LONDON (Reuters) - Global green bond issuance has surpassed the $100 billion mark already this year, the first time the milestone has been reached in the first half of this year, the Climate Bonds Initiative said on Tuesday. Green bonds…

FILE PHOTO: The BMW logo is seen on a car in Nice, France, April 8, 2019. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard/File PhotoFRANKFURT (Reuters) - BMW’s new hybrid cars will automatically switch off their combustion engines in heavily polluted inner city areas and use…

(Reuters) - An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 struck in the sea off eastern Russia on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter of the quake was 152 km (94 miles) northwest of Nikol’skoye, Komandorskiye Ostrova, at a…

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Monsoon rains have covered most parts of cane, cotton, and soybean fields in western India and some parts of rice-sowing areas in central and northern India, the country’s weather office said on Tuesday. FILE PHOTO: A…

LONDON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. furniture company RC Willey Home Furnishings is so concerned that new global clean air rules will cause transport disruption that it brought forward the shipment of arm chairs and sofas from China by two months.…

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is expected to experience an average-to-warmer weather between July and September, the country’s official forecaster said on Tuesday. Eastern Japan, including its most densely populated city of Tokyo, has a 40% chance of higher-than-average temperatures during…