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'Sleep under the stars': hotel mess in Brazil ahead of UN meet

Sep 05, 2025 (AFP)

The owners had been hoping to cash in on the conference by filling all the rooms with foreign delegates. But the hotel's eye-watering initial rates -- a cool $1...

Drought forces drastic water restrictions in S. Korean city

Sep 05, 2025 (AFP)

President Lee Jae Myung last week declared the eastern city of Gangneung a national disaster area, and residents face water supply restrictions. The dry spell h...

Former federal workers bring back climate portal killed by Trump

Sep 03, 2025 (AFP)

By early summer, the climate.gov front page no longer existed -- the federal portal once billed as a "one-stop shop" for the public to understand global warming...

'Mockery of science': US experts blast Trump climate report

Sep 02, 2025 (AFP)

In a 440-page rebuttal, 85 scientists accused the government of relying on a handful of contrarians who drew on discredited studies, misrepresented evidence, an...

Ancient tombs unearthed in Iraq due to drought

Aug 30, 2025 (AFP)

The tombs, believed to be over 2,300 years old, were unearthed at the edges of the Mosul Dam reservoir in the Khanke region of Duhok province in the country's n...

ESA climate records support new global change assessment

Aug 26, 2025 (SPX)

Published annually since 2011 as a supplement to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, the State of the Climate provides a trusted benchmark of E...

Record drought in Europe, Mediterranean in early August: monitor

Aug 25, 2025 (AFP)

More than half of Europe and the Mediterranean basin was affected by drought in the first ten days of August, according to an AFP analysis on Monday of European...

Spain heatwave was 'most intense on record' as Fires ravage an ageing rural Spain

Aug 24, 2025 (AFP)

With forest fires still burning across northern and western Spain, the AEMET meteorological agency said provisional readings for the August 3-18 heatwave exceed...

Promise less, act more: Host Brazil's climate summit vow

Aug 12, 2025 (AFP)

Andre Correa do Lago sent a fifth open letter on Tuesday to the tens of thousands of COP30 delegates and observers invited to Belem, a port city of 1.3 million ...

Over half of Europe and Mediterranean basin hit by drought since April

Aug 12, 2025 (AFP)

Drought levels in the region are the highest on record for the month of July since data collection began in 2012, exceeding the 2012-2024 average by 21 percent....

Brazil COP30 climate summit lodging too pricey for some nations

Aug 08, 2025 (AFP)

"The 39 members of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) have continually expressed their concerns about the prohibitive costs associated with travelling ...

Hungarians protest with camels to raise alarm over drought

Aug 07, 2025 (AFP)

Hungary is considered one of the most vulnerable countries to drought in the European Union, as the world faces the effects of human-driven climate change, whic...

US to rewrite its past national climate reports

Aug 07, 2025 (AFP)

The decision, announced by Energy Secretary Chris Wright during a CNN appearance Tuesday night, follows the government's revocation of the Endangerment Finding,...

Summer 2025 already a cavalcade of climate extremes

Aug 04, 2025 (AFP)

Italy fines fast-fashion giant Shein for 'green' claims

Aug 04, 2025 (AFP)

The AGCM watchdog accuses the China-founded fast-fashion colossal of having "adopted a misleading communication strategy regarding the characteristics and envir...

US pushes to revoke scientific ruling that underpins climate regulations

Jul 29, 2025 (AFP)

Speaking at an auto dealership in Indianapolis, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin argued that the 2009 Endangerment Finding was based on ...

World court climate ruling: non-binding but game changing

Jul 25, 2025 (AFP)

An advisory opinion like the one issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) this week is not binding and so is not directly enforceable, but that does n...

Trump administration expected to say greenhouse gases aren't harmful

Jul 25, 2025 (AFP)

A proposal from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to change the so-called "Endangerment Finding" was sent to the White House on June 30, a spokesperson ...

Hundreds protest over water shortages in drought-hit Iraq

Jul 25, 2025 (AFP)

Iraq, and its 46 million inhabitants, have been intensely impacted by the effects of climate change, experiencing rising temperatures, year-on-year droughts and...

World's top court paves way for climate reparations

Jul 23, 2025 (AFP)

In a historic statement, the International Court of Justice said climate change was an "urgent and existential threat" and countries had a legal duty to prevent...