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Latest news and updates about issues impacting the global environment, including climate change, recycling, pollution and sustainable living.

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  • Testing found high levels of E coli along a section of the Thames that will be used for the historic race rowing race between Oxford and Cambridge on Saturday
  • The pollution has also cast doubt on the post-race tradition of throwing the winning cox into the water

The world is just beginning to see the worst impacts of climate change, and world leaders must put aside their distrust and geopolitical tensions to deliver on their decarbonisation commitments, one of the world’s top climate scientists has said.

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The nation’s largest oil and gas producer says it is on track to peak carbon emissions next year and double the contribution of low-carbon energy to its output capacity over two years, top leaders say.

Around 2 million tonnes of plastic waste is created each year in Thailand, according to official figures, in a nation seemingly addicted to plastic.

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The east Malaysian state is surrounded by water, but years of infrastructure neglect and an El Nino-triggered drought have brought severe shortages as tankers are deployed to supply water to villages ‘around the clock’.

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The Balik and Paser tribes living in the Sepaku district of East Kalimantan fear their land will be taken to make way for Nusantara’s core government area.

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City’s finance chief and California’s secretary for environmental protection Yana Garcia call for political differences to be put aside at a University of Hong Kong forum.

Government plans to establish a clear pathway on sustainability reporting for businesses in Hong Kong this year, a move that is ‘essential’ to ‘reinforcing Hong Kong’s leading position on the international sustainable-finance map’, says financial services secretary.

Urban Renewal Authority insists redevelopment plan will not ‘destroy’ Mong Kok flower market’s charm, but improve business for traders and the city economy.

Asiatic black bears, as moon bears are also known, are classified as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of endangered species. Across Asia, thousands are kept as pets or farmed to extract their bile.

Readers discuss the need for national governments to work with cities on climate change, public officials using plastic bags and containers, and the potential for social media to help ecological preservation.

Reaching 160km/h (99mph) in a trial run, China’s new hydrogen-powered train is touted as a cleaner transport option as the nation strives to peak emissions by 2030.

Government to post warnings at immigration checkpoints and hotels to remind travellers to have their own hygiene products, such as razors, because of throwaway plastics ban.

The UN’s World Meteorological Organization’s report confirmed preliminary data indicating that last year was by far the hottest year ever recorded/

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Beach erosion has seen three major casinos in Atlantic City pressing the federal and state governments to expedite a sand replenishment project that was supposed to have been undertaken in 2023.

Groundwater, relied on by over one-third of the city’s 13 million residents, is running desperately low – resulting in sky-high costs for water and a quickly dwindling supply.