Mon 07 September 2026: DeepLitterAI can identify marine litter nearly twice as fast as humans and may support real-time monitoring Japanese researchers have developed an artificial intelligence system designed to improve the detection of plastic waste on the seabed, local media reported Thursday. The system, known as DeepLitterAI, was created by scientists at the Japan […]
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Sat 05 September 2026: France recorded around 7,000 excess deaths through the end of July amid successive heat waves across the country, Health Minister Stephanie Rist said Friday. A new assessment put the number of excess deaths through the end of July at 7,000 as France saw several heat waves during the summer, according to […]
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Wed 02 September 2026: Scientists warn corals are losing the recovery time they need as rising ocean temperatures drive increasingly frequent bleaching Coral reefs are being hit by bleaching events so often that they are no longer getting enough time to recover, putting ecosystems around the world at risk of an irreversible decline, scientists have […]
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Tue 01 September 2026: Met Office says summer 2026 was the UK’s warmest since records began, with climate change dramatically increasing the likelihood of the exceptional temperatures The United Kingdom experienced its hottest summer on record in 2026, according to provisional figures released by the Met Office on Tuesday, as unusually warm and dry conditions […]
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Tue 01 September 2026: Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s call comes after wildfires killed at least 12 people and injured 54 in northeastern Algeria. Algeria’s President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has called for the death penalty for anyone who deliberately starts a forest fire after at least 12 people died in wildfires in the country’s northeast. Tebboune ordered Algeria’s justice […]
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Fri 28 August 2026: On Friday, China indicated that a high-altitude glacier collapse in Nepal might have set off the cross-border catastrophe that claimed at least 480 lives, while President Xi Jinping urged officials to make “every effort” to locate every missing Chinese and foreign national. “We noted that experts and official institutions of China […]
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Fri 28 August 2026: Copernicus warns of ‘unprecedented strain’ on world’s oceans as El Nino and climate change drive up sea surface temperatures. The average global sea surface temperature has reached its highest level on record, a European Union agency said, warning that a rapidly intensifying El Nino and human-caused climate change were putting “unprecedented strain” on […]
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Thu 27 August 2026: At least 160 people have been killed and hundreds remain missing after a devastating flash flood swept through northern Nepal, destroying villages, roads, bridges and power infrastructure near the border with Tibet. Nepal Police said late on Wednesday that 157 bodies had been recovered, while emergency teams continued searching for survivors […]
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Mon 24August 2026: Authorities are bracing for elevated threats of drought, floods, severe heat, and wildfires, as a swiftly intensifying El Niño heightens the chance of an unprecedented climate event later this year. Sri Lanka has organized water deliveries for nearly 72,000 residents in seven districts while confronting a drought tied to this year’s intense […]
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Sat 22 August 2026: Australian wildlife authorities are vaccinating thousands of little penguins against H5 bird flu in a major effort to protect the species. The campaign, which began Monday, targets up to 5,000 little penguins on Victoria’s Phillip Island and at St Kilda in Melbourne. The birds will receive two doses of the vaccine, […]
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