Thousands of firefighters are battling wildfires in Portugal, Spain and southwestern France, in the grip of a heatwave that shows no sign of easing. In northern Portugal, a pilot died when his waterbombing plane crashed in the Foz Coa area, near the Spanish border. Fires are ravaging areas of France’s…
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In the case of global warming, a few degrees make all the difference. The United Nations’ latest IPCC report emphasizes that the Earth is on a collision course with catastrophic climate change—that is unless, in line with the 2015 Paris Agreement, the global rise in temperatures can be limited to 1.5°C.…
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Thousands of residents in Sydney’s suburbs are ordered to evacuate amid torrential rains and the threat of flash floods. Thousands of residents have been ordered to evacuate southwest Sydney, Australia’s biggest city, with torrential rain and damaging winds pounding the east coast and floods expected to be worse than those…
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A spacecraft measuring Earth’s warming ‘greenhouse’ effect in its greatest ever detail will be built in the UK. The Forum satellite will be assembled by aerospace giant Airbus at its factory in Stevenage. It will monitor far-infrared radiation coming up from our planet’s surface. It’s this particular type of light…
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The government has ‘zero chance’ of reaching its tree planting targets, the UK’s forestry trade body has said. The UK government pledged in 2019 to reach 30,000 hectares (115 sq miles) of new planting by the end of 2024. During the financial year spanning 2021/2022 just under 14,000 hectares (54…
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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has lost some of its power to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The landmark ruling by the US Supreme Court represents a major setback to President Joe Biden’s climate plans. He called it a “devastating decision” but said it would not undermine his effort to…
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Masaya Maruyama, his wife Junko and his brother Koichi, were sitting under the tailgate of their work van, trying to find a tiny bit of shade, as they drank profusely from large bottles of orange soda. The family of plumbers had been out in the baking sun laying pipes since…
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