Environment
At COP30 in Belém, Brazil, leaders warned the world was failing to meet Paris climate targets and called for immediate, concrete action as the summit opened.
China's rapid expansion of green energy positioned Beijing as an emerging climate leader at COP30 in Brazil, even as experts cautioned rare-earth dependence and heavy-industry decarbonisation challenges.
UN deputy secretary-general and leading climate scientists said the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C goal was effectively lost and called for remaking emissions targets while preserving the accord.
Iran experienced its worst drought in decades, with 15 provinces receiving no autumn rain and over 16 million people facing taps running dry as reservoirs and groundwater fell, media reported.
National forecasters in France and Greece issued forecasts for Tuesday, Nov. 11, predicting calm, dry conditions across much of France and a new wave of storms and cooling in Greece.
Lower Austria authorities eased rules allowing "problem" wolves to be shot after first approaching settlements or following attacks on protected livestock.
Powerful waves on Tenerife killed one woman and injured several people, including German and French tourists, after authorities said beach closures and warnings were ignored.
Super-typhoon Fung-Wong hit the Philippines, forcing more than one million people to evacuate and triggering widespread flooding and landslides across Luzon, the second storm in a week.
