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Many of the world’s leaders are gathered in Dubai for COP28, the annual United Nations summit on climate change. Some 2,400km (1,500 miles) to the West, meanwhile, Israel’s war on Gaza is raging.

Sultan Al Jaber, the oil executive who is leading the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, sent shockwaves through the gathering by claiming in the days before the UN-backed talks that there is “no science” that says phasing out fossil fuels is necessary to keep global warming under a critical threshold — comments Al Jaber said were misinterpreted.

In a significant stride towards a more sustainable and circular fashion industry, the Fashion for Good initiative has unveiled a groundbreaking toolkit designed to harness the untapped potential of textile waste in India. This milestone follows the successful completion of the organization's "Sorting for Circularity India" pilot project, which brought together a powerful coalition of industry players to explore new sorting technologies and closed-loop systems.

More than 20 international scientists put forth a plan today to encourage world leaders to put human health at the center of global plastic treaty negotiations taking place this week in Nairobi, Kenya.

Australia faces an increased risk of bushfires during the approaching summer, authorities warned on Thursday, with the El Nino weather pattern expected to generate hotter and drier conditions across large swathes of the country.

Restricting factory farming should play a key role in efforts to cut climate-warming greenhouse gases, an environmental charity said on Wednesday, as emissions from "food systems" emerge as a major focus of COP28 climate talks in Dubai starting Thursday.

BP is embarking on a new chapter in its clean energy transition by investing in offshore wind power. In order to support this effort, the company has announced a global hiring spree in the field of renewable energy.

Ecologists from Mexico’s National Autonomous university on Friday relaunched a fundraising campaign to bolster conservation efforts for axolotls, an iconic, endangered fish-like type of salamander.

Algae living within the soft tissue of coral supply much of the energy needed by their hosts, and some symbiotic algae help coral withstand warmer water better than others. In a recently published study led by the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, researchers found that there was a tradeoff for corals dominated by the thermally sensitive algae—they have higher growth, but only in cooler water. 

Iran's oil minister Javad Owji has said that this country's oil production will reach 3.6 million barrels per day (bpd) up to the end of the current Iranian calendar year (ends on March 20, 2024).