ENVIRONMENT

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US moves to open vast tracts of pristine forests to logging
Aug 18, 2026 (AFP)
President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday proposed a rule change that would open 44 million acres of wild, undisturbed forest for road construction and...
Climate change main driver of European ocean warming: study
Aug 18, 2026 (AFP)
Climate change is the main driver of Europe's rising marine temperatures, directly adding around 2C of warming in the Mediterranean this summer and severely imp...
Whales spark joy in New York but face threats from boat traffic
Aug 18, 2026 (AFP)
"WHALE AT ONE O'CLOCK!"
Fires near Greek capital controlled after claiming two lives
Aug 17, 2026 (AFP)
Two fires on the Greek island of Salamis near Athens that claimed two lives and led to the evacuation of nearly 600 people have been largely extinguished, the f...
Belgium fire halts short of German border, but not 'contained'
Aug 17, 2026 (AFP)
Firefighters and farmers backed by water-dropping aircraft battled through a fourth day Monday to tame Belgium's worst wildfire in a century, still burning thro...
Rain brings respite as Belgium wrestles massive wildfire
Aug 17, 2026 (AFP)
Much-needed rain brought some respite Monday to firefighters on their fourth day battling Belgium's worst wildfire in a century, which has scorched vast expanse...
Europe wildfires: latest developments
Aug 17, 2026 (AFP)
Firefighters in Belgium battled to contain the country's worst wildfire in a century on Monday, while Greece said a deadly blaze near Athens had been controlled...
US pauses construction of border project in Texas national park
Aug 17, 2026 (AFP)
President Donald Trump's administration said Monday it had paused construction on a $1.7 billion border project at Big Bend National Park in Texas that has face...
Europe wildfires: latest developments
Aug 17, 2026 (AFP)
Firefighters in Belgium battled to contain the country's worst wildfire in a century on Monday, while Greece said a deadly blaze near Athens had been controlled...
Residents jeer French PM on visit to fire-hit region
Aug 17, 2026 (AFP)
Dozens of residents on Monday jeered the French prime minister as he arrived in a region hit by wildfires earlier this summer, in a show of anger over the gover...
'Never seen one like it': German pensioners flee wildfire
Aug 17, 2026 (AFP)
German pensioner Petra Mertens did not hesitate when ordered to evacuate her home in the sleepy western border town of Monschau as an enormous fire advanced fro...
US man killed by lightning on Sicily's Mount Etna
Aug 17, 2026 (AFP)
A US man has died after being struck by lightning on Sicily's Mount Etna volcano, Italian firefighters told AFP Monday.
Two largest US reservoirs hit record lows amid western drought
Aug 17, 2026 (AFP)
The two largest reservoirs in the United States have fallen to record lows as a severe drought grips the country's West, according to data released over the wee...
US pauses construction of border project in Texas national park
Aug 17, 2026 (AFP)
President Donald Trump's administration said Monday it was pausing construction on a $1.7 billion border project at Big Bend National Park in Texas that has fac...
Indian marble waste dump becomes unlikely tourist attraction
Aug 17, 2026 (AFP)
A sprawling expanse of white marble waste in India is drawing tourists, filmmakers and social media enthusiasts to a landscape that looks more like a snow-cover...
French PM announces help for fire-hit regions after jeers from locals
Aug 17, 2026 (AFP)
French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu on Monday announced measures to help residents of the southwest hit by wildfires rebuild their lives, after being jeered...
The Nigerian fishing community being eaten up by the Atlantic
Aug 17, 2026 (AFP)
The beach shrinks every year in Ayetoro, in southern Nigeria, and what is left is peppered with the remains of homes swallowed by the ocean -- some years ago, s...
Europe wildfires: latest developments
Aug 17, 2026 (AFP)
Firefighters in Belgium battled to contain the country's worst wildfire in a century on Monday, while Greece said a deadly blaze near Athens had been controlled...
Stubborn vulture plucked from plane's wing before Greece flight: report
Aug 17, 2026 (AFP)
A vulture who refused to budge had to be removed from the wing of a flight awaiting takeoff on the Greek island of Crete, in order to avoid potential damage to ...
Germany's coalition split over putting climate in constitution
Aug 17, 2026 (AFP)
As much of Europe swelters under a heatwave, a group of German ministers wants to enshrine climate protection in the constitution, a plan that sparked pushback ...
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