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Kenya's economy faces climate change risks: World Bank
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China's ambassador warns Australia on buyback of key port
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Samsung Electronics posts record profit on AI demand
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French Senate adopts bill to return colonial-era art
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Anti-immigration protesters force climbdown in Sundance documentary
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Springsteen releases fiery ode to Minneapolis shooting victims
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Neil Young gifts music to Greenland residents for stress relief
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Fear in Sicilian town as vast landslide risks widening
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King Charles III warns world 'going backwards' in climate fight
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Court orders Dutch to protect Caribbean island from climate change
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Rules-based trade with US is 'over': Canada central bank head
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Holocaust survivor urges German MPs to tackle resurgent antisemitism
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'Extraordinary' trove of ancient species found in China quarry
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Google unveils AI tool probing mysteries of human genome
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UK proposes to let websites refuse Google AI search
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Trump says 'time running out' as Iran threatens tough response
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Germany cuts growth forecast as recovery slower than hoped
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Amazon to cut 16,000 jobs worldwide
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Greenland dispute is 'wake-up call' for Europe: Macron
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Dollar halts descent, gold keeps climbing before Fed update
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Sweden plans to ban mobile phones in schools
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Deutsche Bank offices searched in money laundering probe
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Susan Sarandon to be honoured at Spain's top film awards
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Trump says 'time running out' as Iran rejects talks amid 'threats'
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Spain eyes full service on train tragedy line in 10 days
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Greenland dispute 'strategic wake-up call for all of Europe,' says Macron
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Polish migrants return home to a changed country
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Dutch tech giant ASML posts bumper profits, eyes bright AI future
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Minnesota congresswoman unbowed after attacked with liquid
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Backlash as Australia kills dingoes after backpacker death
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Omar attacked in Minneapolis after Trump vows to 'de-escalate'
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Dollar struggles to recover from losses after Trump comments
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Greenland blues to Delhi red carpet: EU finds solace in India
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French ex-senator found guilty of drugging lawmaker
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US Fed set to pause rate cuts as it defies Trump pressure
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Trump says will 'de-escalate' in Minneapolis after shooting backlash
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CERN chief upbeat on funding for new particle collider
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Iraqi farmer Umm Ali has watched her poultry die as salinity levels in the country's south hit record highs, rendering already scarce water unfit for human consumption and killing livestock.
Fatal bear attacks in Japan hit record number
Bears have killed a record number of people in Japan this year, the environment ministry said on Thursday just as another possible victim was reported missing.
Australian rainforests no longer a carbon sink: study
Australia's tropical rainforests are among the first in the world to start leaking more carbon dioxide than they absorb, scientists said Thursday as they linked the worrying trend to climate change.
Climate advisers warn UK to prepare for 2C warming by 2050
UK climate advisers warned the government for the first time on Wednesday to prepare for 2C of global warming by 2050, stressing current efforts to adapt to extreme weather were not enough.
Brazil's climate wins ahead of COP30
Brazil's president has slashed deforestation in the Amazon and worked to better protect Indigenous people, giving him a generally positive environmental record as he prepares to host COP30 UN climate talks in a month.
Brazil hopes Amazon summit can unite world for climate action
Brazil is betting its much-hyped climate summit in the Amazon next month can deliver something increasingly rare in a fractured world: proof that nations can still unite to confront a global crisis.
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Climate cooperation is facing a reckoning. Ten years after the landmark Paris Agreement, major polluters are wavering on action while the world fast approaches the deal's safer warming limit.
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This year's United Nations climate summit promises to be symbolic, marking a decade since the Paris Agreement and taking place in the environmentally vulnerable Amazon. But what is actually on the agenda?
World's coral reefs crossing survival limit: global experts
The world's tropical coral reefs have almost certainly crossed a point of no return as oceans warm beyond a level most can survive, a major scientific report announced on Monday.
In minutes, Mexico's rains swept away homes and people
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Top nature group to unveil new 'red list' of threatened species
The world's top conservation body is holding its world congress starting Thursday in the Emirati capital Abu Dhabi and will unveil its updated "red list" of threatened species.
Veggie 'burgers' face the chop as EU lawmakers back labeling ban
Plant-based "steaks" and "veggie burgers" may be on the way out in the European Union after the bloc's parliament voted Wednesday to restrict such labels to meat only, in a win for disgruntled farmers.
Wildlife flee as floods swamp Indian parks
A herd of elephants, along with tigers and leopards, have escaped after raging floods in India submerged two of West Bengal's famed wildlife sanctuaries, state officials said Wednesday.
Record flooding hits Vietnam city, eight killed in north
Record floods submerged streets in several communities in Vietnam on Wednesday, with at least eight people killed this week, the government said.
New Zealand's seas warming faster than global average: report
The seas around New Zealand are warming much faster than global averages, scientists said Wednesday in a new study warning how climate change could batter the island nation.
Renewables overtake coal but growth slows: reports
Solar and wind farms generated more electricity than coal for the first time on record this year, but US and Chinese policy shifts are slowing growth, putting a global 2030 target out of reach, reports said on Tuesday.
Common inhalers carry heavy climate cost, study finds
The inhalers people depend on to breathe are also warming the planet, producing annual emissions equivalent to more than half a million cars in the United States alone, researchers said Monday in a major new study.
China trials 'energy-saving' underwater data centres
Power-hungry data centres run hot, so one Chinese company is planning to submerge a pod of servers in the sea off Shanghai with hopes of solving computing's energy woes.
Rising wildfires spur comeback for Canadian water bomber
The Canadair water bomber revolutionized the fight against wildfires after it debuted in the skies decades ago.
Jane Goodall: crusader for chimpanzees and the planet
British primatologist Jane Goodall imitated chimpanzees, sat with them in trees and shared their bananas during her trail-blazing research in Tanzania into the apes' true nature.
Hurricane Imelda bound for Bermuda as a Cat 2 storm
Hurricane Imelda, now a Category 2 storm, was churning toward Bermuda on Wednesday with sustained winds of 100 mph (160 kph), threatening damaging waves and flooding.
Typhoon Bualoi batters Vietnam coast, killing 11
Typhoon Bualoi ripped roofs from buildings and uprooted electrical poles along Vietnam's coast, killing at least 11 people, local and national officials said on Monday.
400,000 evacuated, 3 dead as fresh storm batters Philippines
The Philippines evacuated hundreds of thousands of people and confirmed at least three deaths Friday as a severe tropical storm battered the country, still feeling the effects of Super Typhoon Ragasa.
Clean-up underway in southern China after Typhoon Ragasa sweeps through
Hundreds of thousands of people in southern China were clearing up Thursday after powerful Typhoon Ragasa crashed through Guangdong Province, ripping down trees, destroying fences, and blasting signs off buildings.