Climate protest in Paris foiled on first day of Olympics
AFP PARIS – French police on July 27 blocked climate activists from holding a demonstration in central Paris on the first official day of the Olympic Games. Protesters from Extinction…
Rain, cooling slow huge blaze in Canada’s Jasper park
AFP HINTON, Canada – Rain and cooler temperatures were helping firefighters battling a huge forest fire that has devastated part of the popular tourist town of Jasper in western Canada,…
Streets turned into rivers as Typhoon Gaemi blows past Philippines
AFP MANILA – Relentless rain drenched the northern Philippines on Wednesday, triggering floods in Manila and landslides in mountainous regions as Typhoon Gaemi intensified the seasonal monsoon. In the densely…
July 21 hottest day ever recorded globally: EU climate monitor
AFP July 21 was the hottest day ever registered globally, according to preliminary data published Tuesday by the EU’s climate monitor. The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said the global…
South Africa’s Ramaphosa enshrines climate targets into law
Bloomberg Cape Town – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed a landmark bill that will compel all levels of government to take climate considerations into account when setting budgets…
DR Congo conflict fuels forest loss
Reuters KIBATI, Democratic Republic of Congo – Under the denuded slopes of Mount Nyiragongo volcano in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, traders in Kibati town bartered over sacks of charcoal,…
63 missing after Nepal landslide sweeps two buses into river
Kathmandu – At least 63 people were missing in Nepal on Friday after a landslide triggered by heavy monsoon rains swept two buses off a highway and into a river,…
Hurricane Beryl intensifying as it nears Houston, warning of ‘deadly storm’
Reuters Hurricane Beryl strengthened as it neared the Texas coast on Sunday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said, forcing the closure of major oil ports, flight cancellations and a…
Mexico girds for hit from Hurricane Beryl
Agence France-Presse Tourist resorts in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula girded Thursday for a hit from Hurricane Beryl, which is still packing ferocious winds after slamming Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Beryl…
Hurricane Beryl, churning toward Jamaica, threatens Haiti and Dominican Republic
Reuters Hurricane Beryl barreled toward Jamaica as a powerful Category 4 storm on Wednesday, after flattening homes and devastating agriculture on smaller islands in the eastern Caribbean, killing at least…