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'A blessing': Rains refill Iraq's drought-hit rese...
The reservoir behind the massive Darbandikhan dam, tucked between the rolling mountains of northeastern Iraq, is almost full again...
Brazil's football giants rally to help victims of...
Brazil's football giants -- including Neymar, Vinicius Junior and Ronaldinho -- are rallying behind a fundraising effort for victi...
No letup yet for flood-battered southern Brazil
The rains may have abated, but floodwaters continued their assault on southern Brazil Monday, with hundreds of municipalities in r...
EU election could force sharp turn in electric car...
A change at the top of European institutions could herald a change in the 2035 target to phase out sales of internal combustion en...
Flood-hit Kenya and Tanzania buffeted by tropical...
Coastal regions of Kenya and Tanzania were buffeted by heavy rains and high winds from a tropical cyclone on Saturday, adding to t...
Flood-hit Kenya and Tanzania on alert as cyclone n...
Kenya and Tanzania were on alert on Saturday for a cyclone heading towards their Indian Ocean coastlines, threatening to pile on m...
In southern Brazil, flood victims cope with total...
When Claudio Almiro finally abandoned his ruined home in flood-ravaged southern Brazil, he found himself slogging through waist-de...
Dams strain as water, death toll, keep rising in s...
The death toll from floods and mudslides triggered by torrential storms in southern Brazil climbed to 39 Friday, officials said, a...
Kenya, Tanzania brace for cyclone as heavy rains p...
Kenya and Tanzania were bracing Thursday for a cyclone on the heels of torrential rains that have devastated East Africa, killing...
Banks slow to limit coal financing: NGO
Banks lent almost $470 billion to the coal industry between 2021 and 2023, according to a study published Thursday by German envir...
Wind energy giant Vestas swings to loss, sees geop...
Vestas, the world's number one wind turbine maker, said Thursday it swung to a 75-million-euro ($80-million) loss in the first qua...
French govt to 'fight' TotalEnergies New York list...
France will "fight" to keep oil and gas giant TotalEnergies from shifting its main stock market listing to New York, French Financ...
Mass fish die-off in Vietnam as heatwave roasts So...
Hundreds of thousands of fish have died in a reservoir in southern Vietnam's Dong Nai province, with locals and media reports sugg...
US lawmakers accuses oil giants of climate 'double...
The oil industry's public relations strategy has evolved from climate science denial to "disinformation and doublespeak" to counte...
No more dirty diesel for Paris Olympic sites
French sports venues preparing for this year's Paris Olympics are set to ditch their diesel generators in favour of power grid con...
Kenya's Ruto orders evacuations after deadly flood...
Kenyan President William Ruto on Tuesday deployed the military to evacuate everyone living in flood-prone areas after 171 people w...
Record gold prices boost recycling: industry
Record gold prices have sent recycling of the precious metal to the highest level in more than three years, as consumers cash in o...
'Bloodsicles', baths keep Philippine zoo animals c...
A Philippine zoo is giving tigers frozen treats made of animal blood and preventing lions from mating during the hottest time of t...
Kenya's Ruto convenes cabinet meeting over deadly...
Kenyan President William Ruto convened a special cabinet meeting on Tuesday to discuss measures to tackle deadly floods that have...
Canada's first new oil pipeline in decades starts...
The first major new oil pipeline to be built in Canada in decades is set to open on Wednesday, praised by proponents but panned by...
G7 urged to be 'bold' in climate hotspot Italy
G7 environment ministers gathered in Turin on Monday for two days of talks, as the UN warned "excuses" for failing to take bold ac...
G7 holds 'strategic' talks in climate hotspot Ital...
G7 ministers meet for environment and climate change talks in Turin on Monday, with experts urging the highly industrialised count...
Bangladesh reopens schools despite heat alert
Millions of students returned to their reopened schools across Bangladesh Sunday despite a lingering heatwave that prompted a nati...
Cicada-palooza! Billions of bugs to blanket Americ...
They're loud. They're sexually aroused. And for one special, cacophonous month up to a trillion of them will engulf suburbs and wo...
Herds of endangered hippos trapped in mud in droug...
Herds of endangered hippos stuck in the mud of dried-up ponds are in danger of dying in drought-struck Botswana, conservation auth...
Miner Anglo American rejects BHP's near $39-billio...
British mining giant Anglo American on Friday rejected a blockbuster $38.8-billion takeover bid from Australian rival BHP, slammin...
Miner Anglo American rejects BHP's $38.8 billion t...
British mining giant Anglo American on Friday rejected a blockbuster $38.8-billion takeover bid from Australian rival BHP, slammin...
Philippine settlement submerged by dam reappears d...
A centuries-old settlement submerged by the construction of a dam in the northern Philippines in the 1970s has reappeared as water...
Rescue pup to meme star: the real-life 'Dogecoin'...
Her fluffy face now frail, Kabosu still flashes the enigmatic smile that made her the go-to meme dog for millennials and inspired...
Bangladesh children sweat at home as heatwave shut...
Classes are cancelled across Bangladesh due to searing heat, but high school student Mohua Akter Nur found the soaring temperature...
Indian election resumes as heatwave hits voters
India's six-week election juggernaut resumed on Friday with millions of people expected to line up outside polling stations in par...
2 million bottles of Perrier ordered destroyed by...
Perrier destroyed two million bottles of its famous sparkling water suspected of being contaminated with "faecal" bacteria under g...