US cuts water supply for some states, Mexico as drought bites
by Huw Griffith Water supplies to some US states and Mexico will be cut to avoid "catastrophic collapse" of the ...
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US Senate adopts Biden’s sweeping climate, health plans
Washington—After 18 months of arduous negotiations and a marathon night of debate, the US Senate on Sunday passed Joe Biden’s ...
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US Senate adopts sweeping climate and health plan, in major victory for Biden
After 18 months of arduous negotiations and a marathon night of debate, the US Senate on Sunday passed Joe Biden's ...
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Mountain melt shutters classic Alpine routes
By Nina Larson with Alice Ritchie in Rome Little snow cover and glaciers melting at an alarming rate amid Europe's ...
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Europe burns as heatwave breaks temperature records
By Phil Hazlewood with AFP Europe bureaus A fierce heatwave in western Europe has left much of the continent wilting ...
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Vulnerable Pacific islands push for ‘immediate’ action on climate
Vulnerable Pacific islands demanded “urgent, immediate” global action on climate change Thursday, while stressing a commitment to democracy and the ...
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Brazil sets new six-month Amazon deforestation record
Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon reached a record level during the first half of 2022, the INPE national space agency ...
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US drought exposes murky mob past of Las Vegas
By Huw Griffith Mobsters who end up sleeping with the fishes are usually never seen again. Firearms are displayed for ...
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Egypt calls for ‘reality check’ in UN climate talks
By Kelly Macnamara Egypt hopes to jump-start the action needed to face a warming world when it takes the presidency ...
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Europe swelters in record-breaking June heatwave
By Stuart Williams with Mathieu Gorse in Madrid Spain, France and other western European nations sweltered over the weekend under ...
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