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UN official visited a flooded neighborhood in state capital Porto Alegre over the weekend. Brasilia: Record floods that killed over 170 people and displaced half a million in southern Brazil are a warning sign of more disasters to come throughout the Americas because of climate change, an official at the United Nations’ refugee agency said…
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Hydra is popular among foreign visitors and those travelling on yachts. Thirteen people have been arrested following a forest fire on the Greek island of Hydra, which authorities believe was started by fireworks launched from a yacht. The fire, which started on Friday, devastated the island’s sole pine forest. Although now under control, the fire…
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The story so far: Leaders of the Group of Seven, the U.S., Canada, Germany, France, Japan, the U.K. and Italy, met in Italy’s Apulia region from June 13-15, along with the European Union leadership, for a summit to discuss a host of issues. India has been invited to the outreach 11 times, with Prime Minister…
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Muslim pilgrims gather at the top of the rocky hill known as the Mountain of Mercy, on the Plain of Arafat, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage, near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, June 15, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Each year, millions of Muslims from across the world embark on the Hajj…
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Muslim pilgrims gather at the top of the rocky hill known as the Mountain of Mercy, on the Plain of Arafat, during the annual haj pilgrimage, near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, June 15, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Each year, millions of Muslims from across the world embark on the haj…
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Image for Representation. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The landscape along the Buffels River in South Africa’s Namaqualand region is dotted with thousands of sandy mounds that occupy about 20% of the surface area. These heuweltjies, as the locals call them (the word means “little hills” in Afrikaans), are termite mounds, inhabited by an underground network of…
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Nighttime temperatures have increased even more rapidly than daytime temperatures. New Delhi: With Mumbai seeing the highest changes in the nighttime temperatures, India continues to suffer a severe heatwave, a new analysis on Friday showed climate change added nearly 50 to 80 nights each year where the temperature exceeded 25 degrees Celsius, with serious impacts…
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A general view of Hoa Binh Hydropower Plant, state utility owned by Electricity of Vietnam, in Hoa Binh province, Vietnam, June 4, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters More than 800 coal-fired power plants in emerging countries could be decommissioned and profitably replaced by cleaner solar energy starting from the end of the decade, research on…
Researchers from the University of Chicago detail a new wearable fabric that can help urban residents survive the worst impacts of massive heat caused by global climate change. | Photo Credit: AP As global temperatures and urban populations rise, the world’s cities have become “urban heat islands,” with tight-packed conditions and thermal radiation emitting from…
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A general view of installed solar panels at the Khavda Renewable Energy Park of Adani Green Energy Ltd (AGEL), in Khavda, India, April 12, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters With just five months to go before this year’s U.N. climate summit, countries cannot agree on the size of a global funding bill to help the…
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