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South Africa gives go-ahead for TotalEnergies offshore drilling

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's environment ministry has given the go-ahead for TotalEnergies to drill offshore for natural gas and oil, after rejecting an appeal from more than a dozen

UK water firms eye hefty investments, rising bills

(Reuters) -Several UK water firms on Monday proposed investing billion of pounds to tackle water quality, leakage and pollution issues, in a move that an industry body said would see bills rise by an

Endangered Sumatran rhino born in Indonesia

JAKARTA (Reuters) - An endangered Sumatran rhinoceros, the smallest and hairiest of the4 five extant rhino species, was born in Indonesia last week in a conservation area, the government said on

Big Oil, heavy industry discuss emission curbs ahead of COP28

By Yousef Saba and Maha El Dahan ABU DHABI (Reuters) -Major oil and gas company chiefs held discussions with heavy industry bosses on Sunday in the United Arab Emirates in an effort to agree a firm

India’s monsoon rains hit five-year low due to El Nino, driest August in a century

Rainfall over the country during June to September was 94% of its long-period average, the lowest since 2018, IMD said in a statement.

If EU wants to cut emissions by 2030, it should look toward Mediterranean countries

Better-developed electricity links between the Northern, Southern and Eastern Mediterranean would be mutually beneficial for all involved.

Cleanliness drives need of hour, says Anurag Thakur

Hamirpur: Cleanliness drives are the need of the hour to keep the environment neat and clean, Union Minister Anurag Thakur said on Sunday and...

New York deluge triggers flash floods, brings chaos to subways

By Jonathan Allen and Brendan O'Brien NEW YORK (Reuters) -Torrential downpours after a week of mostly steady rainfall brought flash flooding to New York City on Friday, disrupting subway service,

Hundreds of Dutch farms grappling with bluetongue virus, government says

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Hundreds of farms in the Netherlands are grappling with an outbreak of the bluetongue virus in a setback for the country's farming industry, the Dutch government said on Friday.

EU’s candidate climate chief takes aim at fossil fuel subsidies, document shows

By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Former Dutch foreign minister Wopke Hoekstra, who is nominated to be the EU's new head of climate change policy, plans to act to phase out fossil fuel subsidies if

On Camera

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.