Environment
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Met Office Warns Autumn Rain May Not End Drought in England and Wales
LONDON, August 15 — The Met Office’s chief meteorologist, Will Lang, has warned that anticipated autumn rainfall may…
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England and Wales Head for Driest July on Record, Met Office Figures Show
LONDON, August 15 — The United Kingdom is grappling with a severe drought, with 71.3% of England officially…
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Magnitude 7.7 Quake Off Flores Kills at Least 38 in Indonesia’s Ring of Fire
JAKARTA, August 15 — Indonesia sits astride the Pacific Ring of Fire, a vast 40,000-kilometer horseshoe-shaped belt of…
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Victorian Coalition Pledges Not to Force Early Closure of Latrobe Valley Coal Plants
MELBOURNE, August 14 — How a country powers itself is never just about electrons and turbines. In Australia,…
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Michigan High Court Vacates Line 5 Tunnel Permit, Delaying Enbridge
WASHINGTON, July 17 — The Line 5 tunnel project has secured its federal permit approvals, but the figure…
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Lightning, Not People, Burned Most of Canada’s 2023 Wildfire Land
OTTAWA, July 18 — The smoke hangs low over the boreal forest, a vast sea of coniferous trees…
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Microplastics Found in 92% of Animals Sampled From Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents
NUR-SULTAN, August 2 — The integrity of global marine resources faces increasing scrutiny as a recent study revealed…
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Magnitude 5.3 Quake Strikes Off Bougainville, Felt Reports Absent
KOKOPO, Papua New Guinea, July 30 — A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck early Thursday, 217 kilometers southeast of…
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Pre-Columbian Amazon: ‘Wilderness’ or ‘Cultural Parkland’?
BRASÍLIA, July 29 — The long-held view of the Amazon as a near-empty wilderness before European arrival is…
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EU Warns Wildfire Risk Is Shifting to Greece, Italy and Central Europe
ROME, July 28, 2026 — Europe is warming faster than any other continent, with temperatures rising at twice…
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Record Heat and Wildfires Force Thousands From Their Homes Across Southern Europe
BRUSSELS, July 28 — A 2023 report from the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission projects…
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Oceans are losing dissolved oxygen as warming and nutrient runoff combine, a scientist warned
WASHINGTON, July 27, 2026 — A 2025 study in the journal Science documented that the ocean’s oxygen-starved zones…
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Ocean Dead Zones Have Quadrupled Since the 1950s as Oxygen Levels Fall
NEW YORK, July 27 — A major new synthesis of ocean monitoring data, published this year in Science…
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High Pressure Heat Domes Trap Hot Air And Amplify Extreme Temperatures
WASHINGTON, July 25 — A sprawling, stagnant high-pressure system that meteorologists call a heat dome has become a…
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How EFFIS tracks Europe’s wildfires with experts from 43 countries
BRUSSELS, July 25 — The European Forest Fire Information System started logging wildfire data in the year 2000,…
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Diesel Fuel Explained: From Peanut Oil in 1900 to Ultra-Low-Sulfur Standards
MOSCOW, July 25 — The liquid fuel known as diesel, designed for compression-ignition engines, remains a backbone of…
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Light Pollution Hides the Milky Way From More Than a Third of the World
WASHINGTON, July 25 — Light pollution has escalated into a global environmental crisis that now affects the overwhelming…
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NYC Officials Warn Ontario Wildfire Smoke Could Compound Heat Wave Air Risks
NEW YORK, July 17 — State authorities issued a health warning today as fine particulate matter from Canadian…
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Three U.S. Cities Top Global Air Quality Rankings Due to Canadian Wildfires
CHICAGO, July 17 — Three American cities topped the global list of the most polluted urban centers on…
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Canadian Wildfire Smoke Chokes US Midwest, Northeast Cities
OTTAWA — Out-of-control wildfires in the Canadian province of Ontario are pumping a plume of hazardous smoke south…
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Global E-Waste Statistics: 62 Million Tonnes in 2022 and Recycling Falling Behind
ROME, July 14 — The shift is already underway, but the numbers tell a stark story of just…
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Peak Oil Demand? The Energy Transition and the Future of Petroleum
ROME, July 9 — The shift is here. For decades, the theory of peak oil meant the moment…
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Desalination Plants and Water Recycling Scale Up as Water Stress Spreads
LOS ANGELES, July 9 — The figure that matters: 2 billion. That is the number of people globally…
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Tanker Hit by Ukrainian Drone Leaves Black Sea Oil Slick and Unanswered Questions
ROME, July 8 — The Black Sea is becoming an environmental casualty of war, and the mechanics here…
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