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…
Indonesia's wildfire haze has directly exposed more than five million people across Borneo and Sumatra to health risks, deputy health minister Dante Saksono Ha…
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…