Environment - Page 40 of 116

California sequoia still smoldering after 2020 fires

LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) -- One of California's iconic giant sequoia trees was recently found to be still smoldering…

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SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) -- Sydney was enveloped in a thick bank of hazardous bushfire smoke Monday, forcing authorities in Australia's…

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BEIJING, China (AFP) -- A towering wall of sand rushed over factories and apartment blocks in northwestern China's Gansu province…

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by Patrick GALEY PARIS, France (AFP) -- The vast melting of Greenland's ice sheet caused by unusually high temperatures in…

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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) -- More than one million households and businesses in Taiwan's heavily industrialized central regions were put on…

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KATHMANDU, Nepal (AFP) -- Nepal is experiencing its worst fire season in almost a decade, officials said Tuesday, as huge…

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by Handrianus Emanuel LEMBATA, Indonesia (AFP) -- Indonesia's navy readied hospital ships Wednesday to help treat injured survivors of a…

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by Leila MACOR MIAMI, United States (AFP) -- Emergency crews in central Florida were working Sunday to prevent an environmental…

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LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) -- Ice sheet melting at the end of the last ice age may have caused sea…

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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- The US government on Monday unveiled plans to bolster offshore wind farms with the goal…

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By Agence France Presse From Singapore to Buenos Aires, cities around the world turned off their lights Saturday to…

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AFP) -- Seven people were injured and 15 more missing on Wednesday as forest fires ripped through…

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