reuters) - ING has become the first systemically important global bank to have its climate goals validated as being in line with efforts to limit global

On Camera

I turned up at Asha Bhosle’s door as a fan. She invited me home

The words she wrote in our autograph book echo in my mind now: 'Mar kar bhi jo jeete hain, wohi jeete hain'—The only lives worth living are those remembered long after death.

Fuel shock hits Asia’s rice bowl as farmers cut planting

War-driven surge in fuel and fertilizer costs forces farmers across Southeast Asia to delay harvests, scale back sowing and risk lower output.

Iran’s Shahed vs US’s LUCAS—The drone arithmetic reshaping the West Asia war

From Kyiv to the Gulf, Iran’s Shahed rewrote the rules of aerial warfare. Now, the US has its own copy of the cheap drones, LUCAS.

The world’s in a flux. India must reform, consolidate & build a strong economy

We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.