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November 6, 2025 4:50 PM

Google deal for Amazon reforestation makes Brazilian startup its top carbon credit supplier

Google has struck its biggest carbon removal deal, agreeing to finance restoration of the Amazon rainforest with Brazilian startup Mombak, as big tech hunts for high-quality credits to offset emissions tied to energy-hungry data centers. The compani...

November 6, 2025 2:51 PM

IMD forecasts heavy rain for Tamil Nadu and Kerala

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Thursday forecast isolated heavy rainfall over Tamil Nadu between November 6 and 8, and over Kerala from November 8 to 10. During the past 24 hours (ending at 8:30 a.m. on November 6), heavy to very heavy...

November 6, 2025 5:30 PM

Sao Paulo hosts business leaders as COP30 prepares to launch in Belem

As world leaders gather in Brazil for the COP30 climate talks, the business and finance leaders they are hoping will bankroll the fight against global warming are thousands of miles away on the other side of the country – by design. Many of the ex...

November 6, 2025 1:17 PM

Scientists in Brazil starve trees of water to test Amazon’s limits

Under Brazil's Amazon rainforest canopy, hundreds of transparent plastic panels hang between tree trunks to starve a hectare of land of half the water it normally receives. Scientists are creating this artificial drought in Querencia municipality cl...

November 6, 2025 10:18 AM

Heavy rain forecast across TN till Nov 11, schools shut in Tirupattur today

Tamil Nadu is expected to witness widespread rainfall till November 11 due to the prevailing atmospheric circulation over the state’s interior regions, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD). In its latest forecast, the Regional Me...

November 6, 2025 9:50 AM

Typhoon Kalmaegi death toll hits 114 in Philippines; storm rebuilds strength as it heads to Vietnam

The death toll in the Philippines from Typhoon Kalmaegi rose to 114 with another 127 people still missing, the disaster agency said on Thursday, as the storm that devastated the country's central regions regained strength as it headed towards Vietnam...

November 5, 2025 3:26 PM

Typhoon Kalmaegi death toll climbs to 66 as Philippine survivors confront destruction

As the death toll from Typhoon Kalmaegi in the Philippines climbed to 66, residents in the hardest-hit province of Cebu are confronting the devastation it left behind: homes reduced to rubble, streets choked with debris, and lives upended. In Talisa...

November 5, 2025 6:17 PM

EU agrees weakened climate target in final-hour deal for COP30

EU climate ministers agreed a 2040 climate change target in the early hours of Wednesday after watering down the goal in last-minute negotiations, as they raced to clinch the deal before the U.N. COP30 summit in Brazil. After negotiating late into T...

November 5, 2025 9:19 AM

US to provide $24 million for Caribbean countries hit by Hurricane Melissa

The United States is providing $24 million in emergency assistance for Jamaica, Haiti, the Bahamas and Cuba after the countries were hit by Hurricane Melissa last week, the State Department said on Tuesday. The department deployed teams to help with...

November 4, 2025 10:24 PM

Dozens killed, army helicopter downed as Typhoon Kalmaegi hits Philippines

The death toll from Typhoon Kalmaegi in the Philippines hit 46 on Tuesday, officials said, including six crew of a military helicopter that crashed during the powerful storm that unleashed heavy rains and floods across the central region. The Huey h...

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