The World Cup must pay its carbon bill
Football’s biggest tournament should fund a serious plan to measure, reduce and account for its emissions.

Football’s biggest tournament should fund a serious plan to measure, reduce and account for its emissions.





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A 21-year-old man was pulled alive from the rubble of an apartment building in La Guaira, Venezuela.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 struck Yibin in China’s southwest province of Sichuan shortly on Monday.
Temperatures reached 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in parts of Europe on Sunday.
Experts say the climate crisis is making Europe’s heatwaves more frequent and more intense.

Footage shows the aftermath of Israeli forces setting olive trees on fire in the small Palestinian village of Rummanah.
France struggles with extreme heat and power grid challenges as temperature records also smashed in parts of UK, Spain.
Khalil spent more than two decades protecting the nests of endangered turtle species in southern Lebanon.
Australia confirmed its first mainland H5N1 bird flu case in a seabird near Esperance, WA.
From lakes to rivers, freshwater is declining worldwide under rising climate and land pressure.
US Department of Justice claims NAACP lawsuit threatens ‘national, economic, and energy security’.