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Residents use fire beaters to battle a wildfire in Colinas del Campo de Martin Moro Toledano in northwestern Spain on August 21, 2025

Unusually high temperatures

Climate change made heat behind deadly Iberian fires 40 times more likely: study

Made in China? The Lion of Venice sculpture sits on top of a column in Piazza San Marco

A remarkable journey

Made in China? The remarkable tale of Venice's iconic winged lion

Colombia's coal exports -- like the rocks mined at the Mineria LyC coal mine in Tausa -- have dropped dramatically since President Gustavo Petro's ban on sales to Israel

Colombia coal exports plummet after ban on Israel sales

The settlement of Chinese Camp dates back to the mid-19th century as a huge gold rush brought tens of thousands of prospectors to California

Sparked by lightning storms

Wildfire tears through California gold rush town

''This is a patent from a crucial stage when he had invented the detonator and was moving forward towards dynamite,' Ulf Larsson said,' said curator Ulf Larsson

Lost for 50 years, Nobel patents found in Swedish summer home

The latest research says the global capacity for safely storing carbon underground is much lower than previously assume

Not a limitless ressource

Treat carbon storage like 'scarce resource': scientists

UN climate chief Simon Stiell has called the next round of national plans on global warming 'the cornerstone of humanity's fight against the challenge

New commitments

UN pushes nations to submit overdue climate plans

Up to a third of 13- to 16-year-olds in England are believed to consume energy drinks, some of which contain more caffeine than two cups of coffee, the government says

Tackling root causes of poor health

England moves to ban sale of energy drinks to children

Images of an Instagrammer drinking offerings from a Japanese burial site, have sparked widespread anger online

'Fame-seeking foreigners'

Anger in Japan after Instagrammer drinks burial site offering

Faced with weak market conditions, the company last year suspended construction of the renewables biofuel factory in Rotterdam that was intended to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and diesel from waste

Shell abandons huge biofuel project in Netherlands

A member of Greek wildlife protection group Anima treats a turtle burned in a forest fire

Animal clinics report

'Roasted alive': Greek wildlife suffers as climate changes

China endured its hottest summer on record in 2025

Some citrus farmers in Turkey lost nearly 40 percent of produce to frost, hail and a heatwave this season

40 percent of produce affected

Frost, hail, heat sour season for Turkey's lemon growers

A judge in Honduras has ordered three men to stand trial for the murder of Honduran environmentalist Juan Lopez, seen here in 2021 as he watched the Guapinol river in Honduras

Judge orders trial in murder of Honduran conservationist

Pari island residents Edi (L) and Asmania pose next to the factory of Swiss cement giant Holcim in Eclepens, western Switzerland

Seeking compensation

Indonesian islanders taking Swiss cement giant to court over climate

A Trump administration climate report falsely claimed US temperatures are not rising, among other allegations

Merchants of doubt

'Mockery of science': US experts blast Trump climate report

President Donald announces that US Space Command headquarters will move from Colorado to Alabama, in remarks at the White House on September 2, 2025

Reversing Biden's decision

Trump announces US Space Command move to Alabama

The world's largest iceberg is breaking up

Could disappear within weeks

Once king of the seas, a giant iceberg is finally breaking up

A boy shoots hoops at sunset on August 19, 2025 in San Pedro, California amid a brutal heat wave

440-page rebuttal

'Mockery of science': US experts blast Trump climate report

Flooding in India's Punjab state killed at least 29 people and affected over 250,000 others in August

At least 29 dead

Villages marooned after deadly floods in India's Punjab

Plastic fish-shaped soy sauce containers will be banned in South Australia as part of a state crackdown on single-use plastic

From charm to harm

South Australia bans plastic fish-shaped soy sauce containers

Spain was badly hit by a succession of heatwaves and drought this summer, fuelling a wave of wildfires

Four dead, thousands evacuated

Spain PM says planning for deadly wildfires 'clearly insufficient'

Blood moon rising

Luxembourg to experience lunar eclipse on Sunday

An engineer works on a flywheel energy storage system at Levistor's workshop in southwest London

Age-old technology

Britain's energy grid bets on flywheels to keep the lights on

Residents of the tiny Indonesian island of Pari want Swiss cement giant Holcim to pay for what they say is its share of the climate change that threatens their home

Demanding compensation

Indonesian islanders taking Swiss concrete giant to court over climate

Sea change: the floaters convert the power of waves into an electrical current

Useable electricity

New wave: Sea power turned into energy at Los Angeles port

Nearly half a million people were displaced by flooding in eastern Pakistan after days of heavy rain swelled rivers, and authorities carried out a major rescue operation

Historic rescue operation

Pakistan evacuates half a million people stranded by floods

The return of the Pleiades

The Luxembourg night sky in September

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