Vietnam, a major rice exporter, is aiming to transform its farming techniques by reducing its emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas. Rice paddies generate methane due to flooded conditions inhibiting soil oxygen, making up 8 percent of human-made methane emissions globally. The
Britons using less gas at home last year has led to a drop in greenhouse gas emissions, official figures have revealed. The gases which cause global warming fell by 5.4% in 2023, the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) said.
European Union member countries have watered down a proposal by the bloc’s executive arm aimed at lowering vehicle emissions. The European Commission had proposed last year updated pollution standards for new combustion engine vehicles that are expected to remain on European roads
The world’s largest carbon emitter, China, faces a monumental task in meeting its climate emission targets. President Xi Jinping has committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2060. The scale of this challenge is staggering, with China currently releasing over ten thousand megatonnes
A political pundit has slammed the UK’s focus on climate change by sharing a graph which claims China’s carbon emissions total more than all other countries combined. James Melville, a political commentator and a regular contributer to GB News, shared the live
Wildfires reached the outskirts of Athens on Thursday as strong gusts of wind caused flare-ups around Greece, disrupting highway traffic and rail services. The fires have raged across parts of the country during three successive Mediterranean heat waves over two weeks, leaving
The head of this year’s United Nations’ climate talks called Thursday for governments and businesses to tackle global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions in all regions and sectors if they want to stop the planet from passing a key temperature limit
The head of the United Nations called Monday for maritime nations to agree on a course for the shipping industry to reduce its climate-harming emissions to net zero by the middle of the century at the latest. The appeal by U.N. Secretary-General
Dutch government plans to drastically cut emissions of nitrogen pollution cleared a key hurdle Tuesday when the European Union’s executive arm gave the green light to farm buyout schemes worth nearly $1.65 billion. The plans to reduce nitrogen deposits — mainly by
Polish coal miners angered by a European Union directive aiming to reduce methane emissions protested noisily Friday before the EU office in Warsaw saying it will deprive them of their jobs. Some 300 miners chanted “Thieves” and used smoke flares and sirens