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The crash site where Chinese architect Kongjian Yu died with three others

Leading figure in sustainable planning

Famed 'sponge cities' Chinese architect dead in Brazil plane crash

The area likely holds substantial deposits of chromite, nickel, copper and platinum group metals -- minerals needed for products like cell phones and computers

Potential riches

Canada's Indigenous wary of mining push in rich 'Ring of Fire'

Brown bears in Alaska's Katmai National Park are - unwittingly - competing to be crowned chubbiest creature in the annual Fat Bear Week contest

Ahead of hibernation

Big news: Annual eating contest roars to life in Fat Bear Week

China's President Xi Jinping speaks remotely during the 'Climate Summit 2025' on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly

7–10% cut by 2035

In first, China unveils specific emissions targets

Tourism has long been the mainstay of the economy of St. Kitts and Nevis, led by Prime Minister Terrance Drew

St. Kitts and Nevis

Con job? Climate change is my job, says island nation leader

Electric cars by Chinese automataker BYD await export to South America

Underpromise, overdeliver

China unveils steady but restrained climate goals

Coral reefs are under pressure from multiple presures including global warming, pollution and ocean acidification

Dangerous gambling

Planetary health check warns risk of 'destabilising' Earth systems

Flood victims prepare to spend a second night sheltering in a local church after a barrier lake burst due to torrential rain from Super Typhoon Ragasa

Super Typhoon Ragasa

Taiwan lake flood victims spend second night in shelters

Residents clear mud from their property after the lake barrier burst

Amid super typhoon

14 killed in Taiwan after barrier lake bursts

Residents in southern China's Yangjiang are grappling with damaged property and power outages in the immediate aftermath of Typhoon Ragasa, hours after the destructive storm made landfall near the city

Densely populated province

'Everything broken': Chinese residents in typhoon path assess damage

The wind farm will help France move towards its renewable energy targets

TotalEnergies and RWE

French-German duo wins mega offshore wind energy project

NASA's IMAP probe will use its instruments to study the Sun's high-energy particles and the protective magnetic bubble surrounding our solar system

Kennedy Space Center

NASA launches mission to study space weather

The German government wants to build more gas power plants

Protection without ideology

Germany's Merz rejects claims he is slowing green shift

Tajikistan produces 25% of the world's antimony, a rare mineral used in strategic industries

Race for rare minerals brings boom to Tajikistan's mines

Waves crash into the Heng Fa Chuen residential district as Super Typhoon Ragasa approaches near Hong Kong

Destructive force

Schools shut, flights axed as Typhoon Ragasa nears Hong Kong, south China

US President Donald Trump delivers remarks to the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York City on September 23, 2025

Hour-long speech

'Greatest con job ever': Trump trashes climate science at UN

Artemis 2 is now scheduled to orbit the moon in April 2026

NASA says on track to send astronauts around the Moon in 2026

Solar panels in eastern China's Shandong province are part of the country's climate resilience planning

New emissions-cutting plan

China may strengthen climate role amid US fossil fuel push

Water shortages paired with abnormally high temperatures made for a hellish summer in Turkey

Rainfall dropped 27%

Turkey facing worst drought in over 50 years

A palm oil plantation next to a peat forest in Indonesia

Set to take effect at the end this year

EU proposes new delay to anti-deforestation rules

A herd of wild buffaloes roam a game reserve in the Chobe district of northern Botswana in September 2018

Nearly 100 buffaloes die in Namibia stampede

The Singapore-registered container ship MV X-Press Pearl carrying hundreds of containers of chemicals and plastics, as its towed away from the coast of Colombo in June 2021

Paying would 'set a dangerous precedent'

Singapore firm rejects paying $1bn Sri Lankan pollution damages

Trump was joined for the announcment by his health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a noted vaccine skeptic

Urging major changes

Trump ties autism risk to Tylenol as scientists urge caution

The North Atlantic right whale is among the species that are at-risk of extinction in Canada according to a new report from the World Wildlife Fund

Hundreds of species face extinction

Canada wildlife decline 'most severe' in decades: WWF

The United States, the world's largest oil producer, has publicly called for the International Energy Agency (IEA) to reform.

Pressure from Trump administration

IEA feels the heat as Washington pushes pro-oil agenda

The temperature soared over 41C in Rome during summer last year, when heat is estimated to have killed over 60,000 people across Europe

Dangerous heatwaves

Over 60,000 Europeans died from heat during 2024 summer: study

The burning of massive amounts of coal, oil and gas is the main driver of human-caused climate change.

Climate goals and fossil fuel plans don't add up, experts say

Protesters rallied in Manila against misused floof relief funds Sunday as a new super typhoon bears down on the country

265 km/h wind gusts

Evacuees in Philipines, Taiwan take shelter as super typhoon nears

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