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Brazil evicts miners from Yanomami territory, prepares for more removals

By Anthony Boadle and Ricardo Brito BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil has ousted almost all illegal gold miners from the Yanomami territory, its largest indigenous reservation, and will remove miners from

Colombia sharply raises reforestation target to more than 1.8 million acres

By Iñigo Alexander BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's government has sharply raised its reforestation target to 750,000 hectares (1.85 million acres) by 2026, the environment ministry said, as part of the

Exclusive-EU drafts plan to allow e-fuel combustion engine cars

By Markus Wacket BERLIN/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Commission has drafted a plan to allow sales of new cars with internal combustion engines after 2035 if they run only on climate neutral

Factbox-Big Oil’s climate targets

(Updates BP, TotalEnergies, adds detail on what scientists says is needed in terms of emissions cuts) (Reuters) - The world's top oil and gas companies have set varying targets to reduce greenhouse

Global renewables capacity grew by 10% last year-IRENA

(Corrects first para and headline to remove "record" rise in percentage terms) By Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) -Global renewable energy capacity grew by 9.6% last year but needs to grow by three

Trash trawler launched off Indonesia’s Bali

BALI, Indonesia (Reuters) - A small boat designed to collect ocean waste took to the water for the first time off Indonesia's Bali island on Tuesday, launching a mission to tackle pollution in a

Global renewables capacity grew by record 10% last year-IRENA

By Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) - Global renewable energy capacity grew by a record 9.6% last year but needs to grow by three times the current rate to limit global warming, the International

Explainer-What California’s atmospheric rivers mean for drought, floods, fires

By Steve Gorman and Daniel Trotta LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California has experienced an exceptionally wet winter with 11 atmospheric rivers battering the state since late December. A twelfth such

EU lawmakers toughen up draft law on environmental crimes

By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - European Union lawmakers on Tuesday toughened up a draft law to crack down on illegal timber trade and other crimes against the environment, with sanctions that include

Britain’s Drax pauses $2.5 billion biomass carbon capture plans

By Nora Buli and Susanna Twidale (Reuters) - British power generator Drax will pause its planned 2 billion pound ($2.45 billion) UK investment in bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS)

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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.