Green Deal, energy policy, and climate action
Europe’s carbon pricing debate has fractured into five rival political blocs, each with competing demands that threaten to reshape the EU’s emissions trading system. The outcome will determine whether Europe’s main climate tool survives intact or gets diluted beyond recognition.
The WHO issued urgent new guidance Thursday urging European countries to heat-proof hospitals and care facilities as record temperatures kill hundreds across the continent. The agency was unequivocal: these deaths don’t have to happen.
Seven British nationals are among 13 people killed in wildfires sweeping the Valencia region of Spain, authorities confirmed Tuesday. Twelve of the dead were foreign nationals caught in fast-moving blazes during an extreme heatwave.
A wildfire burning south of Paris may have been deliberately set, France’s interior minister said Wednesday, as two people were arrested near the suspected origin point. Hundreds of hectares of forest have burned and more than 1,200 residents have been evacuated from surrounding villages.
Mathieu Van der Poel sprinted to his third Tour de France stage win on Sunday, beating Tobias Johannessen and Tom Pidcock after race officials shortened the route due to extreme heat. The Dutch classics specialist showed once again that his power translates far beyond the cobbled spring races.
A British couple have returned to the Almerian village of Bedar after surviving a wildfire that killed at least 13 people, five believed to be Britons. The blaze scorched 2,400 hectares and left a tight-knit expat community shattered.
Renewed drone and missile strikes on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz sent oil prices surging past $97 a barrel Wednesday and triggered an urgent IMO call for de-escalation. The attacks are reigniting fears of a broader US-Iran war in one of the world’s most critical energy corridors.
Record temperatures are exposing a painful truth: most of our cities and buildings were never designed to handle extreme heat. The challenge of heatwave adaptation is enormous — and the clock is ticking.
Krithi Karanth was just one year old when her father first took her into the Indian jungle. Now she leads the Centre for Wildlife Studies and is one of the world’s foremost conservation biologists.
An oil tanker was struck by an “unknown projectile” Monday off Oman’s coast near the Strait of Hormuz, the British maritime agency UKMTO confirmed. The incident has raised fresh fears over the safety of one of the world’s most critical shipping lanes.
