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Chile is moving forward with plans to establish a new national park at the country’s southernmost tip, a sparsely populated region often described as the “edge of the world.” The proposed protected area, located near the Strait of Magellan on the Brunswick Peninsula, would span roughly 150,000 hectares of subantarctic forests, peatlands, glaciers, and coastal […]

India will extend a USD 450 million relief and reconstruction package to Sri Lanka following the devastation caused by a powerful cyclone, Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar said during an official visit to Colombo. The support includes a mix of grants and concessional financing and is intended to help Sri Lanka recover from widespread damage to

The European Union is preparing tougher rules on plastic imports as domestic recyclers struggle to compete with cheaper foreign materials. European recycling plants have faced closures and reduced output due to an influx of low-cost plastics, including virgin plastics that are often misdeclared as recycled. Rising energy prices and fluctuating oil costs have further squeezed

Turkey’s Konya Plain, one of the country’s most productive agricultural regions, is increasingly threatened by the sudden appearance of sinkholes as prolonged drought and intensive groundwater use destabilize the land. Hundreds of collapses have been recorded across farmlands that supply staple crops such as wheat, maize, and sugar beet. Scientists link the phenomenon to rapidly

Indonesia’s government has announced plans to pursue as much as $8.5 billion in fines from palm oil growers and mining firms accused of operating illegally inside protected forest areas. Authorities say investigations have identified millions of hectares of land that were cleared or used without proper permits, with the bulk of potential penalties linked to

China has said that coral reef damage around the contested Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea was caused largely by military activities, including live-fire drills and aircraft exercises conducted in nearby waters. According to an ecological assessment released by China’s Ministry of Natural Resources and reported by state media, repeated bomb-dropping exercises and other

A court in Switzerland has agreed to hear a climate-related lawsuit filed by residents of Indonesia’s low-lying Pari Island against Holcim, one of the world’s largest cement manufacturers. The case, lodged in the Canton of Zug, argues that Holcim’s long-term carbon emissions have contributed to rising sea levels that are now regularly flooding the island

The Arctic has once again emerged as one of the fastest-warming regions on Earth, registering its highest temperatures in at least 125 years, according to a new assessment by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The report notes that average air temperatures across the Arctic from late 2024 through much of 2025 were

The year 2025 became a stark illustration of how rapidly the planet is warming and how unevenly societies are responding. Global temperatures remained at historic highs, with scientists confirming that the rolling multi-year average temporarily crossed the 1.5°C warming threshold set under the Paris Agreement. This warming translated into severe real-world impacts: prolonged heatwaves, destructive

India’s central government has proposed a sweeping restructuring of its flagship rural employment scheme, moving to repeal the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and replace it with a new framework that drops Mahatma Gandhi’s name. The proposed legislation, tentatively titled the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Bill,