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Climate change

Dried out trees in a forest near Reiskirchen, Germany

ENVIRONMENT / Climate change

Dec 23, 2025

How German engineers are building future-proof forests

By Joanna Gill

Forest engineers are working on ways to future-proof forests in ?North Rhine-Westphalia under a program that includes mixing tree varieties to build resilience.

The construction site for the Greensand carbon dioxide terminal in the Port of Esbjerg, Denmark, expected to be completed in spring 2026. CCS technology is one of the tools approved by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the International Energy Agency to curb global warming, but the technology is complex and costly.

ENVIRONMENT / Climate change

Dec 22, 2025

North Sea project promises to return carbon to exactly where it came from

The Greensand project off Denmark is expected to store 400,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, in its reservoir beneath a small, wind-swept oil platform in the North Seam.

Smoke rises from chimneys at a factory in the port of Dunkirk, France, in January 2023. In the U.S., dozens of industries share a ready-made climate solution: electrification.

ENVIRONMENT / Climate change

Dec 17, 2025

New roadmap shows how to cut a surprisingly big source of emissions

Favorable tax treatment under U.S. President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act could encourage industries to upgrade to clean technologies such as electrification.

The remains of uprooted trees are seen at the Darul Mukhlisin Islamic boarding school and mosque in the aftermath of flash floods at Aceh Tamiang in Indonesia's Northern Sumatra, on Wednesday.

ENVIRONMENT / Climate change

Dec 11, 2025

Climate change supercharged $20 billion Asia floods, study finds

Warmer Indian Ocean waters likely fueled the two strongest storms, scientists reported in a rapid World Weather Attribution analysis released Thursday.

The sun rises by the Eiffel Tower and the Sacre Coeur Basilica in Paris on July 1 as the city is on red alert for high temperatures. Global temperatures have been stoked ever higher by humanity's emissions of planet-heating gases, largely from fossil fuels burned on a massive scale since the industrial revolution.

ENVIRONMENT / Climate change

Dec 9, 2025

2025 on track to tie as second-hottest year on record, EU monitor says

Scientists warn rising temperatures, even incremental ones, are already destabilizing the climate and making storms, floods and other disasters fiercer and more frequent.

People wade through the floodwater in the aftermath of flash floods at Tukka village, Central Tapanuli, North Sumatra province, Indonesia, on Tuesday.

ENVIRONMENT / Climate change

Dec 2, 2025

'Mischievous hands': Indonesians blame deforestation for devastating floods

Landslides buried homes and crippled rescue and relief efforts, while floodwaters washed ashore dozens of logs.

The outskirts of Bopolu, Liberia, in 2021. Liberia’s government signed a "carbon credit" agreement with a little-known Dubai company in 2023 that promised to protect vast tracts of forests and offset big polluters' emissions.

ENVIRONMENT / Climate change

Nov 26, 2025

The case of Africa's 'vanishing' carbon deals

By Kunle Adebajo and Evelyn Kpadeh Seagbeh

Blue Carbon's Africa venture highlights the complexity of delivering on carbon credits, plans that are often criticized for offering polluters a chance to "greenwash" emissions.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

The reflection of one of Ueno Zoo’s twin pandas is seen at their enclosure. The animals’ popularity has prompted concern among local businesses that their departure could hurt foot traffic in surrounding neighborhoods.

What happens when the pandas leave Ueno?

By Alex K.T. Martin

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