FILE PHOTO: Japan's Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi attends a news conference at Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's official residence in Tokyo, Japan September 11, 2019. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File PhotoTOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese environment minister Shinjiro Koizumi said on Tuesday it has agreed…

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Norway’s Equinor ASA has abandoned plans to explore for oil in the deep waters off Australia’s south coast, saying it was not “commercially competitive”, following in peers’ footsteps in a move hailed as a big win by…

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Climate change could become a “catastrophic” threat to global security, as people lose their livelihoods, fall ill and battle over scarce water and food, a host of U.S. security, military and intelligence experts warned…

LONDON (Reuters) - Europe’s top companies need to more than double their current level of spending on low-carbon projects to meet the European Commission’s flagship goal of ‘climate neutrality’ by 2050, according to a report released on Tuesday. FILE PHOTO:…

WINNIPEG, Manitoba/OTTAWA (Reuters) - Teck Resources Ltd’s surprise decision to cancel a planned C$20.6 billion ($15.6 billion) oil sands mine in northern Alberta, citing uncertainty about Canada’s climate policy, underscores a global struggle to balance energy growth with environmental concerns.…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have spotted in rocks from northern China what may be the oldest fossils of a green plant ever found, tiny seaweed that carpeted areas of the seafloor roughly a billion years ago and were part of…

FILE PHOTO: A man walks into the JP Morgan at Canary Wharf in London May 11, 2012. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez/File PhotoNEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) executives plan to announce new climate-change initiatives on Tuesday, including restrictions on…

PARIS (Reuters) - France needs to retain pesticides to combat new plant diseases spread by international trade and climate change even as it tries to phase out some crop chemicals like glyphosate, the country’s health and safety agency said. FILE…