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Wildfires and heat waves are making it harder for countries to clean the air, the World Meteorological Organization warned in a new bulletin released on September 7 for the International Day of Clean Air for blue skies…
Nepal's catastrophic flood has intensified scrutiny of damaged sensors, cross-border data sharing and the minutes available to warn communities downstream.
A proposed hyperscale data centre in North Ockendon could produce more than one million tonnes of carbon emissions annually, planning documents estimate.
Climate change is driving record heat in Europe's seas, scientists say, with the Mediterranean warming nearly 2 degrees Celsius because of human activity. The Express Tribune world feed reported that peak temperatures…
A NASA-supported monitoring network has produced a detailed three-year picture of PM2.5 and black carbon pollution across Ethiopia's capital.
Retailers across Great Britain have been ordered to stop selling single-use barbecues temporarily as drought and heat drive severe wildfire conditions.
Astronaut photographs published by NASA show smoke surrounding Mount Hood and Mount Rainier as major fires affect air quality and communities.
Cameroon's Emmanuel Eseme defied torrential Glasgow rain to win the men's 100 metres in a Commonwealth Games record time, while New Zealand's Zoe Hobbs surged to a surprise women's victory.
NASA's Landsat 8 satellite has captured before-and-after imagery of Castle Valley, Utah, showing the dramatic transformation of a former coal-mining region into the site of the Green River Energy Center, a solar and…
Yemen’s oil wealth could ease a severe economic squeeze if exports resume, yet persistent security risks still cloud the country’s path back to
Campaigners have warned that a government push to expand the UK poultry sector could carry national security risks, arguing that the plan sits uneasily with Britain’s dependence on imported animal feed and the…
Heatwaves, high energy prices and calls for reindustrialisation and North Sea drilling all rank high on the to-do list facing Andy Burnham as he becomes Britain's next prime minister.