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ENVIRONMENT

Climate change

Climate change
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A sign displays a temperature of 45 degrees Celsius in Thionville, northeastern France, on July 2.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Climate change led to at least 16,500 heat deaths in Europe this summer
Europe is the world’s fastest-warming continent and the Mediterranean is a hot spot for climate change.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Rising oceans to threaten 1.5 million Australians by 2050, report says
Sea level rises pose a significant threat to homes, livelihoods, and cultural connections — particularly in locations such as the Torres Strait Islands.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
U.S. moves to scrap emissions reporting by polluters
U.S. President Donald Trump has heavily promoted new oil, gas, and coal extraction while moving to suppress competition from solar and wind.
The Sau Reservoir in Vilanova de Sau in Catalonia, an area of Spain that has been suffering from drought, on Aug. 25
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Sep 9, 2025
Drought hit over half of Europe in mid-August, EU data shows
More than three quarters of Portugal was affected by drought, with the country also experiencing devastating wildfires.
Scorched land following a wildfire in the village of San Vicente de Leira, in Galicia, Spain, on Aug. 21
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Sep 5, 2025
How Europe lost an area the size of Cyprus to wildfires this year
By Laura Millan and Joe Wertz
Climate change is playing a major role in Europe, the world's fastest-warming continent, as searing heat and drought fueled this summer’s blazes.
Fumes rise from the coal-fired Hunter Power Plant in Castle Dale, Utah, in 2024. A 141-page Energy Department report challenged by more than 85 scientists in a joint analysis appeared almost in tandem with a proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency to rescind a 2009 endangerment finding — the bedrock of many U.S. greenhouse gas regulations.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Sep 3, 2025
Scientists assail ‘cherry-picking’ of Trump administration climate report
By Eric Roston
The report appeared almost in tandem with a proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency to rescind a 2009 finding that's the bedrock of many U.S. greenhouse gas regulations.
A Kurdish member of the Dohuk Antiquities Department works on a grave unearthed along the banks of Mosul Dam on an archaeological site in the Khanke sub-district of Dohuk Governorate on Saturday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Aug 31, 2025
Ancient tombs unearthed in Iraq due to drought
The tombs, believed to be over 2,300 years old, were unearthed at the edges of the Mosul Dam reservoir in the Khanke region of Iraq's Duhok province.
A wildfire burns in Garano, northwestern Spain, on Monday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Aug 27, 2025
Record wildfires burn more than 1 million hectares of EU land this year
By Kate Abnett
Spain and Portugal have been worst hit and together accounted for around two-thirds of the EU's burnt area.
A wildfire burns near the village of Esposende, in the northwestern Spanish municipality of Cenlle, on Aug. 17.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Aug 25, 2025
Spain's 16-day heat wave is 'most intense on record'
Forest fires are still burning across northern and western Spain, as well as in neighboring Portugal.
Agricultural workers harvest jasmine flowers at sunrise at a field in the village of Shubra Balula in Egypt's northern Nile delta province of Gharbiya on July 7.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Aug 25, 2025
Egyptian farmers behind world's perfumes face climate fight alone
By Menna Farouk
Jasmine has sustained thousands of Egyptian farmers for generations, but rising temperatures, prolonged dry spells and climate-driven pests are putting that legacy at risk.

Wealthy foreign nationals picking up ultimate souvenir — a condo in Tokyo
A high-end property in the fashionable Daikanyama district in Tokyo
Japan dispatches five language education 'partners' to India
Five members of the Japan Foundation's Nihongo Partners program (front) gather at the Japanese Embassy in New Delhi on Monday.
Struggling train firm in Chiba Prefecture turns to self-deprecating humor
"Laughter is important when you're in a difficult situation," said Katsunori Takemoto, president of Choshi Electric Railway, on Aug. 5 in Choshi, Chiba Prefecture.
Japan's elderly population down at around 36.2 million
The estimated number of people age 65 or older in Japan stands at 36.19 million as of Monday, accounting for record 29.4% of the country's total population, according to the internal affairs ministry.
China says Philippine ship ‘deliberately rammed’ coast guard vessel in South China Sea
A China Coast Guard ship navigates near the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea in August.

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Sumadori Bar on Shibuya Ward's main Center Gai street targets young customers who prefer low-alcohol drinks or abstain altogether.
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