NEWS - International
April 2021
China's environmental data: The world's biggest polluter in numbers
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We need a green planet, but the world is on red alert: UN secretary-general Antonio Guterre
Japan raises greenhouse emissions cut target to 46% by 2030
Brazil cuts environment spending one day after US climate summit pledge
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March 2021
Singapore won’t allow new diesel cars and cabs from 2025
UK's expired cruise ships being scrapped in India: Report
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January 2021
U.S. Renewable Energy Consumption Surpasses Coal For 1st Time In Over 130 Years
December 2020
New Zealand's Ardern set to declare climate emergency
Eat Just to sell lab-grown meat in Singapore after gaining ‘world first’ regulatory approval
Coal mine accident in China's Chongqing leaves 23 trapped: Xinhua
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Great Barrier Reef's status now 'critical'
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Global emissions hit new high, on track for increase of 3 degrees Celsius-UN
Degrowth means we live a simpler life, so that others can simply live: Giorgos Kallis
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Biden introduces environment team to tackle 'existential threat'
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November 2020
Norway’s Supreme Court Hears Rights Challenge to Arctic Oil Drilling
Trump rolled backmore than 125 environmental safeguards. Here’s how.
Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $120 million as damages in New York baby powder case
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October 2020
Prince William Announces New Prize Aimed at ‘Repairing’ the Planet
European Parliament confirms 2030 climate target to cut emissions
China, Russia and India spewing stuff into air: Trump
Dueling climate analyses offer a preview of political tensions to come in US
Final presidential debate: Trump accuses China, India and Russia of not taking care of their 'filthy air'
Japan PM Suga sets 2050 deadline for carbon neutrality
Septmber 2020
Brazil Fires Burn World's Largest Tropical Wetlands at 'Unprecedented' Scale
California wildfires growing bigger, moving faster than ever
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Smoke from historic US wildfires seen from Europe
Spider-like venom found in Australian stinging trees -- and the pain can last for weeks
Bob Hendrikx designs "living coffin" from mushroom mycelium
Ellen DeGeneres starts ‘a new chapter’ while apologising for toxic work environment
How California became ground zero for climate disasters
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Climate crusader Greta Thunberg tipped to win Nobel Peace Prize
Invention captures harmful car tyre dust, wins UK award
August 2020
New global temperature record may have been set in California's Death Valley
California slammed by wildfires, heat, unhealthy smoky air
July 2020
Trump weakens environmental law to speed up infrastructure projects
Black waters: Oil spills pollute northeast Syria creeks
India, China and Russia don’t take care of their air pollution, says Trump
France to ban heated terraces in anti-pollution drive
May 2020
US: Democrats Decry ‘pandemic Of Pollution’ Under Donald Trump’s EPA ... Read more
April 2020
U.S. to Announce Rollback of Auto Pollution Rules, a Key Effort to Fight Climate Change ... Read more
World’s dirtiest air gets cleaner after India’s lockdown ... Read more
Sir John Houghton, Climate Scientist and Founding IPCC Editor, Dies at 88 ... Read more
California suspends 10-cent grocery bag charge amid virus ... Read more
Earth Day 2020 could mark the year we stop taking the planet for granted ... Read more
March 2020
German Government Postpones Hydrogen Startegy,Coal Exit Hearing ... Read more
February 2020
Bamako Convention: Time for Africa to move from decisions to action on hazardous waste ... Read more
January 2020
San Francisco cafes are banishing disposable coffee cups ... Read more
Japan could release Fukushima radioactive water into environment ... Read more
Quantum Leap: How to get rid of carbon emissions ... Read more
Renewable Energy: Brazil to assist in India’s alternative fuel Ethanol programme ... Read more
Environment Ministry clears 10 coal mining projects ... Read more
SC orders govt to add re-greening clause in mining leases ... Read more
Centre notifies new wetland conservation rules ... Read more
2019 second hottest year on record: EU ... Read more
The blackest city in the US is facing an environmental justice nightmare ... Read more
Australia Turns From Defense to Offense in Wildfire Battle ... Read more
Australia bushfires: How indigenous fire-prevention techniques are getting popular ... Read more
Australia Bushfires Contribute to Steep Spike in Global CO2 Levels: UK Met Office ... Read more
Trump urges Davos to reject environmental ‘prophets of doom ... Read more
Australia firefighters save world’s only rare ‘dinosaur trees’ ... Read more
December 2019
Cars powered by hydrogen cells: Japanese research is key input in Govt’s SC reply ... Read more
These fancy cocktails are garbage, literally ... Read more
Paris climate deal: world not on track to meet goal amid continuous emissions ... Read more
Sydney choked by hazardous haze from Australia bush fires ... Read more
Govt set to develop organic farming corridor along Ganga to arrest pollution ... Read more
Four years into Namami Gange, high volume of sewage still flows into river ... Read more
Japan could release Fukushima radioactive water into the environment ... Read more
Air pollution 'making A and E crisis worse ... Read more
November 2019
'Ardern says New Zealand on 'right side of history' as MPs pass zero-carbon bill ' ... Read more
Donald Trump raises stink, claiming garbage from India reaches Los Angeles ... Read more
Greta Thunberg set to sail across Atlantic for second time on carbon-free racing yacht ... Read more
In China, questions raised over efficacy of smog towers ... Read more