EU ministers on Friday agreed cuts to peak-hour power consumption and windfall levies on energy companies in an urgent effort to bring down sky-high energy prices.

Egypt, which is hosting the upcoming COP27 climate summit, is working on how to include compensation for economic losses caused by climate catastrophes on the formal agenda of the November summit, as pressure grows from vulnerable countries to prioritise the issue.

The European Commission has lodged severe complaints with Belgium, Austria and Germany for failing to transpose the 2018 Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) into national law.

An expected drop in Shell’s net greenhouse gas emissions is not aligned with the Paris Agreement and with a Dutch court order for the now UK-based supermajor to slash emissions much more by 2030, activist investor Follow This says.

Hurricane Ian brought high winds, heavy rains, storm surges and intense flooding to Florida on Wednesday, making landfall in the afternoon and moving inland through the evening.

Koala “bears” are a marsupial — not a mammal, and, therefore, not actually a bear — that evolved over 25 million years ago.

The death of hundreds of thousands of fish in the River Oder this summer was most probably caused by the excessive growth of an alga that flourishes in brackish water, German environmental authorities said in a report issued on Friday.

Hurricane Ian barreled north Friday, making a second landfall in South Carolina, a day after carving a path of destruction across central Florida.

The United States and more than a dozen Pacific island nations vowed to strengthen their partnership in a declaration released on Thursday.

Hurricane Ian was not just a powerful storm, but a preview of what’s to come.