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The Giro d'Italia's 16th stage was shortened due to hazardous weather conditions, including heavy snowfall, on Tuesday after riders had threatened not to take part in the start of day's racing.

Canadian oil city lifts wildfire evacuation orders
Residents forced to flee wildfires threatening a Canadian oil-producing hub were allowed to return home Saturday after evacuation orders were lifted.

US plans to end leasing in its largest coal-producing region
President Joe Biden's government on Thursday announced a plan to end coal leases in the Powder River Basin, the nation's largest coal-producing region, drawing condemnation from the mining sector and praise from environmentalists.

Global coral bleaching event expanding to new countries: scientists
The massive coral bleaching episode signaled by US authorities last month is expanding and deepening in reefs around the globe, scientists warned Thursday.

Brazil's Porto Alegre: a flood disaster waiting to happen
Porto Alegre, the Brazilian metropolis left submerged after torrential rains, had been lulled into a "false sense" of security by a vast but aging system of flood defenses, an urban drainage engineer told AFP.

Green policies can be vote winners, London mayor says
Green policies can win votes, London Mayor Sadiq Khan said Thursday, after winning a record third term despite the war he has waged on polluting vehicles.

Parts of Canadian city in oil sands region evacuated as wildfire draws near
Four neighborhoods of Fort McMurray, a city in Canada's major oil-producing region, were ordered evacuated Tuesday as an out of control wildfire drew near and the skies filled with smoke.

Summer 2023 was the hottest in 2,000 years: study
Last year's northern hemisphere summer was the hottest in 2,000 years, according to a new study published on Tuesday.

Brazil's flooded south paralyzed as rivers swell, again
Rivers in south Brazil rose anew Monday as flood rescue efforts intensified and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva conceded authorities had not been "prepared" for a disaster of such magnitude.
Twelve dead, 60 injured in India billboard collapse
Twelve people were killed and at least 60 injured after a billboard collapsed during a fierce storm in India's financial capital Mumbai, officials said Monday.

Environmental protests stop play at two Rome Open games
Environmental protestors stopped play at two matches at the Rome Open tennis tournament on Monday after invading courts in the Italian capital.

Chinese firms exit Romania solar tender after EU probe
Two Chinese-owned solar panel manufacturers have withdrawn from a public procurement tender in Romania after the EU launched an anti-subsidy probe, Brussels said Monday.

Loss and hope: US park rangers' climate crisis fight
American biologist Laura Brennan describes the coin-sized Karner blue butterfly as "very delicate and graceful" with a "lovely blue" coloring and "just a little speckling of orange."

Rivers rise again as rain batters flood-hit south Brazil
River levels were rising again Sunday as strong rains lashed waterlogged southern Brazil, where flooding has killed more than 140 people and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes.

Flash floods kill 62 in one day in north Afghanistan
The toll from deadly flash flooding that ripped through northern Afghanistan on Friday rose to 62 people, mainly women and children, an official said, in a country highly vulnerable to climate change.

Flash floods kill 50 in one day in north Afghanistan
At least 50 people, mainly women and children, were killed Friday in flash flooding that ripped through Afghanistan's Baghlan province, in the north of the country, a local official told AFP.

Envious shamans and pollution: Diverse threats to Ecuadoran Amazon
When fish numbers diminished in the Ecuadoran Amazon, the Siona Indigenous people blamed envious, rival shamans for blocking the animals' passage through the rivers of Cuyabeno, a biodiverse wetland.

Judge tosses California children's pollution suit against US govt
A federal lawsuit brought by a group of California children who claimed the US government was harming them by failing to clamp down on pollution has been tossed out by a judge.

Famed Thai holiday isles suffer water shortages after heatwave
The dazzling Thai holiday islands made famous by Hollywood film "The Beach" are facing a severe water shortage following a blistering heatwave across Asia, a tourism official and locals said Thursday.

2023 'year of record climatic hazards' in Latin America: UN
Latin America and the Caribbean had their warmest year on record in 2023 as a "double-whammy" of El Nino and climate change caused major weather calamities, the World Meteorological Organization said Wednesday.

April temperatures in Indonesia hottest for more than four decades
Indonesia experienced its hottest April in more than four decades, two senior weather agency officials said Wednesday, as the region endures a suffocating heatwave and global temperatures break records.

Ritacuba Blanco: death of a Colombian glacier
Just a few months ago, the Colombian mountain peak of Ritacuba Blanco was covered in an unbroken layer of white ice and snow, just as it had been for as long as anyone can remember.

No let up yet for flood-battered south Brazil
The rains may have abated, but floodwaters on Monday continued their assault on southern Brazil, with hundreds of municipalities in ruins amid fears that food and drinking water may soon run out.

Market-based schemes not reducing deforestation, poverty: report
Market-based approaches to forest conservation like carbon offsets and deforestation-free certification schemes have largely failed to protect trees or alleviate poverty, according to a major scientific review published on Monday.

Brazil mounts frantic rescue effort as flooding kills at least 78
Authorities in southern Brazil scrambled Sunday to rescue people from raging floods and mudslides in what has become the region's largest ever climate catastrophe, with at least 78 dead and 115,000 forced from their homes.

Brazil mounts frantic rescue effort as flooding kills 75
Authorities in southern Brazil scrambled Sunday to rescue people from raging floods and mudslides that have killed at least 75 and forced more than 88,000 to flee their homes.

Brazil mounts frantic rescue effort as flooding kills 66
Authorities in southern Brazil raced against the clock Sunday to rescue people from raging floods and mudslides that have killed at least 66 and forced more than 80,000 to flee their homes.

Race against time to rescue Brazil flood victims after dozens killed
Authorities were racing against time on Sunday to rescue people from raging floods and mudslides that have killed more than 50 and forced nearly 70,000 to flee their homes in southern Brazil.

Heatwave hammers Thailand's stinky but lucrative durian farms
Clambering hand-over-hand, sweat dripping into his eyes, a durian labourer expertly slices a cumbersome fruit from a tree before tossing it down to land with a soft thump in his colleague's waiting arms some 15 metres (50 feet) below.

Vietnam temperature records tumble as heatwave scorches
More than 100 temperature records fell across Vietnam in April, according to official data, as a deadly heatwave scorches South and Southeast Asia.

Heatwave swells Asia's appetite for air-conditioning
A record-breaking heatwave is broiling parts of Asia, helping drive surging demand for cooling options, including air-conditioning.

Rains, mudslides kill 29 in southern Brazil's 'worst disaster'
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday visited the country's south where floods and mudslides caused by torrential rains have killed 29 people, with the toll expected to rise.