With more flooding expected, Venice closes St. Mark's Square again
Venice closed its iconic St. Mark's Square on Sunday ahead of the third major flooding in less than a week, as rain lashed the rest of Italy and warnings were issued in Florence and Pisa. Venice forecast an "acqua alta," or high water, of 160 ...
Sudanese hope Ethiopian dam will end flooding problem along course of Blue Nile
The Blue Nile is a renegade river, according to Sudanese farmer Osman Idris, its unpredictable flooding swallows crops and houses as it crashes through Sudan from Ethiopia on its way to Egypt. "Tonight, the level of water will be low," said Idris, a resident of ...
Shinjiro Koizumi makes it into 'leaders' section of Time magazine's '100 Next' list
Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi has been chosen by Time magazine as one of the world's 100 rising stars who are expected to shape the future in various sectors. While noting that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to become the Asian nation's longest-serving leader, the ...
Green markets for equitable growth
Any realistic solution to the climate crisis must keep the engines of economic growth running. A global carbon market would do just that.
Makah Tribe hopes to hunt whales again, 20 years after last kill
A weeklong hearing in Seattle will help determine whether a small American Indian tribe from the northwest corner of Washington state can once again hunt whales. The Makah Tribe conducted its last legal hunt in 1999, when its crew harpooned a gray whale from a ...
Next time you visit your hairdresser, spare a thought for the pigeons. For a long time scientists thought the fact that pigeons in urban environments often lost their toes was due to some form of infection or was a reaction to chemical pollutants. But now researchers ...
Kyoto considers entering Japan's nascent local green bond market
The city of Kyoto is exploring a possible sale of debt to finance environmental, social and governance projects, in what may be the country's only such municipal bond after Tokyo, the mayor has said. The historic former capital, which has more than 1,600 temples, is ...
Why the plastic crisis matters
Humankind must find ways to get by without laying waste to the planet.
Six dead as Cyclone Bulbul smashes into Indian, Bangladeshi coasts
Six people died and more than 2 million others spent a night huddled in storm shelters as Cyclone Bulbul smashed into the coasts of India and Bangladesh with fierce gales and torrential rain, officials said Sunday. The cyclone packed winds of up to 120 kph ...
Pacific's Midway Atoll bird refuge struggles as ocean garbage patch grows
Flying into the uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Midway Atoll appears out of the vast blue Pacific as a tiny oasis of coral-fringed land with pristine white sand beaches that are teeming with life. But on the ground, there's a different scene: plastic, pollution and death. With ...
Hundreds of thousands evacuated as cyclone bears down on Bangladesh coast
With a strong cyclone approaching Bangladesh on Saturday, authorities used more than 50,000 volunteers and officials to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people to shelters across the low-lying delta nation's vast coastal region. More than 300,000 people had already moved to safer places and up ...
Macron scraps plans for €3 billion Franco-Chinese shopping mall near Paris amid environmental gripes
French President Emmanuel Macron has decided to scrap a €3 billion ($3.32 billion) shopping and leisure complex project that French retail group Auchan and Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda planned to build just outside Paris, the Elysee Palace said on Thursday. The EuropaCity project, which was ...
