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Seoul’s government announced plans on Wednesday to ban basement apartments in the South Korean national capital — a style of subterranean home depicted in the Oscar-winning film Parasite — after four people drowned to death in such apartments in recent days during record floods, the BBC reported.

A man was convicted of dumping straw on a Dutch road in one of the first cases stemming from widespread protests by farmers.

The Dutch farmers have unveiled plans to protest during the famed Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain) bicycle race later this month.

American solar energy companies are reportedly having difficulty complying with the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), a law that went into effect in June requiring importers to prove their goods are not tainted with slave labor from the oppressed Uyghur Muslims of China’s Xinjiang province. 

Dutch police have arrested two individuals who are suspected of dumping waste on one of the country’s highways during a farmer protest against EU green agenda rules.

Spanish populist party VOX has promised to take the government to court over any climate change policies they attempt to force on the regions.

Cuban authorities evacuated more than 4,000 residents over the weekend after a lightning strike allegedly sparked a fire at Cuba’s largest state oil depot in Matanzas city on Friday night, causing three oil tankers to burn and collapse as of Monday, the news website Cubanet reported.

Despite the ongoing energy crisis, climate crazies have launched a legal challenge aimed at preventing the construction of a new nuclear power plant in the UK.

Germany can’t close its nuclear plants quick enough, but France is working to keep theirs online, temporarily setting aside green rules.

A giant sinkhole in Chile that now measures approximately 160 feet wide and 656 feet deep has left authorities bewildered over how it got so huge.

Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker were spotted flying commercial amid backlash over celebrities and billionaires lecturing the Americans about climate change while flying private jets and having massive carbon footprints themselves.

The Vatican has named the former president of Greenpeace Italy to oversee the transition of Saint Peter’s Basilica to zero carbon emissions, Italian media reported Monday.

Intense rainfall caused flash flooding at Death Valley National Park, leaving around 1,000 people stranded over the weekend due to damaged roadways.

Climate change has impaired the ability of meteorologists to accurately predict severe weather events, according to the director of India Meteorological Department (IMD).

The Dutch farmers have characterised the first round of negotiations with Prime Minister Mark Rutte as disappointing, with some declaring “stronger” actions will follow the meeting.

A section of Beirut’s grain silos collapsed on Thursday, the same day that Lebanon marked the second anniversary of a deadly explosion at the Port of Beirut that devastated the city and damaged the very same grain silos, the National, a U.A.E.-based newspaper, reported.

West Virginia State Treasurer Riley Moore barred five banks last week from entering into state banking contracts due to policies they had adopted against financing fossil fuel projects. U.S. Bank — which was originally considered for inclusion on the Restricted Financial Institution List — has now reversed its policy, Moore told Breitbart News on Wednesday.

Dutch farmers once again took to the motorways to deploy flaming bales of hay as road blocks ahead of negotiations with the government.

Climate change alarmists are now blaming global warming for making the earth “spin faster” in their latest effort to convince people to lessen their output of carbon dioxide.

Democrats are continuing to push their radical climate agenda despite 9.1 percent inflation and high food and gas prices — an effort Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) contends signals last-minute desperation before a highly anticipated “red wave.”

Manchin’s bill would prohibit subsidies from going to electric vehicles powered by batteries with materials from China. Michigan’s Democrat Senator Debbie Stabenow is working to undermine that rule.

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is doing just fine with vast sections defying every forecast of impending doom made by climate catastrophists over the past 30 years, a report Thursday outlines.

Dutch farmers blocked a paper factory on Wednesday with their tractors to protest the double standards of the government’s green agenda.

A green agenda-loving candidate to become Britain’s next Prime Minister is under fire from her fellow climate crazies for flying to leadership debates via helicopter.

German state television has been accused of editing in black clouds of smoke over a nuclear power station in a report on the ongoing energy crisis.

An electric Jaguar I-Pace vehicle caught on fire and burned to ash in Florida, but the vehicle wasn’t in a car wreck like many notorious Tesla fires — it was simply charging in the owner’s garage.

Police were filmed forcefully cracking down on a protest from a Dutch farmer group over the removal of an anti-government mural.

In a demonstration of Germany’s “green energy” agenda failures, a coal-fired power plant will be reconnected to the electricity grid.

Left-wing pop star Taylor Swift was seen hiding under an umbrella while getting off her private jet in Burbank, California, just days before she was named one of the top celebrities responsible for worst CO2 emissions.

The controversial megayacht of Amazon’s climate crazy tsar Jeff Bezos appears to have avoided egging while sneaking through Rotterdam.

South China Morning Post (SCMP) North American bureau chief Robert Delaney published a bizarre editorial on Tuesday in which he suggested a war between America and China, sparked by Beijing making good on its threat of a military response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) visit to Taiwan, could be even better than the coronavirus pandemic for reducing the world’s carbon footprint to fight climate change.

Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro announced his intentions last week to build a series of large-scale luxury tourism complexes on La Tortuga, one of the nation’s uninhabited islands.

Recent polling has found that the majority of Conservative Party voters want the government’s Net Zero agenda halted.

A representative for Taylor Swift has defended the left-wing pop icon in the face of climate activists raging over her reported 170 private jet flights this year alone, claiming that the “Shake It Off” singer regularly loans the plane out to other people.

The Biden administration has told New Mexico forest fire victims to cover certain damage expenses for a forest fire that the U.S. Government started, Reuters reported. 

A large blaze called the McKinney Fire has erupted near the California-Oregon border, and had reached over 55,000 acres, with 0% containment, according to authorities.