The UK’s seemingly endless supply of fresh fruit and vegetables may be heading for a difficult test. A powerful El Niño climate pattern developing in the tropical Pacific is threatening to disrupt
Officials from the Trump administration reportedly used aggressive tactics to prevent the adoption of a landmark UN-backed climate agreement for global shipping, sources told the Financial Times. According to more than ten
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Petrobras, Brazil’s majority state-owned oil company, has received permission to drill an exploratory well 100 miles offshore from the ancestral lands of the Karipuna people in Amapa state, a move that has
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Scientific institutions in China and Japan have announced a collaboration to enhance typhoon observation and research, as warming global temperatures threaten to make the powerful storms more destructive. The initiative will enable
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A group of United Nations human rights experts has welcomed the adoption of the ASEAN Declaration on the Right to a Safe, Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment, calling it a “historic step”
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Sri Lanka is facing an unprecedented escalation in the human-elephant conflict, with both elephant and human deaths reaching alarming levels. The year 2023 marked the highest number
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The United States and Qatar have issued a joint warning to the European Union, claiming that new climate and human rights regulations could jeopardize trade, investment, and energy security across the bloc.
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For the first time, mosquitoes have been confirmed in Iceland — a country long believed to be free of the buzzing insects. Three specimens of the mosquito species Culiseta annulata were found
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The Galápagos Islands harbor some of the most unique ecosystems on the planet. Their isolated location in the middle of the Pacific Ocean has allowed species to evolve independently from their relatives
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The International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Extraordinary Session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC), held from 14 to 17 October 2025 in London, concluded without agreement on the proposed Net-Zero Framework for
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This summer, there were days in tropical cities when it was unbearable to walk out in the sunlight. In Mango, Togo, for instance, the temperature soared to 44°C in March and April. Heat maps depict a
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Global warming is accelerating past dangerous thresholds faster than previously expected, with the world’s coral reefs now undergoing what scientists describe as an “almost irreversible die-off” — marking the first major tipping
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A brutal police crackdown on September 27 against residents of Mannar, who have been staging a continuous 60-day satyagraha to demand community consultation on the Wind Power Project (Phase II), has drawn
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In the small Brazilian town of Belém do Solimões, community activist Josiane Otaviano Guilherme points to a cluster of huts where crack cocaine is openly sold. “It’s like a kind of street
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The promise of a green transition has become a key narrative of our time. Despite persistent climate denialism, governments, corporations, and multilateral institutions present themselves as champions of sustainability, climate action, and
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The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) has issued urgent new guidance, emphasizing that climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution are already undermining fundamental human rights and threatening
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