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Taiwan said it met its annual target for fine particulate pollution in 2025, but officials warned that worsening ozone pollution linked to climate change poses a growing challenge, prompting plans to tighten controls on products that emit volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The environment ministry said the island’s average PM2.5 concentration in 2025 was 12.6 micrograms per cubic metre, below its…

A global crisis  The loss of US support has not only wiped out programmes that helped people access healthcare, education and jobs, but also hit initiatives seeking to change laws that still criminalise LGBTQ+ individuals in 65 countries. In the Pacific region, where six island nations still have laws banning same-sex relations, a programme funded by USAID, the now-extinct US aid agency, that…

 As wildfires driven by climate change are spurring efforts to build homes with fire-safe materials, the dangers of the use of plastic in construction needs more recognition, experts say. Plastic in both the exteriors and interiors of homes burns far hotter than do traditional building materials such as wood or other natural products. That poses not only increased fire danger, but the burning…

Japan has decided to abolish an environmental tax imposed on car purchases as part of a broader overhaul of auto-related taxation, a move welcomed by the automotive industry, but environmental groups warn it would weaken incentives for cleaner vehicles. The environmental performance levy, introduced in 2019 after a previous automobile acquisition tax was scrapped, imposes up to 3 per cent of the…

Yet food is still rarely treated as strategic. Governments focus more on energy security or trade routes than on staple grain flows or school meals, while the wider costs of agrifood systems – from malnutrition to environmental damage – are estimated at roughly US$12 trillion a year.  Financing continues to fall short of this scale of risk. In 2025, price volatility, export limits and fertiliser…

The study, published in Nature, is the most comprehensive analysis yet of the global hydrogen cycle, showing how the gas moves between the atmosphere, land and ocean. Hydrogen has long been recognised as a clean alternative to fossil fuels and an important component of the green energy transition. However, while hydrogen is not itself a greenhouse gas, rising emissions are “supercharging” the…