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Canada tries to adapt to a future of wildfires

Faced with another summer when wildfires have scorched millions of hectares of land and blankets of smoke have disrupted daily life nationwide, Canada is trying to limit the annual devastation.

Indonesia battles Mount Bromo wildfire as El Nino takes root

Indonesian authorities battled Friday to contain a wildfire that has swept through Mount Bromo National Park on Java island, destroying more than 120 hectares as the country braces itself for an extreme El Nino-fuelled dry season.

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Fatal bear attacks in Japan hit record number

Bears have killed a record number of people in Japan this year, the environment ministry said on Thursday just as another possible victim was reported missing.

Australian rainforests no longer a carbon sink: study

Australia's tropical rainforests are among the first in the world to start leaking more carbon dioxide than they absorb, scientists said Thursday as they linked the worrying trend to climate change.

Climate advisers warn UK to prepare for 2C warming by 2050

UK climate advisers warned the government for the first time on Wednesday to prepare for 2C of global warming by 2050, stressing current efforts to adapt to extreme weather were not enough.

Brazil's climate wins ahead of COP30

Brazil's president has slashed deforestation in the Amazon and worked to better protect Indigenous people, giving him a generally positive environmental record as he prepares to host COP30 UN climate talks in a month.

Brazil hopes Amazon summit can unite world for climate action

Brazil is betting its much-hyped climate summit in the Amazon next month can deliver something increasingly rare in a fractured world: proof that nations can still unite to confront a global crisis.

Not nothing, not enough: is the Paris Agreement working?

Climate cooperation is facing a reckoning. Ten years after the landmark Paris Agreement, major polluters are wavering on action while the world fast approaches the deal's safer warming limit.

Trees, targets and trillions: what's on the agenda at COP30?

This year's United Nations climate summit promises to be symbolic, marking a decade since the Paris Agreement and taking place in the environmentally vulnerable Amazon. But what is actually on the agenda?

World's coral reefs crossing survival limit: global experts

The world's tropical coral reefs have almost certainly crossed a point of no return as oceans warm beyond a level most can survive, a major scientific report announced on Monday.

In minutes, Mexico's rains swept away homes and people

Standing near the lifeless body of her sister, Rosalia Ortega is grateful to have found her in the river of mud that suddenly swept away her house as torrential rains pounded this Mexican mountain town.

Top nature group to unveil new 'red list' of threatened species

The world's top conservation body is holding its world congress starting Thursday in the Emirati capital Abu Dhabi and will unveil its updated "red list" of threatened species.

Veggie 'burgers' face the chop as EU lawmakers back labeling ban

Plant-based "steaks" and "veggie burgers" may be on the way out in the European Union after the bloc's parliament voted Wednesday to restrict such labels to meat only, in a win for disgruntled farmers.

Wildlife flee as floods swamp Indian parks

A herd of elephants, along with tigers and leopards, have escaped after raging floods in India submerged two of West Bengal's famed wildlife sanctuaries, state officials said Wednesday.

Record flooding hits Vietnam city, eight killed in north

Record floods submerged streets in several communities in Vietnam on Wednesday, with at least eight people killed this week, the government said.

New Zealand's seas warming faster than global average: report

The seas around New Zealand are warming much faster than global averages, scientists said Wednesday in a new study warning how climate change could batter the island nation.

Renewables overtake coal but growth slows: reports

Solar and wind farms generated more electricity than coal for the first time on record this year, but US and Chinese policy shifts are slowing growth, putting a global 2030 target out of reach, reports said on Tuesday.

Common inhalers carry heavy climate cost, study finds

The inhalers people depend on to breathe are also warming the planet, producing annual emissions equivalent to more than half a million cars in the United States alone, researchers said Monday in a major new study.

China trials 'energy-saving' underwater data centres

Power-hungry data centres run hot, so one Chinese company is planning to submerge a pod of servers in the sea off Shanghai with hopes of solving computing's energy woes.

Rising wildfires spur comeback for Canadian water bomber

The Canadair water bomber revolutionized the fight against wildfires after it debuted in the skies decades ago.

Jane Goodall: crusader for chimpanzees and the planet

British primatologist Jane Goodall imitated chimpanzees, sat with them in trees and shared their bananas during her trail-blazing research in Tanzania into the apes' true nature.

Hurricane Imelda bound for Bermuda as a Cat 2 storm

Hurricane Imelda, now a Category 2 storm, was churning toward Bermuda on Wednesday with sustained winds of 100 mph (160 kph), threatening damaging waves and flooding.

Typhoon Bualoi batters Vietnam coast, killing 11

Typhoon Bualoi ripped roofs from buildings and uprooted electrical poles along Vietnam's coast, killing at least 11 people, local and national officials said on Monday.

400,000 evacuated, 3 dead as fresh storm batters Philippines

The Philippines evacuated hundreds of thousands of people and confirmed at least three deaths Friday as a severe tropical storm battered the country, still feeling the effects of Super Typhoon Ragasa.

Clean-up underway in southern China after Typhoon Ragasa sweeps through

Hundreds of thousands of people in southern China were clearing up Thursday after powerful Typhoon Ragasa crashed through Guangdong Province, ripping down trees, destroying fences, and blasting signs off buildings.

Low bar, high hopes: China unveils new climate goals

China has announced its new climate action plan at a UN climate meeting -- its first ever pledge to include absolute targets for cutting planet-warming gases -- setting a goal of reducing emissions by 7–10 percent by 2035.

In first, China unveils specific emissions targets

China on Wednesday issued its first ever absolute targets for cutting planet-warming gases, a landmark pledge from the world's top polluter as the United States doubles down on fossil fuels and Europe falters.

Planetary health check warns risk of 'destabilising' Earth systems

Humans are gambling the very stability of Earth's life support systems, scientists said Wednesday, warning that ocean acidity was yet another key planetary threshold to be breached.

Typhoon Ragasa slams into south China after killing 14 in Taiwan

Fierce winds, pounding rain and rough seas battered southern China on Wednesday as powerful Typhoon Ragasa made landfall in Guangdong province after killing at least 14 in Taiwan.

14 killed in Taiwan after barrier lake bursts

At least 14 people were killed when a decades-old barrier lake burst in Taiwan, government officials said Wednesday, after Super Typhoon Ragasa pounded the island with torrential rain.

'Everything broken': Chinese residents in typhoon path assess damage

Residents in southern China's Yangjiang were grappling with damaged property and power outages Wednesday evening in the immediate aftermath of Typhoon Ragasa, hours after the destructive storm made landfall near the city.

17 killed in Taiwan after barrier lake bursts

At least 17 people were killed when a decades-old barrier lake burst in Taiwan, government officials said Wednesday, after Super Typhoon Ragasa pounded the island with torrential rain.

14 killed, 152 missing in Taiwan after barrier lake burst

At least 14 people were killed when a decades-old lake barrier burst in Taiwan, a government official said Wednesday, after Super Typhoon Ragasa pounded the island with torrential rain.

14 killed by lake burst in Taiwan as Super Typhoon Ragasa wreaks havoc

Fierce winds, pounding rain and high seas battered Hong Kong on Wednesday as Super Typhoon Ragasa headed into southern China after causing a lake burst that killed at least 14 people in Taiwan.

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