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Brazilian court debates fracking for oil and gas
Sep 10, 2026 (AFP)
A high Brazilian court began debating Wednesday whether to authorize fracking for shale oil and gas deposits, an extraction technique for hard-to-reach reserves...
Hottest June to August period on record for 1.3 billion people: AFP analysis of Copernicus data
Sep 10, 2026 (AFP)
Some 1.3 billion people worldwide this year experienced the hottest June to August period on record, according to an AFP analysis of meteorological data from th...
75 percent chance of 'historic' El Nino this year: US agency
Sep 10, 2026 (AFP)
The US weather agency said Thursday that the El Nino pattern in the Pacific was strengthening and there was a 75 percent chance it would reach "historic" intens...
August hottest month ever recorded globally as huge El Nino emerges
Sep 10, 2026 (AFP)
Europe's climate monitor said Thursday that August was the hottest month ever recorded around the world and warned of worse to come, as an unprecedented El Nino...
August hottest month ever recorded globally as huge El Nino emerges
Sep 10, 2026 (AFP)
Europe's climate monitor said Thursday that August was the hottest month ever recorded around the world and warned of worse to come, as an unprecedented El Nino...
Portugal harvests grapes at night to beat the heat
Sep 10, 2026 (AFP)
Equipped with headlamps and pruning shears, a team of farm workers navigate pitch-black darkness during a nocturnal grape harvest that shields them from Portuga...
Girls worst hit by climate shocks on schools: Unicef
Sep 10, 2026 (AFP)
Girls are at greater risk of dropping out of education when their schools are hit by heatwaves, storms or wildfires linked to climate change, the UN children's ...
Evacuations in Malibu after waves open sinkhole at Nicolas Cage's house
Sep 09, 2026 (AFP)
People living in an upmarket coastal stretch of Malibu were under an evacuation order Wednesday after a giant sinkhole opened up on the driveway of a beachfront...
The round-the-clock monitors protecting Bhutan from glacier risk
Sep 09, 2026 (AFP)
In a humble control room a few hours from Bhutan's capital, a team works around the clock to monitor the risks of the Himalayan country's rapidly melting glacie...
Heat forces French champagne makers to stiffen their drink
Sep 09, 2026 (AFP)
Drinking this year's champagne might give you a heftier headache as France's record heatwaves are forcing some producers to up the alcohol levels, industry offi...
'Alarm bells ringing': US summer heat shatters record
Sep 09, 2026 (AFP)
The United States has endured its hottest summer on record, a new peak that scientists said should send alarm bells ringing over the increasingly dire impacts o...
'Alarm bells ringing': US summer heat shatters record
Sep 09, 2026 (AFP)
The contiguous United States has endured its hottest summer on record, a new peak that scientists said should send alarm bells ringing over the increasingly dir...
US had warmest summer on record: climate agency
Sep 09, 2026 (AFP)
The contiguous United States endured its hottest summer since modern records began, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Wednesday, in the l...
Spain endured hottest summer on record: weather agency
Sep 09, 2026 (AFP)
Mainland Spain endured its hottest summer since records began in 1961, with an unprecedented 61 heatwave days across June, July and August, national weather age...
On London's Brick Lane, a data centre sparks local battle
Sep 08, 2026 (AFP)
In Brick Lane, the historic heart of London's Bangladeshi community, residents oppose plans for a data centre in a disused brewery, citing the erosion of herita...
Police clash with protesters against Trump-linked Albania project
Sep 08, 2026 (AFP)
Police clashed with protesters on Tuesday outside parliament as MPs returned from their summer recess in Albania, where a tourism project linked to the Trump fa...
Flights resume gradually in Indonesia after volcanic eruption
Sep 08, 2026 (AFP)
Major airports in Indonesia reopened on Tuesday days after a volcanic eruption had grounded flights, with authorities saying normal operations would resume grad...
Five baby orangutans found in India, trafficking suspected
Sep 08, 2026 (AFP)
Indian officials rescued five baby orangutans in an eastern forest on Tuesday, a state minister said, with authorities suspecting they were trafficked into the ...
Pounding waves open up sinkhole in swanky Malibu
Sep 08, 2026 (AFP)
Pounding surf lashing the swanky California enclave of Malibu on Tuesday opened up a giant sinkhole on the driveway of a house reportedly belonging to US actor ...
Kauai on tornado watch as Hurricane Lowell nears Hawaiian islands
Sep 08, 2026 (AFP)
Residents of Kauai were warned to watch for tornadoes late Monday as Hurricane Lowell edged toward the westernmost Hawaiian islands in the US Pacific island cha...
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