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Deadly California storm brings unrelenting rain, f...
A powerful storm lashing California on Monday has left at least three people dead and caused devastating mudslides and flooding, a...
Powerful California storm brings record rain, floo...
Millions of people faced dangerous flooding in California Monday after a storm brought record rains and gusting winds, leaving at...
'Vanity project': a climate summit in oil-rich Aze...
The decision to hold a climate summit in oil-and-gas-producer Azerbaijan, which will be hosting the COP29 UN Climate Change Confer...
Wildfires scorch central Chile, death toll tops 11...
The death toll from central Chile's blazing wildfires climbed to at least 112 people on Sunday, after President Gabriel Boric warn...
Chile wildfire survivors return to horrifying afte...
Within minutes his world erupted in a hellish fire: Abraham Mardones, with just the clothes on his back, miraculously managed to e...
Heatwave risk hovers over Paris Olympics
Scorching summer heat is hard to imagine now in mid-winter Paris, but in six months' time when the world's athletes arrive for the...
Parisians vote in anti-SUV parking price referendu...
Parisians voted on Sunday in a referendum on tripling parking costs for hefty SUV-style cars, a campaign that has drivers' groups...
Extreme heat drives Chile wildfires leaving at lea...
Wildfires blazing in central Chile have now killed at least 64 people and the toll will keep rising, President Gabriel Boric said...
'It was hell': Survivor recounts rush of flames in...
Rodrigo Pulgar was at home listening to news of the wildfires devastating parts of Chile when flames suddenly began rushing over h...
'Catastrophic' Chile wildfires leave at least 19 d...
Wildfires blazing across central and southern Chile have left at least 19 people dead, officials said Saturday, warning the toll w...
10 feared dead in Chile forest fires
Chilean firefighters were battling rapidly expanding wildfires Saturday that officials fear have claimed around 10 lives and are t...
Hit them in the pocket: how cities are going after...
Two decades after London began moves to clamp down on sports utility vehicles, Parisians on Sunday will vote on whether to squeeze...
Biden taps insider Podesta as US climate envoy
President Joe Biden on Wednesday named John Podesta as US climate envoy, picking another veteran Washington insider to succeed Joh...
India's elusive snow leopards snapped in key surve...
Snow leopards have been dubbed the "ghosts of the mountains" for their elusive behaviour, but Indian researchers have successfully...
Australia scientists pluck rare handfish from ocea...
Scientists have collected 25 extremely rare red handfish from the ocean off Australia, hoping to protect the struggling species fr...
New mayor hopes trees will cool Athens down
Athens' new mayor will plant 25,000 trees over the next five years to try to cool the sprawling Greek capital, he told AFP.
'The sun didn't sting so much before': fires stun...
The once bright green Andean forest where Maria Yadira Jimenez worked as a tour guide has been reduced to ashes.
Giant waves flood key US military base on Marshall...
A clean-up operation was underway Thursday after giant waves flooded a key US military base on the Marshall Islands in the heart o...
Warming world dampening winter sports in Canada
Christmas was without snow, then temperatures seesawed throughout January in much of Canada, as the increasing effects of climate...
King coal set to lose crown for electricity produc...
Renewables are set to displace coal as the top source of energy for electricity production globally in 2025, the International Ene...
Fierce winter weather slams US, dozens dead
Unrelenting storms have pummelled the United States over the past week, leading to at least 50 weather-related deaths, officials a...
Tens of thousands sign up for French electric car...
The French government has been flooded with applications from low-income households to lease a subsidised electric car from 100 eu...
Tata Steel to cut 3,000 jobs in Wales: source
Indian-owned Tata Steel is to cut about 3,000 jobs at a plant in Wales, a source said Thursday, as the industry struggles to finan...
Heavy snow, freezing rain hobble European travel
Severe winter weather in northern Europe prompted the cancellation of hundreds of flights Wednesday at Frankfurt airport, Germany'...
New York finally ends record 700 plus days without...
New York on Tuesday finally ended a record streak of more than 700 days without measurable snowfall, with a thin layer of white po...
Trump steamrolls on to New Hampshire after Iowa la...
Donald Trump stormed towards New Hampshire on Tuesday, knowing that a repeat of his runaway win in Iowa would all but seal the Rep...
Lack of snow sparks worry for drought-hit Afghanis...
Afghanistan saw almost no snow as of mid-January, a new sign of the heavy toll of global warming on the Central Asian country whic...
Trump passes major US election test with win in Io...
Donald Trump swept to victory Monday in Iowa's caucuses -- the first vote in the US presidential race -- cementing his status as t...
Trump faces major test as frigid Iowa kick-starts...
Iowa Republicans kicked off the nominating contests for November's US presidential election in an Arctic blast Monday as Donald Tr...
Republican election race kicks off in frigid Iowa,...
Voters in a brutally cold Iowa kick of the US Republican presidential nomination race Monday -- the first major test of whether Do...
Republican US presidential contest kicks off in fr...
Voters kick off the US Republican presidential nomination race Monday with caucuses in freezing Iowa, the first major test of whet...
Syrian farmers abandon the land for steadier jobs
After years of war, drought and economic crisis, Omar Abdel-Fattah was forced to rent out his farmland in northeast Syria, preferr...