China pushes technical solutions in race to meet climate goals
Government says it will promote construction of large-scale carbon capture demonstration projects and deploy advanced satellite technology to track land use change
Can SE Asian workers take the heat? Researchers tackle rising temperatures
Factory workers - many of the women - also face heat stress, says researcher on a new study that will examine heat impacts on outdoor and indoor workers in Southeast Asia
WWF urges pandemic reset to stop forest loss for harmful food production
Commercial agriculture is a key driver of deforestation, says green group, stressing COVID-19 offers a chance for a new relationship with nature
REUTERS NEXT-U.N. climate chief looks to Biden to boost global action
Incoming U.S. president and wealthy nations could help galvanise action on climate change this year, says U.N. climate boss
Senate shift paves way for straight-talking U.S. climate reforms
Democratic Senate race victories in Georgia give a 'green light' to President-elect Joe Biden's push for a new climate-smart pandemic stimulus
Brazil environmental fines fall 20% as deforestation soars
Brazil's rightwing administration has created impunity for illegal loggers, said a factchecking initiative, as fines drop sharply
Coronavirus causes largest U.S. greenhouse gas emissions drop since World War Two -report
The fall means the U.S. will outperform its pledge to reduce emissions 17% by 2020 - but they are due to rebound with economic activity, researchers warned
Warming Arctic at the frontier of climate insight and risk, experts say
Climate change is warming the Arctic twice as fast as the overall planet, with implications for everyone from indigenous people to insurers
Climate change blamed for a third of U.S. flood losses in past 3 decades
Global warming caused $75 billion in flood damages, researchers say - and "the more global warming we get, the more we can expect these damages to increase"
In Senegal, lack of cold storage limits COVID vaccine options
Senegal could only keep vaccines developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, or by China or Russia in the long term, as they do not require a deep freeze