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September 22, 2025 5:41 PM

Switzerland’s Gries Glacier melting at an alarming pace

Switzerland's 5.4 km-long Gries Glacier, a focal point for research, is retreating at an alarming pace as climate change accelerates an unprecedented ice melt across the country, the Swiss glacier monitoring service said. "This is a dying glacier," ...

September 22, 2025 3:29 PM

Super Typhoon Ragasa barrels through northern Philippines, triggers alerts across region

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr ordered the Philippines disaster response agency to go on full alert and mobilise all government agencies as Super Typhoon Ragasa threatened the north of the country and set off storm alerts across East and Southeast Asi...

September 22, 2025 10:13 AM

Philippines halts work, classes as super typhoon barrels toward Luzon

The Philippines suspended work and classes across Metro Manila and large parts of the country on Monday as Super Typhoon Ragasa moved toward northern Luzon, threatening destructive winds and heavy rain. State weather officials raised the highest typ...

September 22, 2025 9:56 AM

Hong Kong airport to shut for 36 hours due to Typhoon Ragasa

Hong Kong International Airport will suspend all passenger flights for 36 hours from Tuesday evening, Qantas Airways said, as the Asian financial hub prepares for one of its strongest super typhoons in years. Hong Kong's Airport will be closed from ...

September 20, 2025 2:50 PM

Brazil will be first to invest in global forest fund

Brazil will become the first country to announce an investment in the Tropical Forests Forever Facility, a multilateral funding mechanism it has proposed to support conservation of endangered forests globally, three people with knowledge of the plans...

September 19, 2025 11:58 AM

Strong quake hits Russia’s Kamchatka, no damage reported

A strong earthquake struck Russia's far eastern Kamchatka region, the regional governor said on Friday, prompting a series of tsunami warnings in the region, but despite waves reaching the shore, there were no reports of damage. The U.S. Geological ...

September 19, 2025 10:05 AM

Cloudburst triggers flash floods in Himachal’s Kinnaur; houses, vehicles swept away

A cloudburst in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur district triggered flash floods in Thach village early Friday, sweeping away vehicles, damaging houses and destroying orchards. The incident occurred around 12.10 am when three adjoining mountain streams ...

September 18, 2025 2:52 PM

Bananas? Taiwan entrepreneur wants to make clothes out of plant material

Entrepreneur Nelson Yang is reaching back into Taiwan's history to turn the humble banana plant into an unlikely sustainable textile. Taiwan is now the world's dominant producer of advanced semiconductors but the yellow fruit, still widely grown on ...

September 18, 2025 2:21 PM

Heavy rainfall to continue over Uttarakhand, Andaman & Nicobar Islands; light showers likely in Delhi

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast heavy to very heavy rainfall over Uttarakhand, sub-Himalayan West Bengal, and Sikkim on Wednesday, with heavy showers expected to persist over the Andaman & Nicobar Islands for the next two d...

September 18, 2025 1:30 PM

India notifies National Policy on Geothermal Energy 2025 to boost clean energy transition

In a move to diversify India’s renewable energy portfolio and achieve its Net Zero 2070 target, the government on Wednesday notified the National Policy on Geothermal Energy (2025). The policy seeks to harness the country’s largely untapped geoth...

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