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Time for climate action, not endless reviews: Yadav at pre-COP30 meet
Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav has said that while dialogue on climate change remains important, the global community must now prioritise implementing ambitious climate measures. Addressing the Global Stocktake (GST) breakout session...
Two years on: The cost of the government’s war on nature – Greenpeace
Today marks two years since the 2023 election. The environmental cost of the Luxon Government’s war on nature since then has been staggering and is growing by the week. “From overturning the oil and gas exploration ban to fast-tracking seabed...

LA County declares a state of emergency due to immigration raids, citing ‘climate of fear’
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors declared a local, county emergency on Tuesday, Oct. 14, providing a way to help families harmed by federal immigration raids by granting the county more power to offer assistance to those who’ve lost...

Making the Case for Virtual Segmentation in OT Environments
Cloud Security , Governance & Risk Management , Operational Technology (OT) CS4CA Summit Highlights How IT, OT Teams Can Come Together to Implement Zero Trust Tony Morbin (@tonymorbin) • October 14, 2025 Image: Shutterstock At the recent CS4CA...

Ross to update town climate plan
Ross will update its climate plan to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. The Town Council instructed staff on Oct. 9 to collaborate with the Marin Climate Action and Community Partnership to update the 15-year-old climate plan. Ross, which has...

Climate change making Ireland more hospitable to invasive species, experts warn
The discovery of two large Asian hornet nests in Cork and the single hornet sighting in Dublin in August and September is the latest indication that climate change is making Ireland more suitable for invasive species, the Climate Change Advisory...
Palaszczuk’s warning to Qld Liberals after it ‘trashed’ renewables plan
Former Queensland premier Anastasia Palaszczuk has rubbished the incumbent Energy Minister’s plan to “tear up” the existing renewables timeline and maintain existing coal-fired power stations. Liberal Treasurer and Energy Minister David Janetzki...

'Balancing act' needed for Malaysia to update NDC as minister seeks more time for climate change bill
Although the government is “deeply committed to global climate action” in line with the Paris Agreement, it must also consider what Malaysia can realistically achieve as a developing economy, said Johari, who is also Malaysia’s plantations and...
Pacific voices urge experts to 'decolonise' adaptation at New Zealand's largest climate forum
Talia told RNZ Pacific he feels adaptation is generally presented in a Western lens. Photo: Supplied: Hall Contracting Pacific leaders believe climate experts are missing an opportunity to incorporate indigenous knowledge into adaptation measures....
Carbon price could triple under 2035 climate plan
The cost of complying with the Albanese government’s flagship emissions reduction policy for big industrial facilities may need to more than triple by the end of the decade if Labor is to meet the top end of its new 2035 climate target. Under the...

COP29 Chief Negotiator presents update on Baku to Belém Roadmap to $1.3T climate finance plan
Deputy Foreign Minister and COP29 Chief Negotiator Yalchin Rafiyev presented update on the Baku to Belém Roadmap to USD 1.3T, launched in Baku during COP29, together with the COP30 incoming Presidency, COP29 Azerbaijan said in an X post, APA...

The flame trees are out before the jacarandas: how climate change affects our gardens
"From an evolutionary perspective, if the plants think things are likely to get stressful, that will stimulate a big, packed flowering, in order to be able to reproduce seeds and pass their genetic information on," Prof Summerall said.

Queensland’s pandering to climate deniers is making it even tougher for Albanese to drive down emissions
Meeting Australia’s emissions reduction targets is not going to be simple and the Queensland Liberal National government has gone out of its way to make it much harder. Its energy roadmap, released on Friday, can’t really be interpreted as...

Climatic Change Risk: Insurers Provide Way-out
As occurrence of climatic change related risks heighten across West African sub region, insurers said it is time to take precautionary measures like geo coding, parametric piloting in their risk pricing to cope with current challenges, writes...

Introducing AI Into an OT Environment
Governance & Risk Management , Operational Technology (OT) , Video Medmix's Sangaletti on AI-OT Convergence Joshua Cunningham-Marsh • October 14, 2025 Claudio Sangaletti, OT security leader, medmix The future of artificial intelligence in...

US Republicans Seek To Shield Oil Giants As Climate Lawsuits Advance
President Donald Trump's second term has seen the United States go all-in to boost Big Oil and block renewables -- yet a wave of state and local climate-damage lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry continues to advance. Now Republicans are...

Financial reform and climate resilience key to Malaysia’s AIR2040 agenda
KUALA LUMPUR: Immediate financial reform and stronger climate resilience within Malaysia’s water sector are crucial to realising the Water Sector Transformation 2040 agenda. Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof stressed that current...

Greenpeace urges Pre-COP talks to propel forest and climate action at COP30
Brasilia, Brazil, Preparatory talks at the Pre-COP in Brasilia must now lead to ambitious forest and climate outcomes at the UN climate summit COP30 next month. Ahead of COP30 in Belém, Greenpeace has proposed a forest action plan to end...
UK must be ready for ‘unprecedented’ heatwaves and flooding, climate experts warn
The UK must be prepared for “unprecedented” extreme weather conditions as worst-case scenarios for global warming cannot be ruled out, climate advisers have warned. Events like heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and flooding - which the UK has already...

Comment | Frieze galleries have committed to climate donations—now it's time for the art world to pack in its private jets
This month’s multiple whammy of Friezes London and Masters, swiftly followed by Art Basel Paris, and accompanied by the inevitable plethora of adjacent events and satellite art fairs, is never good news for the environment. And in these twitchy...