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Record July heat in regions home to 900 mn people: AFP analysis
Aug 10, 2026 (AFP)
Regions home to around 900 million people experienced their hottest July on record in 2026, including in the Sahel, Central America, France and Spain, according...
Energy transition threatens to wipe Dutch village from map
Aug 10, 2026 (AFP)
Residents of Moerdijk, a small Dutch port village that survived WWII bombing and subsequent flooding, are facing a new existential challenge: the threat of bein...
Western Europe experienced hottest June-July on record: EU monitor
Aug 10, 2026 (AFP)
Western Europe experienced its hottest June-July on record as climate change fuels an historic summer of heat, drought and wildfires across the region, the EU's...
Pakistan brickmakers scorched by sun above and fire below
Aug 10, 2026 (AFP)
As dark plumes billow from overhead smokestacks, brickmakers at a kiln in Pakistan's Sheikhupura district crush coal through small holes beneath their feet into...
Record July heat in regions home to 900 mn people: AFP analysis
Aug 10, 2026 (AFP)
Regions home to around 900 million people experienced their hottest July on record in 2026, including in the Sahel, Central America, France and Spain, according...
Europe braces for another summer heatwave
Aug 10, 2026 (AFP)
Much of Europe is bracing for yet another heatwave following periods of scorching temperatures that have driven rivers to record lows, ignited historic forest f...
Parts of Germany's Rhine could become unnavigable, group warns
Aug 10, 2026 (AFP)
Parts of the Rhine river in Germany could soon become unnavigable as water levels drop further due to soaring summer temperatures and low rainfall, an industry ...
Days of heavy rain leave at least 16 dead in Philippines
Aug 10, 2026 (AFP)
Floods, landslides and accidents driven by a nine-day downpour equivalent to more than a month's worth of rain in some areas have killed at least 16 people in t...
Europe braces for another summer heatwave
Aug 10, 2026 (AFP)
Much of Europe is bracing for yet another scorching heatwave following periods of record drought that have driven rivers to historic lows, ignited historic fore...
July was Spain's hottest month on record: weather agency
Aug 10, 2026 (AFP)
July was mainland Spain's joint-hottest month since records began in 1961, national weather agency AEMET said on Monday, after high temperatures fuelled the cou...
Europe braces for another summer heatwave
Aug 10, 2026 (AFP)
Much of Europe is bracing for yet another heatwave following periods of scorching temperatures that have driven rivers to record lows, ignited historic forest f...
US had hottest month on record in July: agency
Aug 10, 2026 (AFP)
July 2026 marked the hottest month on record for the contiguous United States, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday.
Indonesia closes national park as wildfire spreads
Aug 09, 2026 (AFP)
Indonesian authorities have closed access to a national park on Java Island as firefighters battle a wildfire raging there for nearly a week.
Afghanistan's gold rush upends lives and landscapes
Aug 09, 2026 (AFP)
In Afghanistan's northeastern Badakhshan province, dozens of excavators operate day and night to extract gold from the mountains where villagers and their lives...
Amazon behind massive private gas plant for new data centers
Aug 08, 2026 (AFP)
Amazon confirmed Friday it is financing a massive, private gas power plant in Texas that could become the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in t...
Nocturnal 'coffee frog' discovered in Costa Rica
Aug 08, 2026 (AFP)
A tiny greenish, noctural frog that thrives in coffee plantations has been discovered in the Costa Rica's central Pacific region, where it also faces risks from...
Etna ash suspends arrivals at Italy's Catania airport
Aug 08, 2026 (AFP)
Mount Etna, one of the world's most active volcanoes, belched smoke and ashes in a new eruption on Saturday, forcing the suspension of arrivals at a nearby airp...
Rugby player in Japan dies of suspected 'severe heatstroke': club
Aug 08, 2026 (AFP)
A Fijian rugby player with a Japanese professional team has died after being taken to hospital with "symptoms consistent with severe heatstroke", Saimoni Vunila...
Empty beaches and 'unbearable stench': Mexico wages war on sargassum weeds
Aug 08, 2026 (AFP)
A small skiff moves through a stinking carpet of sargassum, dragging what looks like a threshing machine through the brown, floating seaweed choking the normall...
Canada tries to adapt to a future of wildfires
Aug 08, 2026 (AFP)
Faced with another summer when wildfires have scorched millions of hectares of land and blankets of smoke have disrupted daily life nationwide, Canada is trying...
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