Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Snow grounds dozens of flights at Amsterdam airport
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dozens of flights to and from Amsterdam Schiphol airport were cancelled on Sunday due to snowfall expected to reach the Netherlands in the afternoon. Schiphol's website around mi...
Dec 03, 2023
COP28 delegates urge greater action on climate-linked health risks
By Gloria Dickie, Elizabeth Piper and Alexander Cornwell DUBAI (Reuters) - Physicians, activists and country representatives at this year's COP28 U.N. climate summit in Dubai have called for greater g...
Dec 03, 2023
Hillary Clinton at COP28 climate talks calls for insurance reform
By Elizabeth Piper and Valerie Volcovici DUBAI (Reuters) - Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on Sunday for reform of the insurance sector, where companies are increasingly withdraw...
Dec 03, 2023
Global regulators propose tougher scrutiny of voluntary carbon markets
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - A global securities watchdog proposed 21 safety measures on Sunday to improve integrity, transparency and enforcement in voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) in a sector of ...
Dec 03, 2023
Exclusive-Top development banks at COP28 vow to up climate game, quiet on fossil fuels – document
By Simon Jessop DUBAI (Reuters) - Ten of the world's top development banks pledged to step up their climate efforts at the COP28 summit, yet failed to say anything about halting financing for fossil f...
Dec 03, 2023
Pope urges world religions to unite against environmental devastation
DUBAI (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Sunday that it was essential for all world religions to unite in opposing the "rapacious" devastation of the environment. The 86-year-old pope had planned to pre...
Dec 03, 2023
Indonesia, ADB, owners agree to shutter first coal-fired power station early
By Simon Jessop and David Lawder DUBAI (Reuters) - Indonesia and the Asian Development Bank have agreed a provisional deal with the owners of the Cirebon-1 coal-fired power plant to shutter it almost ...
Dec 03, 2023
Explainer-How climate change is making the world sick
By Gloria Dickie DUBAI(Reuters) - Heat stress. Lung damage from wildfire smoke. The spread of disease-carrying mosquitoes into new regions as temperatures rise. These are just a few of the ways that p...
Dec 03, 2023
Trump calls on supporters to ‘guard the vote’ in Democratic-run US cities
By Nathan Layne CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (Reuters) - Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, told his supporters on Saturday to "go into" Philadelphia and two other Democra...
Dec 02, 2023
Philippines lifts tsunami alert after magnitude 7.4 earthquake
By Karen Lema and Neil Jerome Morales MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines lifted a tsunami alert early on Sunday as waves receded from a magnitude 7.4 earthquake that struck the south of the country, t...
Dec 02, 2023
