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Firefighters and residents have been trying to put out fires near the Greek city of Patras

Ravaging the countryside

Thousands battle Greece fires as heatwave bakes Europe

Fallen trees lie on motorcycles following strong winds brought by Typhoon Podul in Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Thousands of people sheltered

Storm makes landfall in China after raking Taiwan as typhoon

Five previous rounds over the past two and a half years failed to seal an agreement on dealing with plastic pollution

Penultimate day of talks

Plastic pollution treaty talks in disarray

The floating light green aquatic lettuce (Pistia stratiotes) that feeds on chemical pollution has covered Lake Suchitlan in El Salvador, causing an environmental emergency that has paralyzed artisanal fishing and free navigation of tourists

Feeds on chemical pollution

'Water lettuce' chokes tourism, fishing at El Salvador lake

Second worst fire season

Massive fire burns on mountain near western Canada city

When Romans swelter in a heatwave, they turn to the traditional 'grattachecca'

In heatwave, Romans turn to vintage snow cones to stay cool

Canadian artist Benjamin Von Wong's sculpture 'The Thinker's Burden', sited outside the UN, is being slowly covered in plastic during the treaty talks in Geneva

Deadlocked plastics treaty talks 'at cliff's edge'

The SolarStratos plane has 22 square metres of solar panels on its wings

Swiss pilot surpasses solar-powered plane altitude record

The Lady's Slipper orchid was one of the species helped by the conservaion project

Conservation programme

150 species saved in England, but 'time running out' to halt decline

This picture taken from a commercial aircraft shows an aerial view of the Himalayan mountain range near Kathmandu

Influx of tourism

Nepal waives climbing fees for 97 mountain peaks

The rocket carrying the four-tonne satellite took off from France's Kourou space base in French Guyana

In age of climate change

European satellite to step up monitoring of extreme weather

Museums Victoria Researcher Ruairidh Duncan (L) and Palaeontologist Erich Fitzgerald with the partial fossil skull and teeth of Janjucetus dullardi in Melbourne

Scientists unearth 'cute' but fearsome ancient whale

Cooling down in Berlin on July 2, 2025, during an early summer heatwave across Europe

Scorching temperatures

Five key things about heatwaves in Europe

The German government wants to build more gas power plants

Conservative-led government

German gas drive fuels fears of climate backsliding

The 54-pound Martian meteorite NWA 16788, the largest known piece of Mars ever discovered on Earth, was sold for a record $5.3 million at Sotheby's New York

Auction of world's largest Mars meteorite sparks ownership debate

Berliners line up to take a dip in the Spree during a demonstration against the ban on swimming in the river

100-year-old ban

Berlin bathers demand lifting of swimming ban in Spree river

The equestrian centre employee was the first fatality from dozens of wildfires that have hit Spain since a heatwave began last week

Temperatures over 40°C

Three killed in European wildfires as heatwave intensifies

Water tanker overturned

Soldier dies battling Montenegro wildfire

Canadian artist Benjamin Von Wong's sculpture 'The Thinker's Burden', sited outside the UN, is being slowly covered in plastic during the treaty talks in Geneva

Geneva talks close Thursday

EU ready to do plastic pollution deal 'but not at any cost'

Banned in France since 2018, acetamiprid is legal in the European Union

Petition signed by over 2 million

France adopts law upholding ban on controversial insecticide

This satellite image from Maxar Technologies shows the destruction from the flood and landslides in Dharali

Toll of India Himalayan flood likely to be at least 70

Summer stingers

Tips for protecting yourself from wasps, especially if you're allergic

This illustration by Mauricio Alvarez depicts 'Yeutherium pressor,' a tiny mammal that lived in the time of the dinosaurs in what is now southern Chile

Pocket-sized discovery

Scientists find 74-million-year-old mammal fossil in Chile

Spanish firefighters struggled to contain a wildfire that damaged the Las Medulas Roman-era mining site

Child dies in Italy as European heatwave sets records and sparks wildfires

An Iraqi man fans his son at his home south of Hilla amid the heat of August

Temperatures up to 50°C

Iraq announces nationwide power outage amid 'record' heat

Director of the British Antarctic Survey Jane Francis says the discovery of the remains of a British meteorologist who died in an Antarctic expedition in 1959 brings closure

Identified by DNA

UK scientist's remains found on Antarctic glacier 66 years on

Talks are ongoing at the UN to try to craft a treaty on dealing with plastic pollution

Torn over fundamentals

Talks for landmark plastic pollution treaty grind on

All-time heat records were broken at meteorological stations in Bordeaux, Bergerac, Cognac and Saint Girons

August heatwave

Records smashed as new heatwave bakes southwest France

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