Environment

World’s largest carbon producers ordered to respond to allegations of human rights abuses from climate change

Companies responsible for the majority of fossil fuel products that have been manufactured, marketed, and sold since the industrial revolution and have contributed the lion’s share of cumulative global emissions of industrial CO2 and methane, have...

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EPA Issues Final Rule to Protect the Public from Exposure to Formaldehyde

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on 27 July moves to reduce exposure to formaldehyde vapors from certain wood products produced domestically or imported into the United States. The agency worked with the California Air Resources Board...

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Restoration commitments from Africa push the Bonn Challenge beyond 100 million hectares

Ministers from Guinea, the Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, and Ghana have voiced their commitments to restore 11.5 million hectares of degraded forests at a high-level roundtable in Kigali, Rwanda, on July 26.

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Temperature in Kuwait hits 54 Celsius, sets possible record amid Middle East heatwave – UN

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Dohuk, Iraq, Sharia camp (file).

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