environment

India's capital was choked in a shroud of thick, toxic smog on Thursday (Nov 4) as millions gathered with family and friends to celebrate the Hindu festival of Diwali. New Delhi is ranked as one of the most polluted cities globally, with…

Indonesia has passed a much-anticipated regulation that sets a price on carbon emissions and creates a mechanism to trade carbon, as the world's eighth largest greenhouse gas emitter steps up efforts to achieve its climate goals.…

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, fresh from a resounding general election victory on Sunday, scooted off to Glasgow, where he spent just eight hours before he returned to Tokyo on Wednesday (Nov 3). The whirlwind trip to…

Mr Singh said that the 2070 net zero target is both a "risk and an opportunity" for India with much depending on how green technologies evolve in developed countries. If advanced economies are able to invest and demonstrate that transitions…

Yahoo said it had stopped allowing its services to be accessible from mainland China "in recognition of the increasingly challenging business and legal environment", the second Western tech brand to quit the country in recent weeks. The…

Brazil said it was raising its climate commitments on Monday (Nov 1) at the start of the COP26 summit , marking a change of tone after more than two years of soaring deforestation under President Jair Bolsonaro. Speaking by live video…

India’s economy will become carbon neutral by the year 2070, the country’s prime minster announced Monday (Nov 1) at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. “By 2070, India will achieve the target of net-zero emissions,” Narendra Modi told…

Drought stalks the parched fields around the remote Afghan district of Bala Murghab, where climate change is proving a deadlier foe than the country's recent conflicts. As the world watched the Taliban wage a stunning…

Sri Lanka has barred a Chinese ship carrying desperately needed organic fertiliser that experts have found to be tainted with harmful bacteria, officials said on Sunday (Oct 24). The action comes as Sri Lanka battles food shortages…

China is targeting an ambitious clean energy goal of reducing fossil fuel use to under 20 per cent by 2060, according to an official plan published by state media on Sunday (Oct 24). The document follows a pledge by President Xi Jinping…