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Beddouza (AFP) Oct 3, 2024 - In the small fishing village of Beddouza in western Morocco, locals have turned to the Atlantic to quench their thirst, using mobile desalination stations to combat the kingdom's persistent drought.
Oct 3, 2024
Asheville, United States (AFP) Oct 3, 2024 - More than 210 people are now confirmed dead after Hurricane Helene carved a path of destruction through several US states, officials said Thursday, making it the second deadliest storm to hit the US mainland in more than half a century.
Oct 3, 2024
Geneva (AFP) Oct 3, 2024 - The World Health Organization announced Thursday a global plan to battle dengue and other diseases carried by mosquitos as they spread faster and further amid climate change.
Oct 3, 2024
Brasilia (AFP) Oct 3, 2024 - Brazil's government on Thursday joined Asian palm oil and coffee producers in welcoming a European Union decision to delay implementation of new anti-deforestation rules which had faced strong global pushback.
Oct 3, 2024
Washington (AFP) Oct 3, 2024 - From Hurricane Helene to Typhoon Yagi, powerful storms are battering the globe, and scientists warn that a warming planet is amplifying their destructive force to unprecedented levels.
Oct 3, 2024
Kayar, Senegal (AFP) Oct 3, 2024 - The Senegalese town of Kayar sits on the doorstep of the vast Atlantic Ocean, but it is a farm located further inland that provides part of its fish production.
Oct 3, 2024
Yinchuan, China (AFP) Oct 3, 2024 - At a laboratory in Beijing, purple and green hybrid-species grapes are laid out on a board for testing, part of the strategy China's nascent wine industry is using to try to combat climate challenges.
Oct 3, 2024
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 03, 2024 - Inspired by the half-human, half-horse creatures that are part of Ancient Greek mythology, the field of astronomy has its own kind of centaurs: distant objects orbiting the Sun between Jupiter and N
Oct 3, 2024
Acapulco, Mexico (AFP) Oct 3, 2024 - Mexico's new President Claudia Sheinbaum on Wednesday expressed concern about supplies of drinking water in the country's west after Hurricane John hit the Pacific coast, killing at least 16 people.
Oct 3, 2024
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 03, 2024 - New research on small iron-rich formations within the Pinnacles in Western Australia, part of the world's largest wind-blown limestone region, has uncovered valuable insights into Earth's ancient cl
Oct 3, 2024
Geneva (AFP) Oct 3, 2024 - World skiing's governing body joined forces with the UN's weather agency on Thursday in a bid to feed its meteorological expertise into managing the existential threat to winter sports posed by climate change.
Oct 3, 2024
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 03, 2024 - Recent research has revealed that dust carried from southern Africa towards Madagascar by wind triggered the largest phytoplankton bloom observed in two decades. This event, which occurred between N
Oct 3, 2024
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 03, 2024 - A new survey of climate scientists reveals a broad consensus that global temperatures are on track to surpass the 1.5 C to well-below 2 C targets outlined in the 2015 Paris Agreement. The study, pub
Oct 3, 2024
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 03, 2024 - In a groundbreaking study, scientists at Northwestern University have, for the first time, witnessed hydrogen and oxygen atoms merging to form nano-sized water bubbles at the molecular level. This s
Oct 3, 2024
Swannanoa, United States (AFP) Oct 3, 2024 - When Hurricane Helene roared over the mountains before dawn last week, it brought a maelstrom of water that rose to the mailbox of Shelby Holzhauser's little white house on the banks of the Swannanoa River.
Oct 3, 2024
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Oct 2, 2024 - The European Commission on Wednesday proposed to delay by a year a ban on imports of products driving deforestation that has faced pushback from countries around the world.
Oct 2, 2024
