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US Senate adopts sweeping climate and health plan, in major victory for Biden
Aug 07, 2022 (AFP)
Voting as a unified bloc and with the tie-breaking vote cast by Vice President Kamala Harris, Democrats approved the $430-billion spending plan, which will go t...
France orders crisis task force over 'historic' drought
Aug 05, 2022 (AFP)
Water restrictions have already been ordered in nearly all of France's 96 mainland departments, with 62 at the highest alert level, and the Meteo-France weather...
US Senate to begin debating Biden's climate and health bill
Aug 05, 2022 (AFP)
The bill, a trimmed version of President Joe Biden's campaign promise, earmarks nearly $370 billion for clean energy projects and climate initiatives, as well a...
Dutch declare shortage in 'land of water'
Aug 03, 2022 (AFP)
The Dutch government said it was eyeing further measures to conserve water amid a drought, and authorities have already imposed limits on farming and shipping. ...
Scientists call for more research into 'climate endgame'
Aug 02, 2022 (AFP)
Climate models that can predict the extent of global warming depending on greenhouse gas emissions are increasingly sophisticated and provide policymakers with ...
Alarm as Earth hits 'Overshoot Day' Thursday: NGOs
Jul 27, 2022 (AFP)
The date -- dubbed "Earth Overshoot Day" -- marks a tipping point when people have used up "all that ecosystems can regenerate in one year", according to the Gl...
France on course for driest July on record: weather office
Jul 27, 2022 (AFP)
"The month of July will very likely be the driest July ever recorded since 1959," spokesman Christian Veil from Meteo-France told AFP. On average, just eight mm...
France struggles with drought over punishing summer of heat
Jul 26, 2022 (AFP)
Like much of western Europe, the country is going through a punishing hot season of record temperatures and forest fires that have led to renewed focus on clima...
Switzerland sees freezing point climb to record high above Alpine summits
Jul 25, 2022 (AFP)
Scientists say human-induced climate change is amplifying the record heatwaves seen in several parts of the planet in recent weeks. Weather balloons rose to 5,1...
Battered by climate change, Latin America must brace for worse: report
Jul 22, 2022 (AFP)
In its State of the Climate report for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) for 2021, the WMO said ecosystems, food and water, human health and welfare were al...
Most countries 'woefully unprepared' for changing climate: analysis
Jul 21, 2022 (AFP)
While developing nations of Africa and Southeast Asia are predicted to be worst hit by higher temperatures, extreme weather and sea-level rise, some middle-inco...
Glacial microclimates mimic climate change
Jul 21, 2022 (SPX)
Hiking in snowy mountains or trudging by a snowbank on the sidewalk, you may have felt a cool pocket of air near a pile of snow. Trees near glaciers experience ...
Biden vows climate action as heat waves slam US, Europe
Jul 20, 2022 (AFP)
Summer heat waves have highlighted the threat, with 100 million people in the United States under excessive heat alerts, and devastating record temperatures cau...
Climate protesters block UK's busiest motorway after heatwave
Jul 20, 2022 (AFP)
Members of the group Just Stop Oil climbed gantries over the M25 arterial motorway, causing police to intervene and vehicles to back up for several miles (kilom...
Climate deniers sow weather-map heatwave misinfo
Jul 19, 2022 (AFP)
During the two recent heatwaves in Europe, users in various countries and languages misleadingly juxtaposed weather maps, sometimes taken from different media o...
War must not stop climate fight as German weather disaster costs mount
Jul 18, 2022 (AFP)
Speaking at the annual informal Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said leaders were working hard to stay "on trac...
Climate change's fingerprints on ever hotter heatwaves
Jul 18, 2022 (AFP)
- Humans to blame - "Every heatwave that we are experiencing today has been made hotter and more frequent because of human induced climate change," said Frieder...
Nearly half of EU territory 'at risk' of drought
Jul 18, 2022 (AFP)
In a report for July, the European Commission's Joint Research Centre said that 46 percent of the EU's territory was exposed to warning-level drought, with 11 p...
Uganda says several dead 'because of hunger' in northeast
Jul 14, 2022 (AFP)
The Ugandan prime minister's office on Thursday did not provide exact figures for the number of deaths in Karamoja region. More than half a million people are g...
Mexico declares drought emergency
Jul 13, 2022 (AFP)
The steps are designed to deal with the effects of a "severe, extreme or exceptional" drought, the national water authority Conagua said in a statement Tuesday....
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