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Fire destroys at least 60 hectares at Indonesia's Mount Bromo park, agency says
A fire has been raging in Indonesia's Mount Bromo national park since Monday, destroying at least 60 hectares of land, the country's disaster mitigation agency said on Thursday.
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South Korea province deploys drones to warn elderly farmers amid heatwave
Hwang Hyun-guk, a 69-year-old farmer in South Korea, often gets engrossed in tending his pepper crop. These days, however, as the country grapples with its worst heatwave in years...
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El Niño might cause fewer hurricanes in North America, limiting insurance losses, Zurich CEO says
The development of El Niño climate phenomenon might limit catastrophe claims in North America, the CEO of Zurich Insurance said on Thursday after it reported second-quarter resul...
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Bosnia's UNESCO Vjetrenica 'wind cave' provides heatwave relief
Its constant 11 degrees Celsius temperature year-round has made it a refuge.
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South Korea's president orders all-out response to heatwave
South Korea's heatwave is expected to peak over Seoul on Thursday, with the capital forecast to hit 39 degrees Celsius (102 degrees Fahrenheit) in a spell of extreme weather alread...
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Indonesia’s salt fields bloom under drought from El Niño’s baking heat
Salt farmers in Indonesia's West Java province are reaping the benefits of an El Niño-driven drought even as crop farmers brace for a prolonged challenge from the baking heat.
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Firefighters gain ground against flames around Spokane, Washington
Firefighters making big strides against a cluster of blazes near Spokane, Washington, scrambled on Wednesday to secure their gains as they anticipated a return of extremely hot, d...
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Panama Canal again tightens draft limits as water levels under pressure
The Panama Canal said on Wednesday it will tighten limits on how heavily loaded large ships can be in the coming weeks, as water levels and weather conditions continue to put pre...
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Magnitude 5.5 earthquake strikes Halmahera, Indonesia, GFZ says
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck Halmahera, Indonesia on Wednesday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said.
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Austria hits record temperature for second day running, as east reaches 41.2 C
Austria recorded a record-breaking 41.2 degrees Celsius (106.2 degrees Fahrenheit) on Wednesday in the town of Bad Deutsch-Altenburg near the border with Slovakia, nationa...
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Albania battles blazes, Hungary cuts power as Europe feels the heat
Europe, the world's fastest warming continent, has been ravaged by record-breaking heat and destructive wildfires this summer.
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Strong El Niño could push 49 million more people into acute hunger, UN agency says
A powerful El Niño weather event could push an additional nearly 49 million people into acute food insecurity across some of the world's most vulnerable regions by the end of next...
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Lightning strikes kill 14 in India's mineral-rich Jharkhand
Lightning strikes killed at least 14 people in India's mineral-rich eastern state of Jharkhand, police said, the latest deaths linked to annual monsoon rains that unleashed floo...
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Italy puts all major cities on highest alert as heatwave intensifies
Italy is placing all its 27 major cities under its highest heat alert on Thursday, as the country's fourth heatwave of the summer intensifies, the health ministry said on Tuesday...
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Guatemala's Fuego volcano intensifies, prompts preventive evacuations
Guatemalan authorities ordered the preventive evacuation of two communities near the Fuego volcano late on Monday as it entered a more intense eruptive phase, spewing ash and se...
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Landslide kills 14 in Ethiopia's Amhara region, state media says
Fourteen people were killed in a landslide near a monastery in Ethiopia's Amhara region, the state-run Amhara Media Corporation said late on Monday.
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Bezos Earth Fund, Re:wild launch $200 million drive to save species from extinction
The Bezos Earth Fund, established by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and Re:wild, co-founded by actor Leonardo DiCaprio, on Tuesday pledged an initial $200 million to support the reco...
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July was the hottest-ever month in France, says weather office
July was the hottest-ever month recorded in France since records began in 1900, the Meteo France weather office said on Tuesday.
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