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Powerful storm pummels US Northeast
Sep 26, 2026 (AFP)
Heavy rain and strong winds battered the northeastern United States on Saturday as an unusually powerful autumn storm intensified, forcing the cancelation of hu...
Powerful storm pummels northeast US with rain, high winds
Sep 26, 2026 (AFP)
Heavy rain and strong winds battered the northeastern United States on Saturday as an unusually powerful autumn storm intensified, forcing the cancellation of h...
Drought declared in three-quarters of India's richest state
Sep 26, 2026 (AFP)
Drought has hit three-quarters of India's richest state of Maharashtra, the government said on Saturday, after prolonged low rainfall in the region home to the ...
Indonesia fires threatens critically-endangered orangutan: IUCN
Sep 26, 2026 (AFP)
Wildfires that tore through Indonesian Borneo's vast tropical forests have piled pressure on critically endangered Bornean orangutans, the International Union f...
El Nino rewrites the menu in the world's top restaurants
Sep 26, 2026 (AFP)
A record-breaking El Nino will likely force the world's top chefs to rethink their menus ahead of droughts, floods and heatwaves upending global food systems.
Hurricane Polo triggers huge waves in coastal Mexican city
Sep 25, 2026 (AFP)
Mexican authorities announced the deployment of nearly 20,000 security forces in the Pacific coast states, as Hurricane Polo brought rains and heavy swells on F...
Nepal PM says floods 'a warning to the world' about climate change
Sep 25, 2026 (AFP)
Nepal's catastrophic flooding last month "was a warning to the world" about the rising dangers of climate change, Prime Minister Balendra Shah told the United N...
India's 'Tree Father' plants for a greener future
Sep 25, 2026 (AFP)
With Delhi's choking haze hanging overhead, Peepal Baba presses a young tree into the earth, continuing a nearly half-century mission to restore India's vanishi...
Guatemala ensures survival of vulnerable 'fossil' fish
Sep 25, 2026 (AFP)
In a freshwater canal surrounded by mangroves in southern Guatemala, hundreds of baby tropical gars -- a torpedo-shaped fish with an alligator-like snout dubbed...
Torrential rains flood towns in western Libya
Sep 25, 2026 (AFP)
Torrential rains caused severe flooding across several towns in western Libya overnight Friday, cutting electricity and running water and trapping residents in ...
World ignoring UN request for El Nino disaster fund: FAO
Sep 25, 2026 (AFP)
The UN has received just one-fifth of the $202 million requested to prepare for food crises caused by El Nino in 22 high-risk countries, a top official told AFP...
Hurricane Nolo watch issued for Hawaii's Big Island
Sep 25, 2026 (AFP)
Hurricane Nolo strengthened Thursday, with heavy rainfall threatening "catastrophic" flooding on Hawaii's Big Island, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) sai...
Rich nations should foot climate bill, says Nepal minister
Sep 25, 2026 (AFP)
Wealthy nations must do their fair share to help countries that are least responsible for the climate crisis, yet bear its brunt, Nepal's foreign minister told ...
WTO to weigh Russia complaint over EU carbon border levy
Sep 25, 2026 (AFP)
The World Trade Organization will appoint experts to examine a complaint from Moscow over the European Union's carbon border tax, a Geneva-based trade official ...
Millions in US northeast brace for powerful storm
Sep 25, 2026 (AFP)
More than 40 million people in the northeastern United States braced Friday for heavy rain and strong winds as an unusually powerful storm for the season was fo...
Cash for nature protection: hotelier's offer to Principe islanders
Sep 25, 2026 (AFP)
On the paradise island of Principe, a lush jungle haven in the turquoise waters of the Gulf of Guinea, a South African multimillionaire is offering locals a fin...
Hurricane Polo to make landfall in Mexico after all
Sep 25, 2026 (AFP)
Hurricane Polo rumbling off the Pacific coast of Mexico is expected to make landfall after all, US authorities said Friday.
Bacteria suspected in deaths of hundreds of baby whales off Argentina
Sep 25, 2026 (AFP)
A bacterial infection is suspected of killing hundreds of baby whales in the southern Argentine region of Patagonia, a marine mammal expert told AFP on Thursday...
Outrage over controversial UK professorship for Indian tycoon
Sep 24, 2026 (AFP)
Britain's Newcastle University faced criticism Thursday for awarding a sustainability professorship to Anant Ambani, the son of Asia's richest man and owner of ...
Italy delays regional ban on old diesel vehicles
Sep 24, 2026 (AFP)
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's cabinet on Thursday postponed a ban on older diesel cars in the heavily-polluted north.
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