Swiss glaciers lost a fifth of their mass in five years, a study said, after Switzerland recorded its hottest summer since measurements began in 1864. The finding follows warnings from the Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland network, GLAMOS, which publishes Swi…
Kuala Lumpur topped a global pollution ranking on Wednesday and Singapore ranked third as haze from wildfires in Indonesia pushed air quality into unhealthy levels. Swiss monitor IQAir recorded an Air Quality Index reading of 166 for Malaysia's capital early…
An exceptionally strong El Nino cycle may force leading chefs to rethink menus as droughts, floods and heatwaves disrupt global food systems, according to chefs gathered at the Apapaxoa gastronomic festival on Mexico's Caribbean coast. United Nations experts…
Guatemala has released hundreds of captive-bred baby tropical gars into a freshwater canal in the country's south, in a conservation effort for a vulnerable fish sometimes called a “fossil fish.” The fry were raised in tanks by the Marine Conservation Center…
A bacterial infection is suspected in the deaths of hundreds of southern right whale calves off Argentina’s Patagonia region, where dozens more dead calves washed up this week in southern Chubut province. Mariano Coscarella, a researcher at the Marine Mammals…
Rio de Janeiro has recorded its wettest September since local measurements began in 1997, the city government said, as persistent rain affects Brazil's southeast during a powerful El Nino. The city government's Alerta Rio system recorded the highest volume of…
Chile's Atacama Desert has bloomed after El Nino rains, covering parts of one of the world's driest regions with flowers and drawing tourists to the northern desert. Cesar Pizarro, head of Atacama biodiversity for Chile's forestry body CONAF, said seasonal ra…
The head of Iceland's last active whaling company said Tuesday that he would sue the government if it introduces a whaling ban. Kristjan Loftsson, chief executive of Hvalur, said the company would comply if a ban were enacted but would take legal action again…
Cuba's National Zoo is relying on staff efforts and private food donations to keep nearly 1,000 animals fed as fuel shortages, blackouts and transport disruption strain the reserve outside Havana. The 345-hectare park, about 20 kilometers from central Havana,…
The strengthening El Nino weather pattern has tied for the most intense on record on a widely used metric, climatologist Zeke Hausfather said Monday. Hausfather, a Berkeley Earth scientist and co-author of UN climate change reports, said the sea surface tempe…
California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency on Monday as the state prepares for an El Nino pattern expected to bring damaging storms to the US west coast. Forecasters say the coming months could bring powerful storms and higher-than-usual t…
Britain's foreign minister Ed Miliband said climate change should be treated as a security issue for prime ministers, foreign ministers and generals, not only as a cause for environmental campaigners. Speaking at the opening ceremony of Climate Week NYC as wo…
A Swedish activist group suing the state over alleged climate inaction expects the case to go to trial in the second half of 2027. Lawyers for the Swedish state and the Aurora association, which includes climate activist Greta Thunberg, met on Monday for a pr…
Turkey said Monday that AI's energy use and climate footprint will be a priority when it hosts the COP31 climate summit in Antalya in November. COP31 President and Turkish Climate Minister Murat Kurum said the summit would address “growing fears over the rise…
The critically endangered black robin has won New Zealand's Bird of the Year competition after a record number of voters took part. The small native bird lives on the remote Chatham Islands, about 800 kilometres off the east coast of New Zealand's South Islan…
A Malaysian conservation team is fitting tracking collars to Bornean elephants in Sabah to help reduce conflict between the endangered animals and nearby communities. One collared elephant, nicknamed Pigtail, is among only around 1,000 Bornean elephants left…
Several thousand people marched in Geneva and Lausanne on Saturday to protest what they said was Swiss government inaction over global warming. The demonstrations were called by a coalition of more than 100 associations and political parties under the banner…
INEOS said Friday that its Greensand carbon capture and storage project has begun storing carbon dioxide under the seabed beneath an old oil platform in the North Sea. The Greensand reservoir is beneath the Nini West platform, about 200 kilometers off Denmark…
A Trump administration memorandum narrows how the US Fish and Wildlife Service applies endangered species protections, saying incidental killings of protected wildlife will no longer be treated as unlawful. The September 14 memorandum says deaths resulting fr…
The world's water cycle is becoming more erratic, swinging between too little and too much water as freshwater reserves decline, the World Meteorological Organization warned in its annual State of Global Water Resources report. The UN weather agency said 2025…
A conservation programme in Indonesia's West Kalimantan province is paying villagers for photos and recordings of wildlife, aiming to make animals worth more alive than dead. The KehatiKu project, run by environmental consultancy Borneo Futures, pays people i…
Guatemala plans to provide food aid to more than one million families affected by drought linked to El Nino, the government said. Social Development Minister Abelardo Pinto said distributions would first reach about 134,000 families. He estimated that maize,…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen promised a new EU heatwave plan on Wednesday after back-to-back summer heatwaves caused more than 30,000 excess deaths across Europe. Speaking to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, von der Leyen said Brus…
Sri Lanka’s Beach Wadiya restaurant has won a temporary court reprieve from demolition after resisting a government order to leave Colombo’s shoreline under a coastal clean-up plan. The Coast Conservation and Coastal Resource Management Department gave the se…
US President Donald Trump's administration on September 14 scrapped limits on carbon emissions from coal- and gas-fired power plants, ending a climate rule aimed at reducing pollution from the electricity sector. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator…
Belgian forestry workers are harvesting pine cones to collect seeds that authorities hope will make the country's forests more diverse and resilient as the climate changes. The annual high-altitude harvest runs from mid-August to mid-September, before the con…
Santa Monica cancelled the two-day Ocean Way Festival on Sept. 11 after coastal erosion left its planned beach site unsafe, city officials said. The festival was scheduled for later in September and was set to feature The Killers, Olivia Dean and Jack White.…
Swimming pigs on Atokos, a small private island in Greece's Ionian Sea, have become a tourist draw after images of the animals spread on Instagram and TikTok. The island lies a short distance from Ithaka. Visitors now travel there to swim near the black pigs,…
Workers at Herdade das Servas in Portugal's Alentejo region are harvesting grapes at night to avoid daytime temperatures above 40C, an adaptation the estate says has become necessary as heat and drought intensify. The 350-hectare estate, about 150 kilometres…
About 1.3 billion people worldwide experienced their hottest June-to-August period on record this year, according to an AFP analysis of meteorological data from the European Copernicus programme. The analysis found that 52 countries across all continents brok…
August effectively tied July 2023 as the hottest month ever recorded globally, the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service said Thursday, as an unusually strong…
Thailand's wildlife crime officers are tracking traffickers online and going undercover to stop the illegal sale of animals ranging from monkeys to hornbills, leopards, ivory and corals. Nawee Changpirom heads a raid unit in the Department of National Parks,…
University of Miami scientists and trained volunteer divers are planting young coral off Florida and studying which species may better withstand warming oceans. The work is part of the university's long-running Rescue a Reef programme. During a recent dive to…
The contiguous United States had its hottest summer on record, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Wednesday, with the June-to-August average temperature reaching 74.4F, or 23.6C. NOAA said the average for the Lower 48 states was 0.4F abo…
French authorities have allowed champagne houses to make this year's champagne with alcohol content of up to 15 percent after record heatwaves affected grapes, industry officials said Wednesday. The temporary allowance is described as a historic first for cha…
Mainland Spain had its hottest summer since records began in 1961, with an unprecedented 61 heatwave days across June, July and August, national weather agency AEMET said Wednesday. AEMET said the average temperature for the three months was 24.5C. That was 0…
Bhutan is using round-the-clock monitors, sensors and evacuation sirens to track the risk of floods from melting Himalayan glaciers. The warning centre in Wangdue Phodrang region began work in 2011 after a deadly 1994 glacial lake outburst flood killed 21 peo…
The European Climate Foundation said Tuesday that the European Union is failing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions linked to imported products, calling it a we…
Indonesia is working to repatriate five baby orangutans found motherless in a forest in eastern India, where authorities suspect they were trafficked, Jakarta's forestry ministry said. The young orangutans were found on September 8 by rangers patrolling in Ba…
An EU testing campaign found labelling problems in 14 of 21 fertiliser samples checked in six countries, the European Commission said. National authorities in…
Norwegian chemicals group Yara said Monday it had begun capturing part of the CO2 emitted by its ammonia and fertiliser plant in Sluiskil, the Netherlands, for underground storage in Norway. Yara said the plant will capture 800,000 tons of CO2 a year, about 0…
Vuelta a Espana organisers have shortened stage 15 from Palma del Rio to Cordoba because of forecast extreme heat, cutting the route by about 80 kilometres. O…
Tens of thousands of people marched through central Zagreb on Sept. 5 calling for the cleanup of thousands of tonnes of illegally dumped hazardous waste in Croatia's Lika region. About 35,000 tonnes of waste, including electronic and medical waste, were found…
President Donald Trump's administration moved Friday to consider dropping or reducing endangered species protections for gray wolves and Mexican wolves in the United States. An executive order aimed at helping cattle ranchers address livestock losses gave Int…
Spain equalled its September heat record on Thursday when weather agency AEMET measured 45.7C in El Granado, a municipality in Andalusia, the agency said Friday. AEMET said the reading matched the 45.7C recorded in Montoro in 2016, also in Andalusia. It was t…
The August 26 glacier and mountain collapse on the Nepal-China border followed unprecedented heat for the time of year at the collapse site, according to meteo…
Climate change is expected to feature prominently in European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's September 16 State of the European Union speech after…
Plug-in hybrids emit far more carbon dioxide in real-world driving than official approval values suggest, according to a study published Thursday by the Intern…
France had its hottest summer on record in 2026 and saw 53 days of heatwave conditions, Environment Minister Monique Barbut and the national weather service sa…
China's carbon dioxide emissions fell in the second quarter as the US-Iran war disrupted Middle East oil shipping and reduced Chinese oil use, according to ana…
Taiwan held its first extreme heat drill in New Taipei City on Thursday, but the exercise was hit by heavy rain instead of the 40C conditions officials were pr…
Indonesian conservation officials rescued a mother orangutan and her baby from wildfire smoke in Central Kalimantan on Borneo, officials said Thursday. Murian…
Kenyan wildlife officers are trapping crocodiles around Lake Baringo and moving them to a protected park as rising waters push the reptiles closer to homes. T…
The current El Nino weather episode could become the strongest recorded since monitoring began four decades ago, World Meteorological Organization chief Celest…
The current El Nino could become the strongest since comparable monitoring began four decades ago, the World Meteorological Organization said on September 3, w…
Farmers, scientists and development specialists meeting in Bhutan are promoting “conscious food systems” as a response to pressures on agriculture, including c…
Technology companies are increasing their climate commitments, but not fast enough to offset rising energy demand linked to artificial intelligence, a report s…
A rare trio of hurricanes was moving through the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, with scientists attributing the storms to waters warmed by a historically strong El…
Germany’s summer drought has hit harvests and pushed farming into what Agriculture Minister Alois Rainer called a “massive nationwide crisis”, prompting the go…
Nepal's flood disaster and Europe's wildfires should push governments to focus again on the cost of climate change, Green Climate Fund executive director Mafal…
Scientists warned Wednesday that Pacific islands face food shortages and damaged drinking water supplies as global warming overshoots the 1.5C target set by th…
A Pacific climate meeting to be held in Fiji and Tuvalu on October 5-8 has only a handful of leaders confirmed so far, but Australian Prime Minister Anthony Al…
The United Nations Environment Programme said the world will miss the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, and that countries m…
Residents of Obilic, the Kosovo town beside the country's largest coal-fired power plants, say cancer fears are widespread as pollution from lignite coal remai…
Pope Leo XIV held a special Mass for the environment on Tuesday in the gardens of the papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo near Rome, urging people to protect nature and condemning destruction caused by wars. “Let us place in silent mode the many noises…
Belgium recorded its hottest summer since observations began in 1833, the country's Royal Meteorological Institute said Tuesday. Temperatures at the official national reference station in Uccle, outside Brussels, averaged 20.3C. The institute said that was 2.…
More than 1,000 farmers with about 200 tractors demonstrated outside Denmark’s parliament on Tuesday against planned legislation regulating fertiliser use, agr…
Britain and Belgium both recorded their hottest summers on record, their weather agencies announced Tuesday, after repeated heatwaves and drought conditions in…
India had its hottest August since records began in 1901, with a mean temperature of 28.01C, the India Meteorological Department said. The department said the mean temperature was 0.67C above the long-term average for August. It said the figure broke the prev…
Japan bear attacks have killed six people since April 1, according to the environment ministry, while researchers in Nagano point to a long-running coexistence…