Sri Lankan police have arrested a man suspected of shooting Kawanthissa, one of the country’s best-known wild tuskers, and seized two illegal firearms as authorities investigate the circumstances surrounding the elephant’s death
Almost similar to the 29 earlier COP (Conference of the Parties) that were organized in different venues around the world each year, COP 30 at Belem in Brazil also started with high
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Spanning nine nations and covering more than 5.5 million square kilometers—roughly the size of the continental United States—the Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest. Often called the “lungs of the Earth,” it
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French President Emmanuel Macron has raised fresh alarms about the future of the Group of 20, suggesting the international economic forum may be “reaching the end of a cycle.” Speaking at the
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On Friday, 17 October 2025, the UN Development Programme released the 2025 edition of its Multidimensional Poverty Index Report. For the first time, the report directly evaluates their multidimensional poverty data against climate
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The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has warned that extreme heat is reshaping the “riskscape” across Asia and the Pacific, with 2024 recorded as the
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Iran is confronting its most severe water crisis in decades, with authorities warning that Tehran, home to more than 10 million people, could soon become uninhabitable if rainfall does not arrive before
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A key European Parliament committee is preparing to endorse a sweeping new emissions-reduction target, marking a critical milestone in the European Union’s long-term climate agenda. According to Bloomberg, the environment committee is
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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, host of the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference, embodies a striking paradox in global climate diplomacy: a climate champion calling for more oil, a rainforest
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A decade-long effort to steer the planet away from the most catastrophic impacts of climate change has stumbled, with the Paris Agreement’s most ambitious target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C now
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European Union member states have endorsed a landmark agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 90% over the next decade compared with 1990 levels, reinforcing the bloc’s leadership in global climate action.
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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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