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A wildfire on the island of Evia in southern Greece rages on, with nearby communtiies evacuated and more than 200 firefighters on-site. A fire official has called it one of the most dangerous fires of the season so far. Greece's wildfire season is getting longer with each year, in part due to extreme heat caused by human-caused climate change. Evia was struck by massive wildfires in 2021 and also suffered extensive damage last summer. Greece has already tackled hundreds of fires this summer, with the government saying they were bracing for a particularly difficult fire season. Evia wildfire: W...
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Holiday goers who planned a beach holiday for their summer getaway may have been surprised when they saw long and dense streaks of seaweed floating on the surface of the sea. The algae has plagued the Adriatic Sea for weeks in Ancona in Italy. The slimy substance disappeared for a few days but has unfortunately returned, as it is believed to thrive in hot temperatures. Impact on tourismWhile the seaweed is not considered harmful for swimmers, some bathers express their discontent with the slime. "You have to take a shower; you feel sticky right away" one bather explains. Others seem less oppos...
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It lasts only a few minutes, but the weather report brings its own kind of atmosphere to France. Every evening at 8pm, a familiar anchor from state broadcaster France Télévisions steps into people’s homes with “a warm hello” and tells them about tomorrow. Televised forecasts have been a staple of daily life since the 1940s; changing such a trusted format is no small matter. But the way the climate crisis is disrupting our weather demands innovation, so last year the broadcaster turned its traditional report into a climate change-informed weather report, Journal Météo-Climat. “We see it as the ...
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The United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres issued an urgent call to action after the world experienced its hottest day on record on Monday. He said "This past Sunday, Monday and Tuesday were the three hottest days on record. But let’s face facts: extreme temperatures are no longer a one-day, one-week or one-month phenomenon. If there is one thing that unites our divided world, it’s that we’re all increasingly feeling the heat. Earth is becoming hotter and more dangerous for everyone, everywhere". The World Meteorological Organization, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, ...
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When Elias Tziritis visits pockets of Greece scorched and scarred by wildfires, he worries about the future. “You start thinking about your children or grandchildren,” the environmentalist says. “But as a scientist, you cannot speak in human timelines. You must think in nature's timeline.” Kalavrita-born Tziritis is Greece’s World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) coordinator of actions for forest fires. It is his job to help monitor and advocate for the Mediterranean landscape. He started working with the Swedish not-for-profit in 1995 as a volunteer before becoming staff in 2004. But his obsession ...
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Flights at Germany's busiest airport Frankfurt were temporarily suspended on Thursday when climate activists glued themselves to the tarmac Over 100 flights were cancelled. Federal police reported that several demonstrators entered the airport early in the morning. Climate activist group Last Generation say that six protesters cut through the perimeter fence and approached the runways by foot, bicycles, and skateboards. Flight operations began "gradually resuming" shortly before 8am, and the airport announced on X that all runways were back in operation shortly after. Around 140 flights, appro...
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Climate activists have glued themselves to the runway at Cologne-Bonn Airport, one of Germany's biggest airports. At least four inbound flights have been redirected to the nearby airports of Dusseldorf and Hannover, while numerous outbound flights faced significant delays and cancellations, leaving many passengers stranded. Police said five people glued themselves to a taxiway at the airport early in the morning and officers were trying to dislodge them, German news agency dpa reported. By 8.30 am, two of them had been removed. The Last Generation activist group said in a statement that suppor...
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“Kamala Harris will be the next President of the United States,” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) posted on X last night, pledging full support for her fellow Democrat. US citizens will decide in November whether that is true or not, but Harris’s chance of becoming the 47th - and first female - president of the US just shot up, after Joe Biden dropped out of the race with Republican Donald Trump yesterday. As the world’s largest historical contributor to climate change - still the second largest today after China \- America’s political direction has huge ramifications for the rest of the planet....
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Although she used the word ‘environment’ only once in her 30-page manifesto, Ursula von der Leyen’s re-election as European Commission president means the EU executive is now committed to a climate target that translates into a sevenfold reduction in greenhouse gas output. At the centre of Von der Leyen’s ‘political guidelines’ for the next Commission is a Clean Industrial Deal, to be presented within 100 days of taking office in the autumn, that promises to be as much a flagship policy of her second mandate as the European Green Deal has been of her first. Faustine Bas-Defossez, a director at...
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After several days of ‘hellishly hot’ temperatures across southern Europe, people are looking for some respite from July’s heatwaves. There’s little relief to be had in the very short term, with peaks of up to 43 degrees Celsius forecasted for parts of Italy and Greece today (18 July). The extreme heat that has afflicted many southern and eastern countries this month is partly driven by a wave of hot air from north Africa. Multiple people are reported to have died in Italy, and extreme heat-death warnings continue to be issued for countries from Portugal to Romania and Cyprus. But the lethal h...
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