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German climate activist Anja Windl has been freed in Austria after serving a 42-day custodial sentence in lieu of a fine. The protest group Last Generation Alliance said the 27-year-old had left the police detention centre in Vienna on Tuesday with a fellow activist. The young women had taken part in sit-in blockades and other climate protests and had not complied with police requests to leave the gatherings. The activists were given prison sentences at the beginning of June because they were unable to pay the high fines that had been imposed by the court. The two women complained of poor cond...
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In a joint appeal, 31 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have strongly criticized the German government's planned cuts in development policy and urged the Cabinet not to support the plans. "The German government's budget planning is short-sighted and undermines Germany's own goal of working towards a fairer, more prosperous, more peaceful and more secure world," the statement said. The organizations said that the government is prioritizing short-term savings over long-term damage, neglecting those in need and potentially compromising action on climate change, education and global health. "I...
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An average of almost 1,500 people per year were treated in Germany's hospitals due to heat and intense sun exposure between 2002 and 2022. "Extreme heat is now a problem for the health of the population here in Germany," the Federal Statistical Office in Wiesbaden announced on Monday. The number of deaths directly caused by heat averaged 20 cases per year in the study period. However, very high temperatures also lead to an overall increase in mortality, as they have an indirect effect in many cases. The combination of extreme summer temperatures and pre-existing illnesses significantly increas...
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At least seven people have died in Texas as Hurricane Beryl continues to move through the US state, according to media reports, while millions remain without power. It will likely take several days to restore the power supply, according to the operator. Some 2 million to 3 million households are affected, the chairman of the company said. Among the dead was a police officer in his car on his way to work in Houston, Mayor John Whitmire told a press conference on Monday. In the neighbouring state of Louisiana, one person also died as a result of the storm, the local sheriff's office reported. US...
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Four people have died in Texas as tropical storm Beryl continues to move through the state, the mayor of Houston said on Monday, while millions remain without power. It will likely take several days to restore the power supply, according to the operator. Some 2 to 3 million households are affected, the chairman of the company said. Meanwhile, a tornado in Jasper County, on the border with the state of Louisiana, destroyed about thirty houses. Beryl made landfall as a hurricane near the Texan town of Matagorda some 130 kilometres south-west of Houston early on Monday morning, but has since lost...
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An alliance of climate and road safety organizations has called on the German government to introduce a speed limit on the country's road network ahead of a parliamentary debate. A succession of governments have refused to implement the policy, "even though the 2030 climate targets are likely to be missed and the high number of road deaths in Germany has again increased," the group said on Friday. The alliance, which includes a number of prominent climate organizations as well as the North Rhine Westphalia (NRW) police union, first called for the introduction of a general speed limit on motorw...
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An alliance of climate and road safety organizations has called on the German government to introduce a speed limit on the country's road network ahead of a parliamentary debate. A succession of governments have refused to implement the policy, "even though the 2030 climate targets are likely to be missed and the high number of road deaths in Germany has again increased," the group said on Friday. The alliance, which includes a number of prominent climate organizations as well as the North Rhine Westphalia (NRW) police union, first called for the introduction of a general speed limit on motorw...
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Hurricane Beryl has claimed at least one life in Jamaica after wreaking havoc across the Caribbean, a spokeswoman for the country's disaster management agency told the US broadcaster CNN late on Wednesday. A woman died in the north-west of the Caribbean island after a tree fell on her house, the spokeswoman said. Rescue teams in the capital, Kingston, were also searching for a 20-year-old who had fallen into a gully and been swept away by the floodwaters, The Gleaner newspaper reported on Wednesday. The latest casualties come in addition to the eight lives claimed thus far by the hurricane in ...
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Hurricane Beryl has brushed Jamaica after it has already killed several people and razed entire islands to the ground in its destructive path through the Caribbean. The centre of the Category 4 storm was moving near Jamaica's southern coast on Wednesday with maximum sustained winds of 215 kilometres per hour, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. Beryl was temporarily upgraded to a "potentially catastrophic" Category 5 - the highest level - late on Monday, but has since lost some of its intensity. According to the island's meteorological service, Beryl was "about to begin moving away fr...
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Jamaica is bracing for the arrival of Hurricane Beryl, which has already killed several people and razed entire islands to the ground in its destructive path through the Caribbean. According to the US National Hurricane Center (NHC), the eye of the storm will likely pass over Jamaica on Wednesday, bringing life-threatening winds and storm surges. The outer winds of the hurricane were already causing heavy rain on the Caribbean island early on Wednesday. "I am now declaring the whole of Jamaica to be a disaster area ... for the next seven days," Prime Minister Andrew Holness said in a national ...
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