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Environmentalists sue to stop Gulf of Mexico oil and gas auction

By Clark Mindock (Reuters) - Environmental groups sued the Biden administration on Monday to block the sale of oil and gas drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico. The lawsuit filed by Earthjustice, the

Chile announces biological corridor to protect endangered deer

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile launched a program on Monday to protect the huemul, an endangered southern deer, by creating a biological corridor that includes an area recently donated by the family of

Australia set for record crop exports after heavy rains

By Alasdair Pal SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia is expected to report record-breaking agricultural exports in the current financial year, the government said on Tuesday, after years of high rainfall

CERAWEEK-UAE’s Jaber urges Big Oil to join fight against climate change

By Maha El Dahan DUBAI/HOUSTON (Reuters) -A top oil executive from the United Arab Emirates on Monday urged the energy industry to join the fight against climate change, borrowing a famous line from a

French environment minister urges quick restrictions to avoid water crisis

PARIS (Reuters) -France's 100 departmental prefects should not hesitate to enact quick decrees restricting local water use given alarmingly low groundwater levels, French Environment Minister

German minister says ‘on right track’ to solving CO2-emitting car row

By Kate Abnett and Andreas Rinke BERLIN/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Germany's transport minister is hopeful of a solution to a row with the European Union over the bloc's law to end sales of new CO2-emitting

EU rewrites climate diplomacy deal to resolve nuclear sticking point

By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union countries intend to push for a global phasing out of fossil fuels among their climate diplomacy priorities this year, which the bloc hopes to approve

Philippines to deploy underwater vehicle in rush to locate sunken tanker

By Enrico Dela Cruz and Adrian Portugal MANILA/POLA, Oriental Mindoro (Reuters) - Philippine authorities believe they have found the location of a tanker that sank off a central province last week, as

Pollution returns to northern China as industrial activities rise

BEIJING (Reuters) - Thirteen northern Chinese cities surrounding the capital Beijing have issued pollution alerts over the last few days, raising concerns that an industrial recovery in the region is

Climate change to cost Germany up to 900 billion euros by 2050, say economic research firms

The study also comes amid debates in ruling coalition on how Germany could cut greenhouse emissions in challenging sectors to become carbon neutral by 2045.

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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.