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BRUSSELS: Poland has filed legal challenges attempting to annul three of the European Union’s main climate change policies, which the Polish government argues would worsen social inequality, document published on Monday showed. The legal actions, brought by Warsaw to the EU Court of Justice in July, target policies including a law agreed this year which
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GENEVA: A scientific study published Monday projects that over half of Europe’s ski resorts will face a severe lack of snow if temperatures rise 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, while nearly all would be affected by an increase of 4 degrees – presenting challenges for the industry and policymakers, and threatening a harsher reality
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NEW DELHI: Will the year 2023 breach the 1.5 degrees celsius temperature threshold in sync with the World Meteorological Organisation’s prediction in May that the annual average global temperature between 2023 and 2027 will be more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels for at least one year?The answer to this may lie in the data, released
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BARCELONA: Climate activists have spraypainted a superyacht, blocked private jets from taking off and plugged holes in golf courses this summer as part of an intensifying campaign against the emissions-spewing lifestyles of the ultrawealthy. Climate activism has intensified in the past few years as the planet warms to dangerous levels, igniting more extreme heat, floods,
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BERLIN: German goals to cut greenhouse emissions by 65% by 2030 are likely to be missed, meaning a longer-term net zero by 2045 target is also in doubt, reports by government climate advisers and the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) show. The European Union has sought to be a climate leader and Germany has set itself
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OTTAWA: Climate change more than doubled the chances of the hot, dry weather that helped fuel the unprecedented wildfire season in eastern Canada that’s driven thousands from their homes and blanketed parts of the US with choking smoke, according to an analysis released Tuesday.What’s more, human-caused climate change made the fire season in Quebec —
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OMAHA: Scorching heat affecting nearly 100 million people across a huge swath of the US sent schools, outdoor workers and organizers of open-air events scrambling to adjust Tuesday – and claimed the life of a 1-year-old girl left in a Nebraska day care center’s van on one of the hottest days of the year. Officers
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ALEXANDROUPOLIS: Firefighters on Tuesday found the burnt bodies of 18 people believed to have been migrants who had crossed the Turkish border into an area of northeastern Greece where wildfires have raged for days. The discovery near the city of Alexandroupolis came as hundreds of firefighters battled dozens of wildfires across the country amid gale-force
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WASHINGTON: Human-caused climate change made 2023’s severe, months-long “fire weather” conditions that powered Canada‘s record-breaking blazes at least seven times more likely to happen, according to a new scientific analysis published Tuesday. The study by the World Weather Attribution group also found that over the year, fire-prone conditions were 50 percent more intense as a
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SANTIAGO: Two people are dead from flooding in the central-southern region of Chile on Monday, while thousands others have been evacuated or left homeless from dangerous rains pounding isolated communities. President Gabriel Boric declared a state of catastrophe on Monday while visiting one of the worst affected areas, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) south of
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