Microplastics are plastic particles smaller than 5 millimeters that originate either from manufactured products or from the breakdown of larger plastic items. They can now be found everywhere, from oceans and rivers to soils ...
Environment
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Drinking this year's champagne might cause a heftier headache as France's record heat waves force some producers to increase alcohol levels, industry officials said Wednesday.
Environment
Sep 9, 2026
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Hurricane Lowell lashed Hawaii with damaging winds, heavy rainfall and powerful floods, knocking out power for 91% of a western island as it pushed farther into the Pacific on Tuesday.
Environment
Sep 9, 2026
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Southeast Asia has spent decades trying to tackle haze from forest fires. Yet every few years, the region finds itself breathing it again. The transboundary environmental problem has become a recurrent phenomenon in the region.
Earth Sciences
Sep 8, 2026
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Since the 1950s, the Tibetan Plateau has experienced pronounced warming and wetting. However, an overall shift toward wetter conditions does not necessarily mean that drought risk has diminished. On the contrary, against ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 8, 2026
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Every US$1 invested in tackling climate change and air pollution together can generate around US$15 in economic benefits, according to a report published today by the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Climate and ...
Environment
Sep 8, 2026
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Across southern Europe, increasingly extreme heat, wildfire and intense rainfall are forcing planners to consider how one event can alter the risk of the next. Portugal's exceptionally wet winter and another summer of wildfire ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 8, 2026
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Children across Europe have returned to school after a summer of extreme heat. As the climate warms, one question is becoming harder to ignore: How can students learn when classrooms become dangerously hot?
Environment
Sep 8, 2026
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The catastrophic flood along the Nepal–China border that killed more than 1,400 people and left nearly 6,000 people missing devastated communities and infrastructure and renewed questions about how Himalayan countries prepare ...
Environment
Sep 8, 2026
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The year is 2060. London shudders through months of Nordic winter freezes. Across northern Europe, oak and beech forests wither under severe frost and drought, while cereal yields collapse from temperatures plunging as low ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 8, 2026
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