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Explainer-What’s causing the chronic haze across Southeast Asia?

JAKARTA (Reuters) - The perennial issue of transboundary haze has again sparked friction in Southeast Asia, with Malaysia's environment minister writing to the Indonesian government this week calling

IAEA panel will visit Fukushima nuclear plant later this month, Japan says

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan on Friday said a task force from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will visit the Fukushima nuclear power plant later this month for the first time since it started

UAE opens 104 MW wind project ahead of U.N. climate summit

DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates has launched its first wind project of commercial size, making use of technology to exploit low wind speeds, as it pushes to boost renewables before hosting

Highly endangered Javan rhinos welcome a new family member

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Javan rhinos, one of the world's most endangered species, have a new family member - a female calf believed to have been born in February, Indonesia's environment ministry said.

Indonesia says no transboundary haze to Malaysia, fires on decline

By Ananda Teresia JAKARTA (Reuters) - Forest fires in some parts of Indonesia have declined and no haze had been detected moving to Malaysia, Indonesia's environment minister said on Friday, a day

ASEAN statement see commitment to eventual elimination of crop burning

The pledge comes as air quality hit unhealthy levels in several parts of Malaysia in recent days and after weeks of elevated pollution in Indonesia.

Magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Japan’s Izu islands – EMSC

(Reuters) - A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck Japan's Izu islands on Oct. 6, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), EMSC said. (

2023 on track to become hottest year on record, says EU climate service

By Charlotte Van Campenhout BRUSSELS (Reuters) - This year is on track to become the hottest on record, with the global mean temperature to date this year 0.52 degrees Celsius higher than average, the

Italy’s vexuvo to invest 1.5 billion euros in solar panel sites

MILAN (Reuters) - Italian renewable energy producer vexuvo will invest 1.5 billion euros ($1.6 billion) on solar panels sites in the next three years as it aims to generate earnings of over 20 million

A burst glacial lake caused Sikkim flood. What’s a GLOF & why Indian subcontinent’s at great risk

Scientists have ample evidence of GLOF events unleashing megafloods. The Sikkim flash flood happened after decades of warnings about exactly such an occurrence. 

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Euphoria season 3 is an empty spectacle. Fans are upset, they want it cancelled

Euphoria's characters, who once carried moral ambiguity and emotional density, now feel like flat archetypes of the people they once were.

Strategic petroleum reserves: Why India needs bigger oil buffers & how others compare | Cut The Clutter

This is the transcript of Ep 1830 of Cut the Clutter, where Shekhar Gupta explains why strategic petroleum reserves are a national necessity & how India compares with China, US & Japan.

DRDO unveils amphibious battle platforms with crewless turrets, anti-tank missile capability

Tracked and wheeled variants, built in collaboration with Tata Advanced Systems and Bharat Forge, carry 30mm turrets, cross water using hydro jets, and are 65% indigenous.

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.