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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said that Europe must “fight the fundamentalist greens” if it hopes to solve its energy crisis.

(Beirut) – The Egyptian government has severely curtailed environmental groups’ ability to carry out independent policy, advocacy, and field work essential to protecting the country’s natural environment, Human Rights Watch said today. These restrictions violate the rights to freedom of assembly and association and threaten Egypt’s ability to uphold

More than half of California’s rice fields have been left fallow this year due to the ongoing drought and a lack of allocations from state and federal water projects, leaving the Sacramento Valley, normally inundated with water this time of year, dry. The San Francisco Chronicle reports: Normally, by

Well that is a relief right? Here we all were….

Thursday marks the eighth consecutive day on which a “Flex Alert” will be declared in the State of California, telling electricity consumers to minimize their use of energy, including by not plugging in electric vehicles, between the hours of 3:00 and 10:00 p.m. As the San Francisco

Disastrous floods now cover nearly one-third of Pakistan, causing billions of dollars in damages to crops, houses, and other buildings, and severely impacting the lives of 33 million people, many of whom have been displaced from their homes. The consequences have been especially horrific for children, who make up about

In Brazil, news of a slain forest guardian overshadowed the commemoration of Amazon Day on September 5, as the killing put in stark relief the reality of the rainforest and its embattled defenders.

A former Swedish finance minister has warned that the shutdown of the Nord Stream 1 natural gas pipeline by Russia could lead to a crisis worse than both the pandemic and the 2008 financial crisis.

Tarik, age 42, lives in a village adjacent to a decades-old coal power plant in Bosnia and Herzegovina.On the day we visited, Bosnian cities were some of the most polluted places on Earth.

Officials are asking Californians to use less electricity as the state faces record demand for energy on Tuesday, creating the possibility for rolling blackouts in the midst of a heat wave.

Boris Johnson leaves office only a short time after becoming the first Conservative (Tory) leader to win a really substantial parliamentary majority since the 1980s, brought low by a series of scandals and fallout from his handling of coronavirus lockdown. Outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson walked out of Downing Street

California officials declared an “Energy Emergency Alert” on Monday as the state ran out of power supplies and was forced to activate four backup plants powered by natural gas.