Environment

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: 06 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The loss of parks, playgrounds and other green spaces around London’s Euston station has emerged as a potentially decisive issue in the Holborn and St Pancras byelection, with residents expressing growing frustration over years of construction, redevelopment and uncertainty about what will replace the land that has disappeared. The constituency is preparing for a closely watched political contest...

Published: 05 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. A looming strike by more than 160 offshore oil workers in the North Sea could severely disrupt UK fuel supplies, according to the Unite union, which says industrial action has become unavoidable after pay negotiations with the US-based oil company Apache broke down. The potential dispute comes at an especially sensitive time for British consumers. Fuel prices have...

Published: 05 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The UK Conservative party is preparing to announce a sweeping programme of deregulation that would include abolishing the Environment Agency and Natural England, replacing existing affordable housing requirements and changing rules that govern the environmental impact of major developments. The proposals are being presented as part of a broader Conservative strategy to make economic growth, housebuilding and infrastructure...

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 The Green Party has called for the immediate return of Thames Water and South East Water to public ownership, with deputy leader Rachel Millward saying the companies should be taken over before Christmas and without compensation for shareholders or creditors. Millward made the proposal during the Green Party's autumn conference in Brighton on Saturday, placing water ownership and...

Published: 03 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from carrying out border wall and related infrastructure construction across the Big Bend region of west Texas, putting a halt to work that had generated opposition from environmental groups, local residents, landowners and politicians from both major US parties. US district judge Kathleen Cardone issued the preliminary injunction after...

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...