Wildfires rage across million acres as heat wave stifles western US, Canada
by Andrew MARSZAL LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) -- Wildfires were burning across more than one million acres of the…
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Goats: unlikely allies in California’s fight against wildfires
by Inès BEL AIBA GLENDALE, United States (AFP) -- Their mission, should they choose to accept it, is simple: graze.…
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Millions sweltering in US west as Canada takes emergency steps
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) -- Millions of people across the western United States and Canada were hit Sunday by…
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N. America heat wave ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change: study
by Issam AHMED WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- A record-breaking heat wave that hit the western United States and Canada…
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Approximately 1,000 evacuated as Canadian fires engulf town
VANCOUVER, Canada (AFP) -- About 1,000 people were evacuated in western Canada, authorities said Thursday, as fires raged amid an…
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UN confirms 18.3C record heat in Antarctica
by Robin MILLARD GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) -- The United Nations on Thursday recognized a new record high temperature for the…
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Moscow melts in historic June heat wave
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) -- Moscow has been hit by a historic heat wave this week, with temperatures reaching a 120-year…
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‘No time to waste’ warns Japan climate activist
by Natsuko FUKUE Agence France-Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) - Kimiko Hirata has spent nearly half her life fighting to wean…
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Arctic sea ice thinning faster than expected, new study shows
by Joe JACKSON LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) -- Sea ice in the Arctic's coastal regions may be thinning up to…
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Global warming blamed for 1 in 3 heat-related deaths
by Marlowe HOOD PARIS, France (AFP) -- More than a third of summer heat-related fatalities are due to climate change,…
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Iceland’s glaciers lose 750 km2 in 20 years
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AFP) -- Iceland's glaciers have lost around 750 square kilometers (290 square miles), or seven percent of their…
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California already in throes of drought as summer looms
by Laurent BANGUET OROVILLE, United States (AFP) -- Summer has not even begun and Lake Oroville, the second-largest reservoir in…
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