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Factbox-Wildfires Breaking Out Across the World
Date: August 5, 2022
(Reuters) – Extreme fires have swallowed up huge swathes of land, destroyed homes and threatened livelihoods across the world in the first half of 2022. Below is a list of the bigger blazes – once relatively rare events that scientists say have become increasingly frequent and fierce, fuelled by heat waves, droughts and the growing...
Toyota Unit Falsified Emissions Data From at Least 2003, Probe Finds
Date: August 2, 2022
By Satoshi Sugiyama TOKYO (Reuters) -A major affiliate of Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp falsified emissions data on some engines going back to at least 2003, more than a decade earlier than previously indicated, a company-commissioned probe showed on Tuesday. The investigative committee tasked by truck and bus maker Hino Motors Ltd blamed the scandal on...
In Canada’s North, Environment-Minded Pope to Get Climate Change Close-Up
Date: July 28, 2022
By Rod Nickel IQALUIT, Nunavut (Reuters) – Pope Francis’s upcoming visit to Canada’s Arctic territory of Nunavut draws attention to a focal point for global climate change, with sea ice disappearing fast and permafrost thawing. Francis, who arrives in the capital Iqaluit of predominantly indigenous Nunavut on Friday, is in Canada to apologize in person...
Exclusive-Glaciers Vanishing at Record Rate in Alps Following Heatwaves
Date: July 26, 2022
By Emma Farge and Gloria Dickie MORTERATSCH GLACIER, Switzerland (Reuters) – From the way 45-year-old Swiss glaciologist Andreas Linsbauer bounds over icy crevasses, you would never guess he was carrying 10 kg of steel equipment needed to chart the decline of Switzerland’s glaciers. Normally, he heads down this path on the massive Morteratsch Glacier in...
Is ‘Greenwashing’ Creeping Into Procurement Departments?
Date: July 22, 2022
By Max Kent,Vice President of Global Procurement at Compleat Software, the purchase to pay software house ‘Greenwashing’ is the not so new phrase coined by environmentalist, Jay Westerveld, in the 1980s when he claimed the hotel industry falsely promoted the reuse of towels, as part of a broader environmental strategy, when, in fact, the act...
Britain Counts Cost of Historic Heatwave as 13 Die
Date: July 20, 2022
By Kate Holton and William James LONDON (Reuters) -At least 13 people have died in Britain while swimming during a spell of record-breaking hot weather that sparked wildfires, damaged train tracks and triggered warnings that efforts to tackle climate change needed to be stepped up. The London Fire Brigade endured its busiest day since World...