People cool off at a mist fountain in Prague, Czech Republic, on Wednesday. Photograph: Martin Divíšek/EPA
Summer 2024 sweltered to Earth’s hottest on record, making it even more likely that this…
A sign warns tourists of extreme heat in Death Valley national park in July in California. Photograph: Daniel Jacobi II/AP
Earth’s string of 13 straight months with a new average heat record came to…
A ruling described by activists as “historic”, a court in Ecuador has ruled that pollution has violated the rights of a river that runs through the country’s capital, Quito.
The city government…
Liberia, West Africa's most forested country, has a long history of illegal logging, which the country's regulator, the Forestry Development Authority, has repeatedly struggled to confront.
So, it…
Coal-fired power plants would be forced to capture smokestack emissions or shut down under a rule issued on Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday designated two forever chemicals that have been used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foams as hazardous substances, an action intended to ensure…
Using chainsaws, heavy machinery and controlled burns, the Biden administration is trying to turn the tide on worsening wildfires in the US west through a multibillion-dollar cleanup of forests…
GULU, UGANDA —
The charcoal makers in the forests of northern Uganda fled into the bush, temporarily abandoning their precious handiwork: multiple heaps of timber yet to be processed.
The…
A searing heatwave in parts of southern Asia in April was made at least 30 times more likely by climate breakdown, according to a study by international scientists.
Unusually high temperatures of up…
Αντιμέτωποι με ελλείψεις ηλεκτρικής ενέργειας βρίσκονται οι κάτοικοι της πολιτείας της Νέας Νότιας Ουαλίας (στην οποία βρίσκεται και το Σίδνεϊ, η μεγαλύτερη πόλη της χώρας), με την τοπική κυβέρνηση…
The death toll from floods in north-eastern Brazil could rise to more than 100 after authorities in Pernambuco state confirmed 91 deaths with many more people missing.
Hundreds of state and federal…
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