Just weeks before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Chinese authorities restricted half of all private cars from the city’s roads, alternating daily bans for number plates ending in even and odd numbers. The radical move was just one of a suite of measures aiming to curb the city’s choking smog, alongside factory closures and halts on…
COP30 hosts Brazil will seek to land a compromise on Wednesday as some nations seek to put ambitious climate action and financial obligations on the summit agenda — flashpoints that have stalled past negotiations. Attendees sit under a globe in a lobby at the side events pavilions at the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Tuesday, Nov….
The world has changed dramatically in the decade since leaders celebrated a historic climate agreement in Paris a decade ago, but not quite in ways they expected or wanted. Earth’s warming climate has gotten nastier faster than society has been able to wean itself from burning the coal, oil and natural gas that emits carbon…
Almost exactly 10 years ago, a remarkable thing happened in a conference hall on the outskirts of Paris: After years of bitter negotiations, the leaders of nearly every country agreed to try to slow down global warming in an effort to head off its most devastating effects. The core idea was that countries would set…
Most of the world’s countries have missed a critical deadline to update their climate promises, leaving international efforts to curb global warming dangerously short of what scientists say is needed to avoid catastrophic consequences, a United Nations analysis released on Tuesday has found. Emissions from a coal-fired power plant are silhouetted against the setting sun…
China is quickly becoming the global leader in nuclear power, with nearly as many reactors under construction as the rest of the world combined. While its dominance of solar panels and electric vehicles is well known, China is also building nuclear plants at an extraordinary pace. By 2030, China’s nuclear capacity is set to surpass…
Updated on: Oct 22, 2025 08:35 am IST The country is heating up at four times the rate of the rest of the northern hemisphere, and glaciers have been collapsing fast too. For the first time, mosquitoes have been found in Iceland, signalling yet another inevitable consequence of climate crisis, the Guardian has reported. Representational…
UK climate advisers warned the government for the first time on Wednesday to prepare for 2C of global warming by 2050, stressing current efforts to adapt to extreme weather are falling far short. UK Heatwave: People walk in front of the Elizabeth Tower, more commonly known as Big Ben in London, Britain.(Reuters) Britain is among…
Coral reefs around the globe have for years suffered publicly in warming oceans, periodically making headlines when iconic underwater landscapes lose their colors and wither during repeated mass bleaching events caused by climate change. Now, reefs are the first environmental system on Earth to pass a climate “tipping point,” according to a new report by…
China’s emissions-cutting pledge is poised to take center stage at a United Nations climate meeting Wednesday, after US President Donald Trump unleashed a blistering — if predictable — broadside against the science surrounding planet-warming fossil fuels. Some 118 nations will outline plans to curb global warming, which is driving disasters worldwide — from catastrophic floods…