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Wildfires rage in Greece as firefighters continue battle in France and Spain
Wildfires fanned by heavy winds burned across multiple areas of Greece on Saturday, including near Athens, with large-scale firefighting operations and emergency evacuations under...
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'Le camping', an egalitarian symbol of French summers, faces a fiery future
As French camping approaches its centenary, an industry that has shaped generations of family holidays finds itself increasingly exposed to the realities of a warming climate.
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Explainer: As sargassum seaweed piles up, Caribbean bets on boats, barriers and biofuel
Hundreds of Mexican hotel workers, tractor operators and specialized Navy personnel are heading out to the beach each day at dawn to clean record masses of rotting sargassum seawee...
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Magnitude 4.7 quake strikes near Italy's Naples, causing outages and damage
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake struck the Campi Flegrei area near the southern Italian city of Naples on Friday, causing power outages, disrupting train and metro services and damagin...
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UN weather agency warns strong El Nino to intensify from August
The United Nations weather agency warned on Friday that a strong El Nino is expected to intensify starting in August, warning that the phenomenon is likely to increase above-nor...
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India forecasts below-average August monsoon rainfall
India is likely to receive below-average monsoon rainfall in August after recording average rainfall in July, the weather department said on Friday, raising concerns about crop yi...
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Greece fights fires near Athens as France, Spain improve
Greece battled wildfires on the outskirts of Athens and on the island of Crete on Friday, while France and Spain won some respite after bringing major blazes under control.
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Hungary's Magyar says low Danube levels could keep Paks nuclear plant shut for weeks
Hungary's Paks nuclear plant could remain shut for weeks because water levels on the Danube river, which supplies cooling water to the facility, are expected to stay too low for ...
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Rhine water level drops to around record lows, costs for industry rise
Water levels on the Rhine river in Germany fell to near record lows on Friday as a heatwave and prolonged dry weather gripped the region, the country's navigation agency said, tho...
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Nickel mining in Indonesia's Raja Ampat continues despite protests, Greenpeace finds
Nickel mining operations in the UNESCO-listed Raja Ampat in Indonesia's easternmost region of Papua are continuing a year after a widespread outcry over their impact on the region'...
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South Korea records highest-ever temperature of 41.4 C as heatwave intensifies
South Korea recorded its highest temperature on Friday since modern weather observations began, as a prolonged heatwave pushed temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees F...
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People allowed back home in southwestern France as fire weakens
Thousands of people evacuated in southwestern France due to a major wildfire were gradually allowed back home on Friday after authrities said the fire, which has burned for more ...
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Wildfire emissions soar, exposing millions to worse air pollution
Wildfires in France and Spain have exposed millions of people to health-damaging air pollution over the last few days, scientists said on Thursday.
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Drought leaves Swiss border lake popular with tourists all but drained
Lake Brenets, a long, winding lake on the Swiss-French border, is all but drained and has been unnavigable for more than a week amid a prolonged drought that has hit waterways acr...
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George and Amal Clooney flee their luxury French home due to wildfires
Hollywood actor George Clooney and his British wife Amal, an international human rights lawyer, have evacuated their luxury home in Brignoles as a result of the wildfires blazing...
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After surviving earthquakes, a family in Venezuela seeks a new beginning far from ground zero
Weeks after the twin earthquakes that devastated Venezuela's central coast, Adriana Aponte and her family joined a growing exodus of survivors fleeing to poorer regions to escape ...
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Northwest China on high alert as heavy rain raises risk of floods and landslides
Authorities in northwest China's Shaanxi and Gansu provinces issued emergency alerts and closed dozens of tourist sites on Thursday as heavy rain raised the risk of floods and la...
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UK heat-linked deaths this year approach 2022 record, health agency says
An estimated 2,877 people in Britain have died from heat-related causes so far this year, nearly double the total recorded during all of 2025, the country's health authorities sa...
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