July was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth, the European Union's climate observatory has confirmed.
Marked by heatwaves and fires all around the world, July 2023 was 0.33 degrees Celsius higher than the record set in July 2019 when the average
Read more…Nearly 1,000 firefighters were battling a wildfire in southern Portugal today that has been raging for four days, scorching thousands of hectares and forcing the evacuation of around 1,400 people.
The wildfire started on Saturday in the municipality o
Read more…Hundreds of firefighters scrambled to put out a blaze raging in southern Portugal that has scorched thousands of hectares of land and forced the precautionary evacuation of around 1,400 people.
The wildfire, currently being tackled by over 800 firefig
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The remnants of Typhoon “Doksuri” battered northern China from July 29 to August 1, 2023, unloading an entire year’s worth of rainfall and triggering devastating floods. The worst affected were Beijing and Hebei’s Zhuozhou where more than 1.2 million
Read more…A forest fire on Spain's Mediterranean coast near the French border is spreading rapidly, fed by strong winds and surrounding a popular tourist site.
The blaze in the Portbou area burned around 200 hectares in three hours and could spread over 400 hec
Read more…Residents in the Clontarf area of Dublin had to leave their homes following flash flooding this morning.
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The oceans have hit their hottest ever recorded temperature as they soak up warmth from climate change, with dire implications for our planet's health.
The average daily global sea surface temperature beat a 2016 record this week, according to the EU'
Pope Francis has met 13 victims of clerical sexual abuse this evening, the Vatican has said, on the first day of his visit to Portugal for a major Catholic youth festival.
The Pope said the Catholic Church needs a "humble and ongoing purification" to
Read more…Flights were cancelled and tens of thousands of people were advised to evacuate their homes as powerful typhoon Khanun approached Japan's southern Okinawa island chain, threatening torrential rains and high winds through to Thursday.
Residents in the
Read more…Provisional data from Met Éireann suggests July was the wettest month on record in Ireland.
Paul Moore, a climatologist with Met Éireann, said four times as much rain fell in Ireland in July compared to the same month last year, and that more unsettle
Read more…Tens of thousands of people were evacuated from their homes in Beijing as the remnants of Typhoon Doksuri dumped record rainfall on the city, grounding flights and flooding hundreds of roads.
Beijing issued its highest alert for flooding and landslide
Read more…Authorities have evacuated nearly 2,500 people from the Greek island of Corfu as crews fight several wildfires in heat-battered Greece.
Tens of thousands of people have already fled blazes on the island of Rhodes, with many frightened tourists scrambl
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