India aims to provide clean water to all rural houses by 2024
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that piped water will reach all homes in the countryside by 2024, setting a tough target at a…
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Exclusive: U.N. chief calls on EU to raise 2030 climate goal to 55%
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on the European Union to aim for a 55% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, far more than the bloc’s…
Plastic pollution: Bangor divers cleaning up the seabed
From BBC You might have heard of people doing a traditional beach clean up, but what about all the rubbish underwater? A group of divers from voluntary organisation Seasearch have…
Largest world stock of animal-killing virus destroyed by UK lab
From BBC Scientists have destroyed the UK’s laboratory stocks of a virus that once caused devastating cattle losses. These stocks accounted for most of the world’s lab samples of rinderpest,…
Pope warns oil bosses of climate threat
From BBC The Pope has told oil company bosses that climate change threatens the future of the “human family”. The oil executives had been invited to the Vatican in Rome…
Pope backs carbon pricing to stem global warming and appeals to deniers
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Friday that carbon pricing is “essential” to stem global warming - his clearest statement yet in support of penalizing polluters - and…
Carbon pricing “essential” to stem global warming, pope tells energy leaders
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis leaves the weekly general audience at the Vatican, June 12, 2019. REUTERS/Remo Casilli/File PhotoVATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Friday that carbon pricing, used…
Tech tool aims to predict global water conflicts before they happen
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Artificial intelligence can predict where conflicts over scarce water will break out up to a year in advance and allow action to prevent them, researchers…
'The Dead Don't Die' stars on the environment
(Reuters) - Flesh-eating zombies terrorize a small town in Jim Jarmusch’s “The Dead Don’t Die”, a comedy horror in which polar fracking sets off strange reactions and raises the dead.…
Bayer to invest $5.6 billion in weedkiller research to help reputation
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany’s Bayer sought to repair its reputation on Friday after damage caused by U.S. litigation over claims its glyphosate pesticide causes cancer, saying it would invest 5…