Thailand’s rice bowl threatened by rise of regional rivals In 2022, Thailand’s Hom Mali rice lost its title of the World’s Best Rice to Cambodia’s Phka Rumduol grain, marking an embarrassing defeat for the crop often touted as the pride ...
Harold Davis, who’s 29 years old, bought this truck and snowplow in the fall. Opportunities to use his new plow have been few and far between. Mara Hoplamazian/New Hampshire Public Radio hide caption toggle caption Mara Hoplamazian/New Hampshire Public ...
The recordings in this segment came from the Babanki Living Dictionary and the Nalik Living Dictionary courtesy of the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages.
Energy bills are denting consumer confidence but they could ease faster than feared (PA) Consumer confidence has fallen again to a near-historic low as household budgets are squeezed, even as a new analysis suggests energy bills will fall faster ...
Listen to this episode of The Times: The main way the American West harvests the Colorado River for its water use is by dams that create reservoirs, which are quickly drying up because of climate change. Can knocking some ...
DAVOS, Switzerland – John Kerry on Thursday offered a full-throated defence of the decision to hold this year’s United Nations climate talks in the United Arab Emirates, one of the world’s largest oil producers, suggesting the Gulf state was ...
SYDNEY – Australia could be heading for a period of drought and intense bush fires towards the end of the year as the nation grapples with climate extremes that are costing the economy billions of dollars. Parts of Australia ...
Sun Cable's administrators say they hope to have the company behind a $30 billion project to export Australian solar power to Singapore sold or recapitalised within three months. A committee of creditors was held on Friday, after the company ...
A sharp spike in Greenland temperatures since 1995 showed the giant northern island 2.7 degrees hotter than its 20th century average, the warmest in more than 1,000 years, according to new ice core data. Until now Greenland ice cores ...
Ever considered the carbon footprint of manufacturing your favourite shirt? The average cotton shirt produces 2.1 kilograms of carbon dioxide – but a polyester shirt produces over twice as much (5.5 kilograms). It might come as no surprise that the ...
The world is close to “tipping point” in the mass deployment of green technologies to decarbonise the power generation and road transport sectors, which together account for 38 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, a study suggests. But global ...
You might think evolution is glacially slow. At a species level, that’s true. But evolution happens every time organisms produce offspring. The everyday mixing of genes – combined with mutations – throws up new generations upon which “selection pressure” will act. This ...
BERLIN — Researchers say efforts to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere aren’t being scaled up fast enough and can’t be relied on to meet crucial climate goals. A report published Thursday by scientists in Europe and the United States found ...
Canadian researchers analyzed coffee’s “contribution to climate change” in a piece published in early January and suggested people moderate their consumption of the popular drink as a part of the solution. Researchers Luciano Rodrigues Viana, Charles Marty, Jean-François Boucher and Pierre-Luc Dessureault ...
The international FEV conference “Zero CO₂ Mobility” was held at the end of 2022 and once again attracted top-class speakers. Participants were convinced that the 1.5-degree target of the Paris climate protection agreement in the transport sector can no longer be achieved with the measures introduced to date
The UAE, one of the world’s top oil producers, will host the U.N.-led climate summit from Nov. 30 to Dec. 12, 2023. Adnoc CEO Sultan al-Jaber has spoken about the need for climate action, saying that the UAE has ...
At Davos, Thunberg visit spotlights lack of climate action Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg on Thursday slammed corporate bigwigs meeting in Davos, Switzerland for “prioritizing greed and short term economic profits” over people affected by the climate crisis DAVOS, Switzerland ...
It is “absurd” that people could take seriously the ideas on climate change put forward by the profit-prioritising business elite gathered at Davos, Greta Thunberg said on Thursday. The Swedish climate activist said the annual conclave in the Swiss ...
Study: Big gap in carbon removal effort key to climate goals Researchers say efforts to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere aren’t being scaled up fast enough and can’t be relied on to meet crucial climate goals BERLIN — Researchers ...
As California emerges from a two-week bout of deadly atmospheric rivers, a number of climate researchers say the recent storms appear to be typical of the intense, periodic rains the state has experienced throughout its history and not the ...
To the editor: Your article on the accuracy of Exxon Mobil Corp.’s own global warming research makes a brief mention of how the language of climate denial has shifted toward delay. Not only did Exxon know what it was ...
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg on Thursday accused the political and business elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, of prioritizing self-interest and short-term profits. Thunberg said it was “absurd” that the world seems to be listening ...
[The stream is slated to start at 5:15 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] Moderated by CNBC’s Steve Sedgwick, the panel at Davos, Switzerland, will debate how the ...
Marcia Straub/Getty Images It’s 2074 and a suicide bomber has killed the President of the United States. Months later Marines open fire on protesters killing dozens. The Second American Civil War has just begun and once again the North ...
Sibley Street, along with other residential roads were closed due to flooding from recent rain storms resulting in high water levels in Willow Creek, in Folsom, California. Kenneth James/California Department of Water Resources hide caption toggle caption Kenneth James/California ...
If Australia is to decarbonise our energy system by 2050, we need to start the transition to electric vehicles very soon. Cars sold in the 2030s will mostly still be on the road in 2050, so we have to make ...
Soaring electricity prices have made 15% of Aussies think about installing solar panels, a recent survey found. Another 6% were already weighing up the move, on top of the 28% who had panels. With costs falling, the average system size ...
Is slow-paced, instrumental music not helping you get to sleep? Scientists say you should try your favourite energetic song instead. Early research suggests listening to preferred music – even if it is loud, energetic, and has vocals – may ...
Bank of America Chief Executive Brian Moynihan said Wednesday that current efforts to produce a set of official global standards on ESG issues were vital to “align capitalism with what society wants from it.” Asked by CNBC's Karen Tso ...
The research project looks at the entire product life cycle, from the purchase of materials to repair and recyclability
“We very much hope to be able to find the pathway to a breakthrough that could make a huge difference,” Kerry told CNBC’s Tania Bryer at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The U.S. and China formally resumed ...
A new report by an advocacy group says some of Canada’s major pension funds have made significant improvements in responding to the climate crisis, but overall are still falling short. The report by Shift Action for Pension Wealth and Planet ...
You can’t say the 2022 climate data coming out is surprising. But it sure is alarming. U.S. federal agencies last week reported that 2022 was either the fifth or sixth hottest year on record, depending on the accounting method ...
“Big Oil peddled the big lie,” Guterres said during a special address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. His comments come shortly after research showed how Exxon Mobil accurately forecast global heating as long ago as the ...
The installation of solar farms in China hit another record in 2022, while the amount of new fossil fuel-powered capacity fell for a second consecutive year as the nation continued to reduce its reliance on coal to generate electricity. ...
DAVOS – Alongside international concern over global warming, climate litigation is also flaring up around the world as the vulnerable move to secure their future. This was the view taken on Tuesday by a panel on climate change litigation ...
After three soggy years of La Niña in a row, Australia has endured record-breaking floods, the latest of which has inundated the Kimberley in Western Australia and across north and central Queensland. While the rains may have initially been a ...
LONDON – Singapore state-owned investment company Temasek Holdings has led the latest funding round for climate tech firm Living Carbon, which aims to increase the carbon-absorbing ability of trees, the start-up’s chief executive told Reuters. The biotech’s US$21 million ...
Fed chair Jerome Powell said the Fed should resist addressing social issues, yet it mandates that banks “manage the financial risks of climate change.” Getty Images/ Alex Wong Filegate: Did a Dem Fink on Biden? “CBS never identified the ...
It has been 20 years to the day since bushfires burst out of the Brindabella Ranges and into the suburbs of our nation’s bush capital. Four lives were lost, many people were injured and more than 500 homes were destroyed. ...