2023: Weather extremes and smashed records
https://youtu.be/rZ7Qj44DOhw From devastating fires in the north to winter heatwaves in the south, the last three months produced another grim…
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Environment
‘We’re going to sink’: hundreds abandon Caribbean island home
By Juan José Rodríguez On a tiny Caribbean island, hundreds of people are preparing to pack up and move to…
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Exodus begins at drenched Burning Man party in US desert
Revelers stuck in the mud for days at the Burning Man festival in Nevada finally began heading home on Monday…
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Invasive species a growing and costly threat, key report to find
Invasive species that destroy forests, ravage crops and cause extinctions are a major and growing threat worldwide, a landmark UN-backed…
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Desert rain leaves thousands stranded in muddy mess at Burning Man
Tens of thousands of festivalgoers were stranded Sunday in deep mud in the Nevada desert after rain turned the annual…
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Typhoon Haikui leaves trail of destruction in Taiwan
By Sean CHANG and Amber WANG Taiwan woke up Monday to toppled trees, floods, and persistent rainfall after Typhoon Haikui…
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Helping or hindering? US scientists debate how to save giant sequoias
https://youtu.be/PlsnSM25lRk By Huw GRIFFITH When ferocious wildfires tore through California's prized giant sequoia forests, they killed towering trees that have…
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Paris fumigates for tiger mosquitoes as pest spreads in Europe
© Agence France-Presse Health authorities in Paris fumigated areas of the French capital for the first time on Thursday to…
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Heat records topple across sweltering Asia
BANGKOK, Sept 1, 2023 (AFP) - Temperature records are being toppled across Asia, from India's summer to Australia's winter, authorities…
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It’s ‘part of living here,’ say residents of flooded Florida town
By Gerard MARTINEZ Miriam Butler looked out at a flooded street in Crystal River, northwest Florida, where an abandoned car…
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