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France wildfires burn twice as much land as last year: official
Jul 10, 2026 (AFP)
Wildfires have scorched twice as much land in France so far this year as in the same period last year, an official said on Friday.
Intense sand and dust storms struck China, US in 2025: UN
Jul 10, 2026 (AFP)
China and the southern United States were hit last year by some of the worst sand and dust storms in decades, the United Nations said Friday.
US pushes for weaker truck pollution rules
Jul 09, 2026 (AFP)
President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday moved to loosen truck pollution regulations put in place by his predecessor Joe Biden, in its latest environ...
King in shades braves heat to visit London zoo
Jul 09, 2026 (AFP)
Britain's head of state King Charles III on Thursday donned sunglasses as he braved a heatwave to visit penguins and a giant tortoise at London Zoo.
Microsoft emissions surge 27% as AI buildout crimps climate goals
Jul 09, 2026 (AFP)
Microsoft's greenhouse gas emissions jumped 27 percent in its latest fiscal year, the tech giant disclosed Thursday, adding to a wave of worsening environmental...
Strengthening El Nino likely to 'rank among largest' on record: US agency
Jul 09, 2026 (AFP)
The El Nino weather pattern picked up strength over the past month and is highly likely to "rank among the largest" ever recorded when it peaks between October ...
UK sets record for number of days over 34C
Jul 09, 2026 (AFP)
The UK on Thursday experienced its eighth day in 2026 with the mercury climbing above 34C, the Met Office said, breaking the previous record by one day.
Western Europe records its hottest June as heatwaves surge: EU monitor
Jul 09, 2026 (AFP)
Western Europe experienced its hottest June on record last month as a searing heatwave swept across a continent facing increasingly frequent and intense heat ex...
Two thirds of EU faced harmful ozone levels during heatwave: report
Jul 09, 2026 (AFP)
Two thirds of the European Union's population may have been exposed to harmful levels of ozone pollution during last month's record-breaking heatwave, a report ...
Western Europe experienced its hottest June on record: EU monitor
Jul 09, 2026 (AFP)
Western Europe experienced its hottest June on record as a searing heatwave swept across a continent facing increasingly frequent and intense heat extremes, the...
Protecting the protectors: racing to save Philippine mangroves
Jul 09, 2026 (AFP)
Standing knee-deep in coastal waters, environmentalist Andrea Pimentel guides workers as they drive bamboo poles into the seabed to block sediment from choking ...
Sensors, early starts: how Spain keeps working when heat hits
Jul 08, 2026 (AFP)
The morning sun beats down on Antonio Reina as he tends to a public garden in Barcelona, but he works reassured that a simple wristband protects him in the summ...
UK museums at 'sharp end' of climate change challenge
Jul 08, 2026 (AFP)
As visitors peered at skeletons and preserved animals in a London zoological museum during a UK heatwave, staff focused on a different attraction: a computer sc...
Sunken wrecks, hot seas threaten fishermen on Italian isle
Jul 08, 2026 (AFP)
Once the beating heart of this Italian island community, fishermen on Lampedusa are under pressure on multiple fronts, from nets ripped by sunken migrant wrecks...
Artificial cloud brightening could tame El Nino, but with risks: study
Jul 08, 2026 (AFP)
A brewing "Super" El Nino cycle is poised to unleash heat waves, floods and drought worldwide, with the effects amplified by long term human-caused climate chan...
The Channel hit by 'extreme' heatwave: UK forecaster
Jul 08, 2026 (AFP)
Sea surface water temperatures in the Channel between Britain and France have reached "extreme" levels, the UK weather service told AFP Wednesday, after England...
In Mauritania, Imraguen people's desert-ocean paradise under threat
Jul 08, 2026 (AFP)
Since he was old enough to climb into a boat, Samata Mahmoud has been fishing the vast, dune-lined waters of Mauritania's Banc d'Arguin bay, living a centuries-...
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