カテゴリー: Environment
Inferno spread to nearby homes, trapping residents, while full extent of damage still being assessedA fireball erupted from a burst gas pipeline outside Malaysia’s largest city, injuring 145 people as it burned for several hours before being extinguish…
Measures blocking companies involved in modern slavery from receiving public money could be overturnedMeasures that would have blocked companies found to have used forced labour in any part of the state-owned Great British Energy supply chain from rece…
Thousands of acres of rainforest is being cleared to produce palm oil, used in popular Nestlé and Mondelēz brandsWest Papua’s Indigenous people have called for a boycott of KitKat, Smarties and Aero chocolate, Oreo biscuits and Ritz crackers, and the c…
Made up of blobby tissue and living deep in the ocean, the distinctive species beat the longfin eel and pygmy pipehorse in the annual contestIt was once crowned the “world’s ugliest animal” and now the disgruntled-looking gelatinous blobfish has a new …
Hundreds of millions of pilgrims flocked to the Ganges for this year’s festival, housed in a sprawling temporary metropolis stretching across 4,000 hectares of the floodplains of Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh For 45 days the floodplains of Prayagraj, a ci…
Jorge Toledo’s comments come after approvals for coal power projects increased in second half of 2024The EU’s ambassador to China has urged Beijing to stop building coal-fired power plants, saying that its rapid approval of new projects was increasingl…
More than a thousand people have been evacuated near forest of Ofunato in northern region of IwateMore than a thousand people have been evacuated as Japan battles its largest wildfire in more than three decades.The flames are estimated to have spread o…
Velvet worms have rows of pudgy legs, skin speckled like a galaxy and dissolve their prey with sticky goo An ancient gummy-looking worm-like creature with a vicious hunting method that involves projecting sticky goo from its head has been crowned New Z…
Study found electric vehicles and batteries added largest amount to country’s clean-energy economyClean energy contributed a record 10% of China’s gross domestic product in 2024, an analysis has found.With sales and investments worth 13.6tn yuan (£1.5t…
Minimum quotas for purchase of coal power and new project approvals threaten major advances in renewable energy production, thinktanks sayChina’s energy production is putting coal and renewables in competition with each other, according to a new analys…
Claim over the 2019 Rennell Island disaster, which saw more than 300 tonnes of fuel leak into the water, filed in the Solomons High courtThe companies allegedly responsible for the one of the worst environmental disasters in Solomon Islands’ history ar…
Tokyo wants to drop attempts to lessen its reliance on nuclear power, according to a draft energy planMore than a decade after the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, Japan is again turning to nuclear power as it struggles to reach it…
A wave of incidents threatens the survival of the species in the country, say conservationistsInside the Pakistan Museum of Natural History, in Islamabad, two taxidermists work on a leopard skin. They scrape away at the remaining flesh and sprinkle the…
The mass death of once-endangered olive ridley turtles in January has prompted an increase in wildlife patrols and a crackdown on fishing boatsMore than 1,100 dead olive ridley sea turtles have washed ashore on the beaches of Tamil Nadu state in southe…
Authorities are hoping to to slow population growth and curb conflict with humansThailand will begin giving birth control to a small number of wild female elephants this year, as the country struggles with the growing problem of human-elephant conflict…