U.S. Government shutdown prompts FAA to float flight cancellations as Senate talks continue (LINK) 6 November 2025

40 airports could be impacted by the FAA's capacity cuts and flight cancellations: including Atlanta, Dallas, New York City and Los Angeles — (LINK)

UK's Prince William announces Earthshot Prize 2025 winners in Rio ceremony: Winners include a project for making the Atlantic Forest financially viable and a global ocean treaty initiative (LINK) 6 November 2025

Takeaways from Trump's rocky Supreme Court arguments over global tariffs (LINK) 5 November 2025

— CNN: The Supreme Court appeared deeply concerned Wednesday with President Donald Trump's reliance on a vague federal law to impose global tariffs.

Politico: Democrats didn’t just rebound. They dominated. (LINK) 5 November 2025

— In Virginia, whose odd-year state elections are often seen as a bellwether ahead of midterms and presidential elections, Democrats flipped at least 13 seats in the House of Delegates. In the top races — the governorships in Virginia and New Jersey, as well as the New York mayoral — all Democrats cleared 50 percent support.

Democrats set historic records on election night. Here are six of the firsts they accomplished: (LINK) 4 November 2025

— First woman elected as Virginia governor: Democrat Abigail Spanberger, a former CIA operative and member of Congress
— First Muslim woman elected to statewide office in the US: Virginia state senator Ghazala Hashmi became the first Muslim American woman elected to statewide office anywhere in the country when she won Virginia’s lieutenant governor election
— First Muslim mayor of New York: 34-year-old progressive Zohran Mamdani
— First city or town to vote to divest from Israel: Somerville, Massachusetts
— First state to counter Republicans mid-cycle redistricting
— First woman elected mayor of Detroit: Detroit city council president Mary Sheffield

Still a chance to return to 1.5C climate goal, researchers say: Report calls for scaling-up of renewable energy and electrification of key sectors to limit peak of global heating (LINK) 6 November 2025

EU ministers agree to 90% emissions reduction by 2040 target (LINK) 5 November 2025

— Ministers battled over the degree to which carbon credits could be used to make up the reduction target. Credits allow nations to buy carbon reductions made elsewhere in projects all over the globe. While countries like Germany wanted to see only around 3% of the total offset globally through projects like reforestation or renewables, nations including France and Poland wanted to see more of the total covered by offsets, EU sources told DW.

U.S. Supreme Court questions legality of Trump’s tariffs (LINK) 5 November 2025

Bolivian Supreme Court annuls the right-wing leader Jeanine Anez's conviction and 10-year sentence for illegally assuming presidency after 2019 ouster of Evo Morales: "violations" of due process during her trial (LINK) 5 November 2025

Morocco has declared 31 October a national holiday to mark the day the UN Security Council voted in favour of a resolution backing its plan for the disputed Western Sahara region. (LINK) 5 November 2025

Bitcoin at make or break level as China suspends 24% tariff on U.S. goods (LINK) 5 November 2025

Sudan civil war spiralling out of control, UN secretary general says (LINK) 4 November 2025

UN: Nations well off-track of Paris climate agreement goals (LINK) 4 November 2025

— "“The bottom line is that nations have had three attempts to hit the mark with their Paris Agreement pledges, and each time they have landed off target,” says report.

Hurricane Melissa death toll rises to 43 in Haiti as aid pours in across the northern Caribbean: flooded nearly 12,000 homes (LINK) — ground.news: 37 media reports (LINK) 4 November 2025

— In Jamaica, the hurricane killed at least 32 people and caused an estimated $6 billion in damage The U.S. State Department has committed $24 million in disaster relief funding for the Caribbean islands.

Hurricane Melissa recovery: how airlines and travel brands are helping the Caribbean (LINK) 4 November 2025

Sudan's paramilitary kills at least 40 people as fighting spreads into Kordofan region (LINK) — ground.news: 22 media reports (LINK) 5 November 2025

Ukrainian drones reach deep inside Russia as battle for key city rages on (LINK) 4 November 2025

Powerful earthquake kills at least 20 people in northern Afghanistan (LINK) 3 November 2025

2017 Minamata Convention COP-6 opens in Geneva to strengthen global action on mercury pollution: 3-7 November (LINK) 3 November 2025

— COP-6 will consider measures to curb the illegal trade of mercury and strengthen control of its supply and compounds; review progress on artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM), which remains the largest source of global mercury emissions, and assess the enforcement of the ban on mercury-added skin-lightening products. Parties will also discuss a proposal to phase out dental amalgam, evaluate feasible mercury-free alternatives in vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) production, and examine updates to the Convention's financial mechanism, including guidance to the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the Specific International Programme (SIP).