Climate & Environment

Canadian wildfires
Northern Quebec’s largest town was being evacuated on Tuesday as firefighters worked to beat back threats from out-of-control blazes in remote communities in the northern ..

The weather in South Asia is becoming intolerable
Just weeks ago, people faced extreme heat – Intense heat in northern parts of Bangladesh has reduced tea yield and farmers are concerned that with ..

Paris plastics industry negotiations
One approach is to reduce and ban specific high-risk plastics, identified through research, which lasts for far longer in the environment than their initial use ..

Philippines’s oil tanker spill
The MT Princess Empress was carrying 800,000 liters of industrial fuel oil when it sank on February 28th off the central island of Mindoro, south ..

WMO report
On Monday, the WMO reports the rising costs of weather-related events, reporting that 2 million people (deaths) and $4.3t have been lost since 1970 due ..

Italy floods
Local mayors warned that some remote villages were still completely cut off because landslides had made roads impassable and phone service remained severed.

A heat wave has across much of Asia
The Met department in Thailand has said searing heat continues in the northern parts of the country with storms most likely in central, eastern, and ..

U.S. rivers
Among the most endangered and considered the most polluted in the U.S. is the 1579km / 981-mile Ohio River.

US storms
The town of Wynne in northeastern Arkansas was also devastated, and officials reported two dead there, along with destroyed homes and people trapped in the ..

UN 2023 Water Conference
Water use has been increasing globally by roughly 1% per year over the last 40 years and is expected to grow at a similar rate ..