By AFPIndonesia broke ground Sunday on a $5.9 billion megaproject for EV battery production backed by Chinese giant CATL, despite NGOs raising concerns over a lack of environmental guarantees.Indonesia is the world's largest nickel producer and it is...

By AFP/Hiroshi HIYAMAJapan experienced its hottest June on record, the weather agency said Tuesday, as climate change prompts sweltering heat waves across the globe."Japan's monthly average temperature in June was the highest for the month since stat...

By AFPThe climate crisis is threatening the right to life, the UN human rights chief warned Monday, as a heatwave roasted southern Europe.Volker Turk hit out at fossil fuel companies, saying they were peddling falsehoods to distract from the damage c...

By AFP/Nicholas ROLLUnder the din of traffic from the highway bridge that cuts over his fields, Bala Haruna inspects corn, cassava and okra on his family farm.A pump pulls up water from a nearby stream and is diverted through trenches dug through cro...

By AFP/Marlowe HOODThe credibility of climate pledges by the world's tech giants to rapidly become carbon neutral is fading fast as they devour more and more energy in the race to develop AI and build data centres, researchers warned Thursday.Apple,...

By AFP/Ella Ide with Tom Masson and Rosa SulleiroFirefighters mobilised in several countries to tackle blazes as southern Europeans sought shelter from punishing temperatures of a heatwave that is set to intensify in the coming days.Fires broke out i...

By AFP/Julien MIVIELLEThis year's UN COP30 summit in Brazil was hotly-anticipated as a pivotal moment for the planet, as the world fast approaches a key global warming threshold.But the hosts are yet to propose a headline ambition for the marathon No...

By AFP/Leslie FAUVELIt only took two days for Nigeria to raise $59 million through green bonds -- part of a funding drive for climate and environmental projects in a nation still hooked on oil.Africa remains a small player in the green bond market, a...

By AFP/Joris BOLOMEYCovered in black soot, the workers zigzagged from one machine to another in the searing African sun.But the charcoal they were making is known as "green", and backers hope it can save impoverished Chad from rampant deforestation.C...

By AFPUN climate chief Simon Stiell urged countries on Thursday to accelerate negotiations ahead of the COP30 in Brazil as there was a lot left to be done.Speaking after two weeks of technical talks in Bonn, Stiell closed the annual climate diplomacy...

By AFP/Maher Al Mounes with Jihad DarwishRival Syrian and Kurdish producers are scrambling for shrinking wheat harvests as the worst drought in decades follows a devastating war, pushing more than 16 million people toward food insecurity."The country...

By AFPLegal efforts to block or unwind action on climate change are rising across the globe, new research showed Wednesday, particularly in the United States which leads the world on anti-green litigation.This trend was expected to intensify as the W...