SEARCH FOR MISSING TEXAS CHILDREN CONTINUES AS TOLL FROM FLOODS RISES TO 50

Sun 06 July 2025: Authorities in US state face questions about whether they issued proper warnings in advance of rain-fuelled flooding. Rescuers in the United States are scrambling to find dozens of children who went missing from a Christian summer camp in the state of Texas during flash floods triggered by a powerful storm, as the death […]

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STATE OF EMERGENCY DECLARED AFTER DEVASTATING WILDFIRE IN EASTERN CRETE

Fri 04 July 2025: Authorities on Friday declared a state of emergency in parts of the municipality of Ierapetra following a devastating wildfire in eastern Crete that has since been brought largely under control, local media reported on Friday. Erupting Wednesday near Ierapetra amid dry, windy conditions, the fire has burned down thousands of acres […]

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CHINESE SPACECRAFT TAKES PICTURES OF MOON, EARTH FROM 336,509 MILES AWAY

 Images of Earth and the moon captured by the Tianwen 2 robotic probe are released on July 1, 2025 by the China National Space Administration. The pictures were taken by the probe’s narrow-field-of-view navigation sensor when it was about 590,000 kilometers from Earth. (CHINA NATIONAL SPACE ADMINISTRATION / XINHUA) Fri 04 July 2025: China’s Tianwen […]

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EXTREME WEATHER COSTS EUROPE BILLIONS IN DAMAGE

Thu 03 July 2025: Extreme weather and climate-related events cost Europe billions of euros every year, according to an analysis by the European Environment Agency (EEA) published on Wednesday. The report found that the economic damage caused by such events in 38 European countries amounted to more than €45 billion (about $53 billion) in the most recent comparison year, […]

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SOUTHERN EUROPE ROASTS AS TEMPERATURES SOAR

Tue 01 July 2025: A punishing heatwave gripped southern Europe on June 30, prompting authorities to issue health and wildfire warnings as temperatures are expected to soar again. France, Italy, Portugal and Spain have been sweltering for several days as the mercury climbed to 44 degrees Celsius in some places. “This is unprecedented,” Agnes Pannier-Runacher, France’s ecology transition minister said as […]

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UK SCIENTISTS TURN PLASTIC WASTE INTO PARACETAMOL USING ENGINEERED BACTERIA

Fri 27 June 2025: Scientists in the UK have successfully converted plastic waste into the painkiller paracetamol using genetically modified bacteria, offering a potential solution to both plastic pollution and fossil fuel dependence. Researchers from the University of Edinburgh developed a method to break down PET plastics—commonly used in bottles and food packaging—and produce paracetamol from the resulting material. […]

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OVER 110M PEOPLE IN EUROPE EXPOSED TO HARMFUL NOISE POLLUTION: REPORT

Wed 25 June 2025: More than 110 million people across Europe are exposed to harmful noise pollution, leading to an estimated 66,000 premature deaths annually, a new report by the European Environment Agency (EEA) said Tuesday. According to the report, transport noise is one of Europe’s leading environmental health risks, following air pollution and temperature-related […]

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ANTARCTICA’S EMPEROR PENGUIN POPULATION DECLINING FASTER THAN THOUGHT: REPORT

Sun 15 June 2025: The emperor penguin population in Antarctica is declining “worse than the worst-case projections,” according to a new study released on Tuesday. The study, based on a new analysis of satellite imagery by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), found the penguins’ numbers declined 22% over a 15-year period in a key sector […]

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WHY ANTI-TRAFFICKING MEASURES ALONE WON’T SAVE AFRICA’S PANGOLINS

Sat 14 June 2025: Nigeria accounts for the largest volume of detected pangolin scales illegally traded from Africa. Between 2010 and 2021, 190,000kg of scales – representing nearly 800,000 African pangolins – were seized in shipments linked to Nigeria, despite a ban on international trade. Pangolins are scaly mammals found across Asia and Africa. They are considered the world’s most […]

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MONTH OF MAY WAS WORLD’S SECOND-WARMEST ON RECORD: EU SCIENTISTS

Fri 13 June 2025: The biggest temperature increases were recorded in the Middle East, West Asia, northeast Russia, and north Canada. This year, the world experienced its second-warmest month of May since records began, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) has said in a monthly bulletin. Global surface temperatures last month averaged 1.4 […]

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