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Climate change
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A man wades through a flooded street following heavy rain in Hoi An, Vietnam, on Thursday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Climate change and poor planning drive Vietnam flooding
The country is naturally vulnerable to frequent typhoons and some flooding, but the situation is being made worse by climate change, experts say.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
World far off track to meeting climate goals, U.N. warns
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that slow action from nations meant it was "inevitable" efforts to limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius would fail.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Mosquitoes discovered in Iceland for first time
Along with Antarctica, Iceland has long been one of the few places on earth without a mosquito population.
An Afghan man rests in a mosquito net tent beside a loaded truck outside a U.N. refugee repatriation center in Nowshera, Pakistan, on Aug. 27.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Oct 21, 2025
Climate change and population growth threaten to spark malaria resurgence
Insufficient funding for increasingly costly prevention programs risk eroding efforts made against the mosquito-borne illness, campaigners say.
Greenpeace activists hold signs reading "COP30 act for forests,” during the ministerial preparatory meeting, ahead of the COP30 climate summit, in Brasilia, Brazil on Monday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Oct 16, 2025
Trump’s team weighs COP attendance, but influence looms either way
By David Sherfinski
Experts say whatever decision the U.S. makes, its action or inaction will have a major impact.
The RRS Sir David Attenborough, moored in Harwich, eastern England, on Oct. 6 ahead of the ship's departure to undertake research in the Antarctic later in the month as part of British Antarctic Survey
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Oct 13, 2025
U.K. spearheads polar climate change research as U.S. draws back
By Joe JACKSON
Britain's RRS Sir David Attenborough will aid research on everything from "hunting underwater tsunamis" to tracking glacier melt and whale populations.
U.S. President Donald Trump has dismissed climate change as "the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world" and his administration has reportedly moved to quash debate on the issue.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Oct 8, 2025
Trump calls climate change a con; science braces for more
By David Sherfinski
The Department of Energy is reportedly telling staff to avoid using language that runs counter to the president's views on climate science.
A drone view shows the Turtmann glacier on a warm summer day, amid climate change, in Turtmann, Switzerland, on Sept. 3.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Oct 2, 2025
Swiss glaciers hit by light snowfall and heat wave, scientists say
By Cecile Mantovani and Denis Balibouse
Swiss glaciers below 3,000 meters above sea level suffered in particular this year.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses members of the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday. At a climate summit hosted by Guterres on Wednesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping said his country would cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 7%-10% from its peak by 2035.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Sep 25, 2025
Beijing takes the lead with new climate plans amid Washington’s denial
By Valerie Volcovici and Yukun Zhang
China's reduction target marked the first time the world's biggest emitter pledged a cut in emissions, rather than just limiting their growth.
In an hourlong speech before the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump attacked his predecessor, his European allies and renewable energy.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Sep 24, 2025
In bid to upend global energy policy, Trump denies climate change in U.N. speech
By Brian Kahn
The U.S. president made a series of misleading claims in a rambling speech that went on for nearly an hour.

Takaichi buys time and builds trust with ‘near-perfect’ Trump summit
U.S. President Donald Trump walks with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi aboard the USS George Washington aircraft carrier during a visit to the U.S. Navy's Yokosuka base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Tuesday.
Trump trims fentanyl-linked China tariffs after 'amazing' Xi meeting
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping greet each other as they arrive for talks at the Gimhae Air Base, next to the Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, on Thursday.
Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell
Mamoru Iwai, stationmaster of Keisei Ueno Station, says that, other than earthquake-proofing, the former Hakubutsukan-Dobutsuen (Museum-Zoo) Station has remained untouched.
Kyushu banzuke sets the stage to cement 2025’s sumo narratives
Onosato ahead of his bout against Aonishiki at The Grand Sumo Tournament at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Oct. 18
Takaichi pushed back on U.S. request to ban Russian gas imports, sources say
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi reportedly turned down a request from the U.S. to cease imports of liquefied natural gas from Russia.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Mamoru Iwai, stationmaster of Keisei Ueno Station, says that, other than earthquake-proofing, the former Hakubutsukan-Dobutsuen (Museum-Zoo) Station has remained untouched.
Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell
By Alex K.T. Martin

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