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ENVIRONMENT

Climate change

Climate change
Energy
Sustainability
Wildlife
Earth science
Mosquitoes have been discovered in Iceland in a first for the island nation, which has long been one of the world's mosquito-free places.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Mosquitoes discovered in Iceland for first time
Along with Antarctica, Iceland has long been one of the few places on earth without a mosquito population.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change / OUR PLANET
Japan’s youth are apathetic toward the climate crisis. Could anime change that?
“Future Kid Takara,” a new series set to air on NHK Educational TV, aims to empower children and encourage them to take action against climate change.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Climate change and population growth threaten to spark malaria resurgence
Insufficient funding for increasingly costly prevention programs risk eroding efforts made against the mosquito-borne illness, campaigners say.
The RRS Sir David Attenborough, moored in Harwich, eastern England, on Oct. 6 ahead of the ship's departure to undertake research in the Antarctic later in the month as part of British Antarctic Survey
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Oct 13, 2025
U.K. spearheads polar climate change research as U.S. draws back
By Joe JACKSON
Britain's RRS Sir David Attenborough will aid research on everything from "hunting underwater tsunamis" to tracking glacier melt and whale populations.
U.S. President Donald Trump has dismissed climate change as "the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world" and his administration has reportedly moved to quash debate on the issue.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Oct 8, 2025
Trump calls climate change a con; science braces for more
By David Sherfinski
The Department of Energy is reportedly telling staff to avoid using language that runs counter to the president's views on climate science.
A drone view shows the Turtmann glacier on a warm summer day, amid climate change, in Turtmann, Switzerland, on Sept. 3.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Oct 2, 2025
Swiss glaciers hit by light snowfall and heat wave, scientists say
By Cecile Mantovani and Denis Balibouse
Swiss glaciers below 3,000 meters above sea level suffered in particular this year.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses members of the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday. At a climate summit hosted by Guterres on Wednesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping said his country would cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 7%-10% from its peak by 2035.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Sep 25, 2025
Beijing takes the lead with new climate plans amid Washington’s denial
By Valerie Volcovici and Yukun Zhang
China's reduction target marked the first time the world's biggest emitter pledged a cut in emissions, rather than just limiting their growth.
In an hourlong speech before the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump attacked his predecessor, his European allies and renewable energy.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Sep 24, 2025
In bid to upend global energy policy, Trump denies climate change in U.N. speech
By Brian Kahn
The U.S. president made a series of misleading claims in a rambling speech that went on for nearly an hour.
A flowering canola crop grows in the Canadian prairies, with smoky air from forest fires to the north obscuring the morning sun, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change / FOCUS
Sep 23, 2025
The unexpected upside of Canada's wildfires 
By Ed White
Canada is the world's largest producer of canola, growing 21 million acres in a band along the country's vast northern forests.
A sign displays a temperature of 45 degrees Celsius in Thionville, northeastern France, on July 2.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Sep 17, 2025
Climate change led to at least 16,500 heat deaths in Europe this summer
By Emma Court
Europe is the world’s fastest-warming continent and the Mediterranean is a hot spot for climate change.

Bear kills another person in Japan in record year for fatal attacks
Police investigate the scene of a bear attack that killed one person and injured three others on Friday in the village of Higashinaruse in Akita Prefecture.
Trump arrives in Japan for security and trade talks in test for Takaichi
U.S. President Donald Trump is welcomed by Emperor Naruhito upon his arrival at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Monday evening.
Japanese firms keep expanding in Germany's North Rhine-Westphalia
A Nishiyama Seimen employee works at its factory in Sapporo.
Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell
Mamoru Iwai, stationmaster of Keisei Ueno Station, says that, other than earthquake-proofing, the former Hakubutsukan-Dobutsuen (Museum-Zoo) Station has remained untouched.
Takaichi’s ‘Trump card’ for meeting U.S. leader? Her relationship with Abe.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi reacts as East Timor Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao greets her during the ASEAN-Japan summit in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Mamoru Iwai, stationmaster of Keisei Ueno Station, says that, other than earthquake-proofing, the former Hakubutsukan-Dobutsuen (Museum-Zoo) Station has remained untouched.
Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell
By Alex K.T. Martin

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