By Adnan Abidi and Gabrielle Fonseca Johnson NEW DELHI (Reuters) – People living near a river running through India’s capital began returning to their homes on Monday as floodwaters receded five days after the Yamuna overflowed into the city. The Yamuna River rose to its highest in 45 years last week following unusually heavy rainfall…
By Ross Kerber (Reuters) – The world’s top asset manager BlackRock said it will offer proxy voting choices to U.S. retail investors of its biggest exchange-traded fund, expanding a strategy that could blunt criticism of how the firm considers environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters. A representative for New York-based BlackRock said it plans to…
(This July 16 story has been corrected to fix David Sandalow’s quote to say ‘climate diplomacy,’ not ‘diplomacy,’ in paragraph 6) By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and China will look to revive efforts to combat global warming this week, in bilateral meetings that observers hope will raise the bar on ambitions…
By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Monday blamed authorities’ failure to follow disaster response rules as the death toll from days of torrential rain rose to 40, including a dozen people found dead in a submerged underpass. Deluges have pummelled central and southern regions since Thursday as the rainy…
By Muyu Xu BEIJING/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – China’s average daily coal production rebounded in June from a six-month low the prior month, official data showed on Monday, as miners ramped up output to meet increasing demand from power generators amid a heatwave. China churned out 390.1 million metric tons of coal last month, up 2.5% from…
By Borja Suarez (Reuters) -Firefighters were trying to contain a wildfire which burned out of control and forced the evacuation of at least 4,000 people on the Spanish island of La Palma, authorities said on Sunday. The fire on La Palma started in the early hours of Saturday in El Pinar de Puntagorda, a wooded…
By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) -Italy issued hot weather red alerts for 16 cities on Sunday, with meteorologists warning that temperatures will hit record highs across southern Europe in the coming days. Spain, Italy and Greece have been experiencing scorching temperatures for several days already, damaging agriculture and leaving tourists scurrying for shade. But a…
By Sharon Bernstein, Rachel Nostrant and Rich McKay (Reuters) -Michael Shields has serviced swimming pools in the Phoenix area for years, enough time to hone a strategy for surviving the brutal heat that descends on this Arizona desert city every summer. He typically rises at 4 a.m., covers himself in protective clothing, loads up on…
(Reuters) -Fighters from the Wagner group have arrived in Belarus from Russia, Ukrainian and Polish officials said on Saturday, a day after Minsk said the mercenaries were training the country’s soldiers southeast of the capital. “Wagner is in Belarus,” Andriy Demchenko, a spokesman for the Ukrainian border agency, said in a statement on the Telegram…
By Daewoung Kim and Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL/CHEONGJU, South Korea (Reuters) -The bodies of eight people trapped in a tunnel flooded by heavy rain in central South Korea were retrieved on Sunday, authorities said, with the death toll from days of torrential downpours that have pounded the country rising to 37. Seo Jeong-il, head of the…
