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France Heatwave Shock: What’s really driving the €15 billion economic toll?France faces enormous economic costs from ongoing summer heatwaves and drought. These combined direct and indirect losses are estimated bet...- Austria hits record temperature, Hungary curbs power use as Europe feels the heatAustria recorded its highest temperature ever as a severe heatwave grips Europe. Hungarians reduced power use to ease grid pressure amid a ...
- Hungary PM Magyar flags 'critical' days ahead with looming nuclear shutdownHungary faces a critical five days as the Danube's low levels force its nuclear plant shutdown. The Paks power plant will cease generation ...
- Where are the wildfires in Spain and France? Areas affected, evacuation updates and latest situationWildfires in France and Spain have forced over 300,000 people to evacuate their homes. These fires have scorched vast areas, exceeding prev...
- In the 1930s, the Dust Bowl devastated America but Franklin D. Roosevelt's massive tree-planting project is still protecting US farmland nearly 90 years laterThe Dust Bowl is one of the worst environmental disasters in American history, but it also sparked one of the country's largest conservatio...
- Why Europe's wildfires have spiralled into a historic disasterRecord heat and prolonged drought have triggered some of Europe's worst wildfires in decades, forcing over 300,000 evacuations across Franc...
- Europe heatwave: The thermometer is flashing red for the continent's economyEurope's heatwave is becoming a growing economic threat as extreme temperatures disrupt transport, reduce labour productivity, damage agric...
- Think it's hot now? World headed for repeated heat record shocks, warns UNNew United Nations climate projections reveal Earth will likely surpass the safe climate threshold repeatedly in the next five years. The h...
- Wheat rallies on weather woes and Iran-linked fertilizer crunchWheat prices are climbing significantly this week. Fertilizer shortages, exacerbated by the Iran war, are also a major concern. These facto...
- Germany sees 'worrying' record dry spell in early 2025Germany's environment minister has issued a warning about the heightened risk of forest fires and potential harvest failures due to a signi...
- Water crises threaten the world's ability to eat, studies showWater stress affects 30% of the population every year in the 27 countries of the European Union, and that is expected to worsen as the worl...
- Take maritime shipping off the inflation warning listThese latest disruptions are forcing ships to take alternative, longer routes. But once the ships arrive at their destinations, they are be...
- EU countries to demand bloc does more to help farmers, draft statement saysDraft conclusions for an EU summit on 21-22 March, seen by Reuters, showed EU country leaders plan to ask the European Commission to work w...
- How climate change threatens global agricultureAgriculture represents nearly a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions -- largely from livestock and fertilisers.
- Heat projected to kill nearly five times more people by 2050An international team of experts has warned that the number of deaths caused by extreme heat will increase nearly fivefold in the coming de...
- Renewables to dominate growth of global electricity supply: IEA reportMore than 70 per cent of the increase in global electricity demand is expected to come from China, India and Southeast Asia, it said, with ...
- European drought dries up rivers, kills fish, shrivels cropsThere has been no significant rainfall for almost two months in Western, Central and Southern Europe. And the dry period is expected to con...
- Natural disaster losses hit $72 bn in first half 2022: Swiss ReThough the figure is lower than the $91 billion estimate for the first six months of 2021, it is close to the 10-year average of $74 billio...
- All is not well on the global food frontReports of a possible global food crisis could not have come at a worse time for India.
- Scientists warn of looming water supply crisisClimate change has already dramatically altered the water cycle and these changes signal a looming water supply crisis, according to a prom...
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