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Fires in Canada's Jasper town coming under control, say authorities

Progress has been made suppressing fires in the Canadian tourist town of Jasper, with the remaining ones expected to be put out by the end of the day, authorities

Fires in Canada's Jasper town coming under control, say authorities
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Fires in the West are becoming ever bigger, consuming. Why and what can be done?

Experts say a massive wildfire in northern California and scores of smaller ones across the western U.S. and Canada are the legacy of the nation’s fire-suppression experts and climate change

Fires in the West are becoming ever bigger, consuming. Why and what can be done?
Environment|Europe|Travel

Glacial flood causes road to give way in southern Iceland

A glacial flood in southern Iceland inundated a ring road on Saturday, causing a section at one end of the nearby bridge to give way and tear apart, the country's meteorological

Glacial flood causes road to give way in southern Iceland
Environment|Health|News

Thirteen hikers, including children, rescued from high heat on Arizona trail

Thirteen hikers, including children, rescued from high heat on Arizona trail

Thirteen hikers, including children, rescued from high heat on Arizona trail
Environment|Europe

Hungary to allow nuclear plant to exceed Danube water temperature limit

Hungary is planning to allow the temperature limit for a section of the Danube which receives cooling water from the Paks nuclear power plant to be exceeded for security of supply

Hungary to allow nuclear plant to exceed Danube water temperature limit
Asia|Environment|News

Typhoon Gaemi forces evacuation, factory suspension in northeast China

More than 27,000 people in northeast China were evacuated and hundreds of factories were ordered to suspend production as Typhoon Gaemi brought heavy rains, the official Xinhua

Typhoon Gaemi forces evacuation, factory suspension in northeast China
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Timelapse footage shows 'fire tornado' in California

Timelapse video captured by a group studying natural disasters shows a “fire tornado” forming as the Park Fire spreads in Butte County, California.

Timelapse footage shows 'fire tornado' in California
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California’s Park Fire is now bigger than Phoenix while in Canada a blaze is scorching one of the largest national parks

California’s Park Fire is now bigger than Phoenix while in Canada a blaze is scorching one of the largest national parks

California’s Park Fire is now bigger than Phoenix while in Canada a blaze is scorching one of the largest national parks
Environment|Science

Life and death in the heat. What it feels like when Earth's temperatures soar to record highs

As the warming Earth sizzled through a week with four of the hottest days ever measured, the world focused on cold hard numbers that showed the average daily temperature for the entire planet

Life and death in the heat. What it feels like when Earth's temperatures soar to record highs
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Firefighters helped by cooler weather battle blaze that has scorched area size of Los Angeles

Thousands of firefighters battling a wildfire in northern California are getting some help from the weather just hours after the blaze exploded in size, scorching an area larger than Los Angeles

Firefighters helped by cooler weather battle blaze that has scorched area size of Los Angeles
Americas|Economy|Environment

Brazil seeks support for tropical forest preservation fund

Brazil is gathering support from other countries for the creation of a fund that will send resources to nations with tropical forests in order to preserve them, Finance

Brazil seeks support for tropical forest preservation fund
Economy|Environment|News|Travel

Fire, smoke upend western Canada's summer tourism season

Severe wildfire seasons are increasingly hurting western Canada's lucrative tourism industry, with some visitors beginning to avoid the busy late-

Fire, smoke upend western Canada's summer tourism season
Business|Economy|Environment|Technology

Rio Tinto, BYD and LG Energy show interest in Chile's Altoandinos lithium site

Twelve companies including global miner Rio Tinto and Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD have submitted proposals to extract lithium in Chile's Altoandinos salt flats, the state

Rio Tinto, BYD and LG Energy show interest in Chile's Altoandinos lithium site
Environment|News

Oregon wildfire explodes to half the size of Rhode Island

Winds and lightning strikes have sparked and fanned wildfires across the Pacific Northwest this week, including the largest fire currently burning in the U.S., which was

Oregon wildfire explodes to half the size of Rhode Island
Education|Environment|Science

Student program turns climate change lessons into real-world solutions

Student program turns climate change lessons into real-world solutions

Student program turns climate change lessons into real-world solutions
Americas|Environment|Political

US, Brazil to work together on climate partnership, says Yellen

The U.S. and Brazilian governments announced a climate partnership agenda on Friday, seeking to deepen ties on an issue they seen as key

US, Brazil to work together on climate partnership, says Yellen
Environment|News

Blaze in Canadian tourist town still out of control but rain helping firefighters

A massive wildfire that destroyed about a third of the western Canadian tourist town of Jasper is still out of control but rain and cooler

Blaze in Canadian tourist town still out of control but rain helping firefighters
Environment|Europe|Sports

Olympics-River Seine suitable for swimming six out of seven days from July 17-23

The Seine was suitable for swimming six days out of seven between July 17-23, data showed on the day of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony on Friday.

Olympics-River Seine suitable for swimming six out of seven days from July 17-23
Environment|News

California's largest wildfire explodes in size as fires rage across US West

California’s largest active fire has exploded in size, growing rapidly amid bone-dry fuel and threatening thousands of homes as firefighters scramble to meet the danger

California's largest wildfire explodes in size as fires rage across US West
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California’s Park Fire now among state’s top 13 largest ever as it consumes 239,000 acres

California’s Park Fire now among state’s top 13 largest ever as it consumes 239,000 acres

California’s Park Fire now among state’s top 13 largest ever as it consumes 239,000 acres
Environment|News

Video captures moment California home explodes in wildfire

Photojournalists captured the moment a house exploded in California's Park wildfire. 

Video captures moment California home explodes in wildfire
Environment|News

Hurricane season has been on pause. Here’s when that could change

Hurricane season has been on pause. Here’s when that could change

Hurricane season has been on pause. Here’s when that could change
Asia|Environment|News

Typhoon Gaemi weakens to a tropical storm as it moves inland carrying rain toward central China

What was Typhoon Gaemi has weakened to a severe tropical storm and is moving inland toward central China on after making landfall Thursday night on the east coast

Typhoon Gaemi weakens to a tropical storm as it moves inland carrying rain toward central China
Asia|Environment

Philippines plans to siphon off oil cargo from sunken tanker to avert 'environmental catastrophe'

The Philippine coast guard says there has been no indication that a big cargo of industrial fuel oil stored in a tanker that sank in stormy weather in Manila Bay has started to leak out

Philippines plans to siphon off oil cargo from sunken tanker to avert 'environmental catastrophe'
Asia|Environment|News

Typhoon Gaemi lashes China after pounding Taiwan, Philippines

Typhoon Gaemi pummelled towns on China's coastal Fujian province on Friday with heavy rains and strong winds as the most powerful storm to hit the country this year began its widely

Typhoon Gaemi lashes China after pounding Taiwan, Philippines

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