Russia completes 1st intl. sale of carbon units
Russia's Gazprombank has executed its first international transaction involving Russian carbon units, transferring…
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Climate change risks 70% of global workforce – ILO
Over 70 per cent of the global workforce is exposed to climate change-related risks, leading to hundreds of…
CarbonPool raises $12M in climate seed funding
CarbonPool, an insurance start-up founded by three ex-Allianz executives, recently closed the largest…
Australia faces extreme heat, fire risk in summer
A heat wave swept across large areas of Australia on Sunday, leading authorities to warn of an increase in the…
COP28: physicians protest for climate-related health threats action
On Sunday, a few doctors and climate activists conducted a demonstration at the COP28 venue to highlight…
Wildfire costs Europe €4.1bn damages – report
Wildfires spread in destinations like Sicily, Croatia and Greece, as it costs Europe an estimated €4.1 billion…
Wildfires kill 34 in Algeria due to heatwave
Wildfires in Algeria killed 34 people on Monday, including ten soldiers, according to Reuters, citing the interior…
Greece evacuates tourists from Rhodes Island due to land fires
Greek authorities forced to evacuate thousands of tourists from their hotels due to a wildfire on Rhodes Island, as…
Canadian wildfires prompt air quality alerts in U.S.
Smoke of wildfires in Canada have drifted into the United States, prompting several states to issue air quality…
Wildfires rage in Alberta, interrupting oil and gas production
The state of Alberta has declared a provincial state of emergency following the beginning of the wildfire season,…
Lebanon deploys water cannon, helicopters to fight wildfires across country
Wildfires that have swept across Lebanon since Monday have burned swathes of the country’s forest and killed at…
At least 23 dead, hundreds missing, as winds fan California fires
Firefighters struggled overnight to halt the spread of wildfires known to have killed 23 people in North…
Deadly California wildfires force thousands to evacuate
An onslaught of wildfires across a wide swath of Northern California broke out almost simultaneously then grew…
Israel arrests 13 on suspicion of arson over mass wildfires
Israeli police arrested 13 people on Friday on suspicion of arson, authorities said, after massive wildfires tore…