Climate Change

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Scientists who place strong faith in technology as the primary answer to the climate crisis may be less likely to take direct action themselves, according to a major international study examining how researchers view climate solutions and personal responsibility. The research suggests that scientists who believe technological progress will largely resolve the problems created by climate change are...

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online New Zealand is facing an increasingly severe climate challenge as greenhouse gas concentrations reach record levels and temperatures continue to rise, raising the prospect of more frequent heatwaves, destructive storms, worsening droughts and potentially catastrophic losses of the country's glaciers. A new government assessment of New Zealand's atmosphere and climate has highlighted mounting pressures across the country's natural...

Published: 06 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Plans for a major datacentre at Drax’s North Yorkshire power station have come under renewed environmental scrutiny after campaigners estimated that the facility could be responsible for around 8.6 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions each year if it operates at its proposed scale. The analysis suggests the planned project could generate almost twice the annual carbon emissions...

Published: 06 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Across Argentina, a growing movement of environmental activists, Indigenous communities, workers and human rights campaigners is challenging President Javier Milei’s efforts to loosen restrictions on foreign ownership of land and expand opportunities for international investment in the country’s vast reserves of water, minerals, forests and energy resources. For protesters, the dispute is about far more than property rights....

Published: 05 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has arrived in Fiji for a major preparatory meeting ahead of the United Nations climate summit, but the effort to bring wider international attention to the Pacific’s climate emergency has faced a disappointing start, with only a small number of leaders from outside the region accepting an invitation to travel to Tuvalu. Albanese...

Published: 05 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Britain is facing growing risks to its food supply but lacks a comprehensive national plan for feeding the population during a major crisis, according to a warning from more than 150 academics, business leaders, community organisations and food-sector experts. The experts have urged the government to treat food security as a matter of national security, warning that climate...

Published: 05 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Residents living on the rural outskirts of Istanbul have spent years enduring an unpleasant smell that regularly descends over their villages, forcing families to close their windows even during the hottest nights of summer. The source, they say, is the enormous Silivri municipal landfill, where food and other organic waste decomposes and releases gases into the surrounding environment....

Published: 03 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online British farmers are facing the country’s most serious bluetongue outbreak on record, with confirmed cases in the current season already exceeding the combined total recorded across the previous three seasons. The rapidly expanding disease has reached livestock farms in Scotland for the first time this summer and has been detected as far north as Aberdeenshire, raising fresh concerns...

Published: 03 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Bangkok is facing one of its most severe flooding crises in years after relentless rainfall transformed large parts of Thailand’s capital into vast stretches of stagnant water, overwhelming drainage systems, disrupting transport and forcing thousands of residents into emergency shelters. Around 40 people have died in flood-related incidents, according to the Thai government, with drowning and accidental electrocution...

Published: 02 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Green Party leader Zack Polanski has said his position as leader of the Green Party of England and Wales does not depend on the outcome of next week’s Holborn and St Pancras by-election, where he is seeking to win the parliamentary seat previously held by former prime minister Keir Starmer. Polanski described the contest as being extremely close,...