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China's green-tech manufacturing powerhouse
China has extended its manufacturing domination to clean energy industries in recent years, alongside a global push for climate ch...
Tokyo crowds revel as cherry blossoms reach full b...
Tourists and residents packed Tokyo's top cherry blossom spots on Thursday to enjoy the full bloom that has arrived in the Japanes...
Despite gains in Brazil, forest destruction still...
The world lost 10 football fields of old-growth tropical forest every minute in 2023 and despite uplifting progress in the Amazon,...
EU probes Chinese-owned solar panel firms over sub...
The European Union on Wednesday announced investigations targeting two Chinese-owned solar panel manufacturers suspected of receiv...
From polar bears to groundwater, nature is riddled...
They didn't exist a century ago but today PFAS "forever chemicals" contaminate the environment from groundwater to Antarctic snow...
Tesla reports drop in auto sales, while Toyota see...
Tesla reported sharply lower first-quarter auto sales on Tuesday amid an underwhelming demand outlook for electric vehicles, while...
Canada's Trudeau on back foot over carbon tax
Polluters should pay up, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insists. But pressure is mounting to scrap his signature climate p...
In Canada's Quebec, residents miffed over mining b...
Canada's Quebec province is rich with minerals needed for everything from electric cars to cell phones, but residents living atop...
UK's biggest water supplier plunges into deeper fi...
Debt-plagued Thames Water has failed to raise a major cash injection from shareholders, it revealed Thursday, blaming industry reg...
What do scientists hope to learn from total solar...
When a rare total solar eclipse sweeps across North America on April 8, scientists will be able to gather invaluable data on every...
Financial crisis at UK's biggest water supplier wo...
Debt-plagued Thames Water revealed Thursday that it failed to raise a major cash injection from shareholders, blaming industry reg...
New Zealand's Maori King calls for whales to be gi...
The King of New Zealand's Indigenous Maori people made an impassioned call Thursday for whales to be granted the same legal rights...
Saudi Aramco CEO calls energy transition strategy...
Pointing to the still paltry share of renewable energy in global supply, the head of Saudi Aramco described the current energy tra...
Sweden aims to boost plastic recycling with giant...
Discarded crisp bags, ketchup bottles and Tupperware containers speed along conveyer belts at a massive high-tech sorting plant du...
Israel's war budget leaves top scientists in limbo
Israeli scientist Ellen Graber has spent years researching ways to save chocolate crops from climate change. But with the governme...
Australia battles to save last 11 wild 'earless dr...
Australia's grassland earless dragon is no bigger than a pinkie when it emerges from its shell, but the little lizard faces an eno...
Plastic 'interceptor' tackles trash in Bangkok riv...
Black flies exploded into the air as plastic waste fell from bamboo conveyor belts into skips on a solar-powered barge attempting...
Planting trees in wrong places heats the planet: s...
Planting trees in the wrong places can actually contribute to global warming, scientists said on Tuesday, but a new map identifies...
Indonesia hunts clues as study suggests Javan tige...
Indonesia is hunting for more clues that the extinct Javan tiger may still exist in the wild, a government official said Tuesday,...
Sixteen bear cubs rescued from home in Laos
Sixteen undernourished Asiatic black bear cubs have been found in a home in Laos capital Vientiane by a conservation charity, the...
Rights court condemns Peru over one of world's mos...
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights said Friday that Peru had violated residents' "right to live in a healthy environment" in...
'Good boy!' Dogs do understand us, says new study
Whether dogs truly understand the words we say -- as opposed to things like tone and context clues -- is a question that has long...
UN warns against thirsty tech to solve water crisi...
The world needs to better manage its freshwater resources but thirsty new technologies touted as solutions could lead to "serious...
Global sea level jumped due to El Nino and climate...
Global average sea level rose by about 0.3 inches (0.76 centimeters) from 2022 to 2023 -- nearly four times the increase of the pr...
Climate change hits Washington's beloved cherry bl...
It is one of the prettier fixtures of spring in Washington: thousands of cherry trees bloom amid the city's stately monuments in a...
Climate urgency takes back seat in Senegal electio...
Surrounded by lush mangrove forests, Julien Arfang Diatta shows the flooded road leading to his village on Senegal's tiny island o...
Top French court studies fate of 'Europe's largest...
France's top administrative court is to decide if a three-tonne hippopotamus called Jumbo should be freed after decades working as...
Biden admin unveils strict auto standards to speed...
President Joe Biden's administration announced Wednesday revised pollution standards for cars and trucks meant to accelerate the U...
Vietnam farmers struggle for fresh water as drough...
Every day, farmer Nguyen Hoai Thuong prays in vain for rain to fall on the cracked dry earth of her garden in Vietnam's Mekong Del...
European plastics industry 'in trouble' as market...
Europe's share of global plastics production has fallen while China's output now accounts for a third, an industry report showed T...
Climate activists disrupt Rome marathon
will Three activists from climate movement Last Generation briefly interrupted the Rome marathon on Sunday before police arrested...
In Chile, a lawyer and his dog 'plog' to raise rec...
It's still dark out, but Chilean lawyer Gonzalo Chiang and his dog Sam are already out jogging and collecting rubbish in Santiago'...