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Spanish PM due to visit flood zone as rain relents
Feb 06, 2026 (AFP)
Weather forecasters warned the relief would be short-lived because another storm was expected to pour heavy rain on already saturated ground on Saturday. Portug...
Sweden acquits activists who smeared paint on Monet painting
Dec 08, 2025 (AFP)
The incident occurred on June 14, 2023 when two women dipped their hands in paint and glued their hands to "The Artist's Garden at Giverny", painted by French i...
Philippines evacuates hundreds of thousands as super typhoon nears
Nov 09, 2025 (AFP)
The super typhoon, which comes just days after another storm ravaged the country, was working its way west with winds of 185 kilometres (115 miles) per hour nea...
Death of a delta: Pakistan's Indus sinks and shrinks
Aug 05, 2025 (AFP)
Seawater intrusion into the delta, where the Indus River meets the Arabian Sea in the south of the country, has triggered the collapse of farming and fishing co...
Rufus Wainwright's 'Dream Requiem' explores catastrophe and redemption
May 05, 2025 (AFP)
The artist's ambitious modern-day requiem, which draws inspiration from the 19th-century catastrophe as well as the Requiem Mass, will premiere stateside on Sun...
Severe cyclone builds near Australia's western mining hub
Feb 13, 2025 (AFP)
Government forecasters said Cyclone Zelia was expected to build into a category five system -- the strongest on the scale -- before making landfall on Friday af...
USAID freeze threatens millions in Latin America
Feb 13, 2025 (AFP)
They warn that millions of people will be affected in particular by the dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), responsible for coun...
At least three killed as Cyclone Chido crosses Mozambique
Dec 15, 2024 (AFP)
The cyclone slammed into Mozambique's northern coastal provinces of Nampula and Cabo Delgado early Sunday, damaging buildings and knocking out power to some are...
Indonesia volcano belches colossal ash tower
Nov 07, 2024 (AFP)
Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki erupted on Monday and Tuesday, killing nine people and forcing the relocation of residents from a 7-kilometre (4.3-mile) exclusion zone...
Egyptian geese spread wings in France, threatening biodiversity
Oct 16, 2024 (AFP)
Recognisable by the brown eye markings that distinguish them from other geese, the birds are putting their fellow water birds to flight and tormenting holidayma...
Air pollution linked to 135 million premature deaths: study
Jun 10, 2024 (AFP)
Weather phenomena like El Nino and the Indian Ocean Dipole worsened the effects of these pollutants by intensifying their concentration in the air, Singapore's ...
Three dead, four missing after floods snare cars in southern France
Mar 10, 2024 (AFP)
A family of four, including two children aged four and 13, was caught in the floods Saturday evening while trying to drive across a bridge evening over the rive...
2023 set to be hottest year on record: UN
Nov 30, 2023 (AFP)
The UN's World Meteorological Organization warned that 2023 had shattered a whole host of climate records, with extreme weather leaving "a trail of devastation ...
EU lawmakers endorse Dutch ex-FM for climate post
Oct 04, 2023 (AFP)
MEPs on the environment committee also gave the green light to Slovakia's commissioner Maros Sefcovic to oversee the ambitious climate pact known as the Europea...
India sees hottest, driest August since records began
Sep 01, 2023 (AFP)
August falls in the middle of India's annual monsoon, a season that usually brings up to 80 percent of the country's yearly rainfall. Heavy downpours brought de...
'Every drop counts': Spain's crops thrive on wastewater
Jun 21, 2023 (AFP)
"Here the water is still dirty... but by the end, it will be crystal clear and bacteria-free," said Carlos Lardin, operations manager at Esamur, the public body...
Indonesia's Merapi volcano erupts, covers villages in ash
Mar 11, 2023 (AFP)
There were no immediate reports of casualties, the country's disaster mitigation agency said. Images broadcast on local outlet Kompas TV showed ash-covered hous...
Rights groups decry 'repressive' jail term for Australia's activist
Dec 12, 2022 (AFP)
Lamenting "increasing repression", groups including Amnesty International and workers unions signed an open letter slamming the jailing of "peaceful climate act...
Smog-hit Pakistan city cuts school days to protect pupils
Dec 07, 2022 (AFP)
Hospitals have warned of an influx of patients suffering from breathing problems as well as eye and throat irritation as a result of the grey blanket of smog th...
US company turns air pollution into fuel, bottles and dresses
Dec 02, 2022 (AFP)
The concoction includes billions of hungry bacteria, specialized to feed on polluted air -- the first step in a recycling system that converts greenhouse gases ...
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