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Indonesia to bring back baby orangutans allegedly trafficked to India
Sep 11, 2026 (AFP)
Indonesian authorities are working to repatriate five baby orangutans allegedly trafficked to India, where they were found motherless in a forest, Jakarta's for...
Researchers eye AI revolution in natural disaster forecasts
Sep 11, 2026 (AFP)
A revolution in forecasting natural disasters is underway, say researchers in Switzerland who are training AI models on vast troves of NASA climate data to prod...
August hottest month ever recorded globally: EU monitor
Sep 10, 2026 (AFP)
The EU's climate monitor said Thursday that August was the hottest single month ever recorded globally, with ocean temperatures also reaching unprecedented high...
Indonesia rescues six orangutans from fires in a week
Sep 10, 2026 (AFP)
Six orangutans including two nursing infants have been rescued from fires raging on Borneo island in the past week, Indonesian authorities and rescuers said Thu...
Hottest June to August period on record for 1.3 billion people: AFP analysis of Copernicus data
Sep 10, 2026 (AFP)
Some 1.3 billion people worldwide this year experienced the hottest June to August period on record, according to an AFP analysis of meteorological data from th...
August hottest month ever recorded globally as huge El Nino emerges
Sep 10, 2026 (AFP)
Europe's climate monitor said Thursday that August was the hottest month ever recorded around the world and warned of worse to come, as an unprecedented El Nino...
Girls worst hit by climate shocks on schools: Unicef
Sep 10, 2026 (AFP)
Girls are at greater risk of dropping out of education when their schools are hit by heatwaves, storms or wildfires linked to climate change, the UN children's ...
Brazilian court debates fracking for oil and gas
Sep 10, 2026 (AFP)
A high Brazilian court began debating Wednesday whether to authorize fracking for shale oil and gas deposits, an extraction technique for hard-to-reach reserves...
Online and undercover: saving trafficked wildlife in Thailand
Sep 10, 2026 (AFP)
Nawee Changpirom has spent years working to rescue trafficked wildlife in Thailand, but even he can sometimes hardly believe the creatures he has found: leopard...
Portugal harvests grapes at night to beat the heat
Sep 10, 2026 (AFP)
Equipped with headlamps and pruning shears, a team of farm workers navigate pitch-black darkness during a nocturnal grape harvest that shields them from Portuga...
August hottest month ever recorded globally as huge El Nino emerges
Sep 10, 2026 (AFP)
Europe's climate monitor said Thursday that August was the hottest month ever recorded around the world and warned of worse to come, as an unprecedented El Nino...
75 percent chance of 'historic' El Nino this year: US agency
Sep 10, 2026 (AFP)
The US weather agency said Thursday that the El Nino pattern in the Pacific was strengthening and there was a 75 percent chance it would reach "historic" intens...
As oceans warm, Florida scientists hunt for heat-resistant coral
Sep 10, 2026 (AFP)
Off Florida's coast, a team of scientists and trained volunteers in scuba gear descends to the ocean floor and begins planting young coral onto a reef and exami...
Heat forces French champagne makers to stiffen their drink
Sep 09, 2026 (AFP)
Drinking this year's champagne might give you a heftier headache as France's record heatwaves are forcing some producers to up the alcohol levels, industry offi...
Spain endured hottest summer on record: weather agency
Sep 09, 2026 (AFP)
Mainland Spain endured its hottest summer since records began in 1961, with an unprecedented 61 heatwave days across June, July and August, national weather age...
The round-the-clock monitors protecting Bhutan from glacier risk
Sep 09, 2026 (AFP)
In a humble control room a few hours from Bhutan's capital, a team works around the clock to monitor the risks of the Himalayan country's rapidly melting glacie...
'Alarm bells ringing': US summer heat shatters record
Sep 09, 2026 (AFP)
The United States has endured its hottest summer on record, a new peak that scientists said should send alarm bells ringing over the increasingly dire impacts o...
Evacuations in Malibu after waves open sinkhole at Nicolas Cage's house
Sep 09, 2026 (AFP)
People living in an upmarket coastal stretch of Malibu were under an evacuation order Wednesday after a giant sinkhole opened up on the driveway of a beachfront...
'Alarm bells ringing': US summer heat shatters record
Sep 09, 2026 (AFP)
The contiguous United States has endured its hottest summer on record, a new peak that scientists said should send alarm bells ringing over the increasingly dir...
US had warmest summer on record: climate agency
Sep 09, 2026 (AFP)
The contiguous United States endured its hottest summer since modern records began, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Wednesday, in the l...
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