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Houses burned down by the Palisades Fire in Malibu, California. The widespread wildfires represented the most costly climate-linked disaster of 2025, in financial terms.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change / OUR PLANET
Dec 28, 2025
In 2025, climate policy was shoved aside even as extreme weather intensified
This year was not a good one for environmentalists or climate scientists as action against warming faced headwinds around the world.
An Eiffel tower replica statue is on display outside the United Nations COP21 climate summit in Paris in November 2015.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 28, 2025
Ten years after the Paris agreement, let¡¯s redouble efforts
France has reduced greenhouse-gas emissions by 30% compared with 1990, including 20% between 2017 and 2024.
The sun rises by the Eiffel Tower and the Sacre Coeur Basilica in Paris on July 1 as the city is on red alert for high temperatures. Global temperatures have been stoked ever higher by humanity's emissions of planet-heating gases, largely from fossil fuels burned on a massive scale since the industrial revolution.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Dec 9, 2025
2025 on track to tie as second-hottest year on record, EU monitor says
Scientists warn rising temperatures, even incremental ones, are already destabilizing the climate and making storms, floods and other disasters fiercer and more frequent.
Fossil fuels like propane and isobutane, commonly used for BBQs, are helping replace potent hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants, significantly cutting greenhouse gas emissions and showing that practical solutions can slow global warming.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 5, 2025
BBQ gas is helping to cool a warming planet
A widening array of national-level regulations, prompted by the United Nations-backed Kigali Amendment on HFCs, are gradually pushing hydrofluorocarbons out of the market.
U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaks during the Reuters NEXT conference in New York on Wednesday.
ENVIRONMENT / Energy
Dec 4, 2025
Multilateralism works even as U.S., fossil fuel industry oppose climate action, U.N. chief says
The recent COP30 summit pushed through a compromise climate deal that supports poor nations coping with global warming but omitted any mention of the fossil fuels driving it.
A climate-displaced woman stands along the Kholpetua River on April 26 in Bangladesh¡¯s Satkhira district, where rising sea levels threaten coastal communities.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 25, 2025
The real failure on climate didn¡¯t happen in Brazil
Of the 10 biggest polluters accounting for three-quarters of carbon emissions, just two ¡ª the European Union and Japan ¡ª have submitted documents with any hope of being enacted.
An Indigenous man holds a sign reading "The death of the forest is the end of our lives" during what was called the "Great People's March" on the sidelines of the COP30 U.N. Climate Change Conference in Belem, Para State, Brazil on Nov. 15.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 25, 2025
Indigenous peoples¡¯ demands got more than lip service at COP30
Indigenous peoples had unprecedented visibility at the COP30 summit, with about 3,000 in Belem and more than 400 representatives from 361 ethnic groups accredited for the event.
Tech firms including Microsoft were among those represented on a provisional U.N. list of attendees of the official COP30 summit.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 24, 2025
U.S. companies hold the line at climate talks despite Trump
With threats to factories, supply chains and the bottom line, company executives said they didn't think now was a good time to opt out of the climate conversation.
A drone view shows rings formed by the towers of a research project where scientists have built a "time machine" pumping carbon dioxide into the rainforest canopy to simulate atmospheric conditions predicted for the future to gauge how the biome adapts in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, on May 14.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 23, 2025
New tech could help COP30's Amazon rainforest protection goals
Resembling upside-down tree roots, the tangled mangrove branches that extend into the water and provide a habitat for fish and crabs have been under increasing threat.
COP30 President Andre Correa do Lago (center) hugs Brazilian Environment Minister Marina Silva after her speech at the COP30 U.N. climate change conference in Belem, Brazil, on Saturday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 23, 2025
COP30 climate deal a 'win' for global unity but fossil fuels untouched
Nearly 200 countries approved the deal by consensus after two weeks of exhaustive negotiations, with the notable absence of the U.S.
Attendees gather near the China Pavilion at COP30 in Belem, Brazil, last week.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 22, 2025
Why China isn¡¯t filling climate leadership void after U.S. retreat
There had been hopes that China, an advocate of emissions reduction and clean tech, would fill in for lost U.S. leadership at COP 30.
Attendees during the COP30 climate summit in Belem, Para state, Brazil, on Nov. 10
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 21, 2025
Preparing for a riskier world is becoming a bigger part of climate talks
As the COP30 climate summit draws to an end, negotiators are still struggling over an agreement over how to transition away from fossil fuel.
Indigenous people attend a protest to call for climate justice and territorial protection during the U.N. Climate Change Conference, in Belem, Brazil, on Monday.
ENVIRONMENT / Energy
Nov 20, 2025
As COP30 discusses end of fossil fuels, are renewables ready?
Although renewable power is expanding fast, the world is not on track to triple clean energy by 2030, a target set at COP28 in Dubai two years ago.
Signage during the COP30 Leaders Summit at Parque da Cidade, the main venue for the COP30 summit, in Belem, Para state, Brazil, on Nov. 6
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 18, 2025
Clamor for change builds inside the world's COP30 climate negotiations
More than 30 years of talks on global action to tackle climate change have led to progress, including renewable energy expansion and scaled-up climate funds, but not enough.
A truck transports timber across an Amazonian field during a Greenpeace flyover amid the U.N. Climate Change Conference, near Cachoeira do Piria, state of Para, Brazil, on Nov. 13.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 18, 2025
With more heat and storms, can COP30 boost front-line resilience?
The question of how to make vulnerable communities more resilient in a hotter world is a key debate in the vast compound hosting the COP30 talks.
Tanks storing liquefied carbon dioxide captured at Heidelberg Materials' plant in Brevik, Norway, on June 18
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 17, 2025
Carbon capture promoters turn up in numbers at COP30, NGO says
The NGO's list names oil and gas giants such as ExxonMobil, Shell and BP, along with Brazil's state-owned Petrobras and China National Petroleum.
Attendees walk in front of the China Pavilion during the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Belem, Brazil, on Friday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change / ANALYSIS
Nov 16, 2025
China finds bigger role as U.S. sidesteps Brazil climate summit
China¡¯s transformation to a more central player seeking the world¡¯s attention reflects a shift in the fight against global warming.
People shelter from the sun as they visit the Brandenburg Gate during a heat wave in Berlin in July. An October report in The Lancet scientific journal estimates the yearly number of deaths from heat-related causes worsened by climate change at nearly 550,000.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 14, 2025
Deadly heat worldwide prompts $300 million for climate health research at COP30
U.N. agencies in August estimated about half the world¡¯s population, or more than 3.3 billion people, are already struggling with the rising heat.
An Indigenous demonstrator is held by security staff after protesters forced their way into the venue hosting the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Belem, Brazil, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 12, 2025
Protesters force their way into COP30 summit venue and clash with security
Shouting angrily, protesters demanded access to the U.N. compound where thousands of delegates from countries around the world are attending this year's U.N. climate summit.
A Malian refugee woman at a refugee camp in Bassikounou, Mauritania, on Nov. 4. UNHCR, the U.N. refugee agency, has said that within 15 years the places currently hosting nearly half the world's refugees could be facing extreme exposure to climate-related shocks.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 11, 2025
Nearly half of all refugees to face extreme climate hazards by 2040, says UNHCR
By the middle of the century, the hottest 15 refugee camps in the world are also forecast to experience nearly 200 days of hazardous heat stress per year.
Water shortages hit tourist spots in Japan during Golden Week
A hot spring facility in the city of Tomioka, Gunma Prefecture, has suspended the operation of its open-air baths since March.
What is the hantavirus that killed three cruise ship passengers?
The cruise ship MV Hondius floats off the port of Praia, the capital of Cape Verde, on Sunday.
China's rare defiance of U.S. sanctions sparks showdown over banks
A Chinese flag flutters in front of the Shanghai Gaoqiao Company Refinery in Shanghai.
Article 9 in focus as Takaichi pushes for revision of Constitution
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi gives a speech in Hanoi on Saturday.
As Iran war sends oil prices soaring, some see fresh potential for solar in Japan
An agrivoltaic crop, in which solar panels are raised about 3 meters off the ground so that agricultural machinery can freely operate on the crops underneath, in Sosa, Chiba Prefecture.
Fujisawa flashpoint: A mosque project stokes nativist fears
Muslims pray at Tokyo Camii in the Yoyogi-Uehara neighborhood. Though Muslims account for only 0.3% of Japan¡¯s population, rhetoric in online spaces and by conservative politicians has fomented social tensions.
No longer shushed: Japan¡¯s cultural venues make room for children
In 2019, Saitama Arts Theater started permitting children under 3 to some of its shows. Previously, children under 4 were not permitted.
New head chef at Maz explores Peruvian food through a Japanese lens
Since taking over Maz last month, chef Yuya Nakamura has been gradually introducing more Japanese influences to the restaurant's innovative Peruvian cuisine.
For tourists in Japan¡¯s outdoor sports scene, safety is not guaranteed
Each winter, countless tourists flock to Japan's famous snow-covered mountains, but a lack of top-down regulation on the country's outdoor sports industry can make certain activities unnecessarily risky.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

Longform

Projects like the BuddhaBot aim to re-create dialogue once lost to time, raising questions about whether AI can extend the teachings of Buddha or merely simulate them.
Can AI replace a priest? Japan¡¯s temples and shrines are testing the limits.
By Alex K.T. Martin

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