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Published: 28 November 2025 Friday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Mr Chung still hears the last words his wife said to him: “Hang in there.” Those words, spoken in panic as flames engulfed their 31-storey public housing block in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district, have echoed in his mind as the agonising hours have stretched into days. What began as a desperate phone call has turned into...

Published: 28 November 2025 Friday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Sri Lanka is reeling from one of its worst weather-related disasters in recent years, with at least 56 people dead and 21 missing after relentless rainfall triggered severe floods and landslides across the island. Entire towns have been inundated, key transport networks brought to a standstill, and thousands displaced as the country braces for even more extreme...

Published: 27 November 2025 Thursday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Australia is preparing the biggest overhaul of its environmental laws in decades, introducing sweeping reforms aimed at better protecting nature while supporting major projects in housing, renewable energy, and critical minerals. The Labor government reached a last-minute agreement with the Greens party after talks with the opposition stalled, allowing the changes to move forward. Key reforms include...

Published: 27 November 2025 Thursday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The toxic haze enveloping India’s capital, Delhi, is affecting millions, but it is the city’s children who are bearing the brunt of the escalating pollution crisis. Hospitals and clinics are reporting record numbers of young patients suffering from respiratory issues, leaving parents anxious and fearful for their children’s health. In Noida, a suburb near Delhi, the BBC...

Published: 26 November 2025 Wednesday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The Trump administration has taken a major step to roll back stricter limits on deadly soot pollution, a move that has drawn widespread criticism from environmental groups and public health advocates. The decision comes after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) filed a court motion challenging air quality standards introduced under the Biden administration in 2024. According to...

Published: 21 November 2025 Friday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Millions of households across the UK are set to face a small rise in gas and electricity bills at the start of January, according to the latest announcement from energy regulator Ofgem. The regulator has outlined a new energy price cap that will see variable tariffs in England, Wales, and Scotland increase by 0.2%, taking effect from...

Published: 20 November 2025 Thursday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Turkey is now poised to host the COP31 United Nations climate summit in 2026 after a rare and unexpected diplomatic compromise between Ankara and Canberra broke a long-standing deadlock. The decision, reached during intensive negotiations at COP30 in Belém, Brazil, marks one of the most unusual arrangements in the history of the UN climate process and has...

Published: 20November 2025 Thursday . The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Severe winter weather has caused significant disruption across North Yorkshire, with snow and ice prompting travel warnings and widespread delays. Police and local authorities have urged motorists to exercise extreme caution as the county grapples with hazardous road conditions, which have already led to vehicles becoming stranded and a number of blocked routes. The situation is particularly...

Published: 19 November 2025 Wednesday . The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online The African Union has declared 2025 as the “Year of Justice for Africans and People of African Descent through Reparations,” a symbolic but potent call to address historical and ongoing injustices. At the heart of this effort is a critical conversation on climate justice, which increasingly links the devastating impacts of climate change on Africa to...

Published: 19 November 2025 Wednesday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Councils across the West of England are increasingly unlikely to meet their self-imposed climate emergency targets, seven years after Bristol City Council made national headlines by becoming the first local authority in the UK to declare such an emergency. Despite ambitious commitments and some noticeable progress, new data and internal reports indicate that several councils are drifting...