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Solar power overtook coal in EU’s electricity mix in 2024, Ember says

By Susanna Twidale (Reuters) - Solar power overtook coal in the European Union’s electricity mix for the first time last year, while wind power’s share plateaued, data from energy think tank Ember

Elephants cannot sue to get out of the zoo, Colorado’s top court rules

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - Five elderly African elephants at a Colorado zoo will stay there, after the state's highest court said the animals have no legal right to demand their release because

Parts of Florida Panhandle shut down by historic winter storm

By Rich McKay and Georgina McCartney ATLANTA (Reuters) - An historic January storm dumped more deep snow along the U.S. Gulf Coast on Wednesday after bringing Houston and New Orleans to a near

Los Angeles wildfires spark interest in adobe, natural building materials

By Peter Henderson ALTADENA, California (Reuters) - Marialyce Pedersen stood in a white Tyvek suit on her Altadena, California, lot leveled by this month's wildfires. Her house was reduced to ash that

Delhi weather disrupts flights, trains, causes delays, AQI recorded as ‘poor’

Homeless people continued to take to night shelters to escape the cold in Delhi. The Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board has set up 235 pagoda tents to provide shelter to the homeless.

Carbon markets investor kicks off $1.5 billion Amazon protection plan in Davos

By Simon Jessop, Susanna Twidale and Virginia Furness (Reuters) - A carbon markets investor backed by Swiss-trading house Mercuria said on Wednesday it had joined with two non-profits to raise an

Trump says he will issue executive order to make water available in California

(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will issue an executive order to increase the availability of water in California, following disastrous wildfires that recently tore through

Ports in Texas limit activity amid cold weather

By Arathy Somasekhar HOUSTON (Reuters) - Port Freeport on Tuesday said it expects limited vessel activity while Port Houston said all of its public facilities will remain closed through Wednesday as

Rare snowstorm blankets Houston and New Orleans in white

By Georgina McCartney and Brendan O'Brien HOUSTON (Reuters) -A rare winter storm churned across the U.S. Gulf Coast on Tuesday, bringing heavy snow, ice and wind gusts to a region where flurries are

Brazil taps COP30 head, warns of Trump’s impact on climate talks

By Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's newly nominated head of the planned 2025 COP30 climate summit in the Amazonian city of Belem warned on Tuesday that President Donald Trump's

On Camera

Asha Bhosle, Lata Mangeshkar didn’t have a cabaret-classical split. It was about genre, style

Consider Asha Bhosle and Kishore Kumar’s duet ‘Chhod Do Aanchal’. The sequence was set in a flower garden, and the girl’s bashfulness was not even remotely relatable to a cabaret dancer.

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.