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“I wanted to choke some people,” Cameron Hamilton said in a podcast interview last week.

Spending on gasoline will average less than 2 percent of drivers’ disposable income this year, the Energy Information Administration predicted in a bit of welcome economic news for President Donald … Read More

France’s largest wildfire in decades has severely damaged vineyards in part of the Aude area of Languedoc on the eve of harvest, as attention turns to recovery and emergency aid. … Read More

Historic wildfires that have raged across Spain and killed four people are beginning to relent, the head of the country’s civil protection and emergencies service Virginia Barcones said Saturday. Weeks … Read More

The United Nations on Friday urged governments and employers to act swiftly to safeguard workers whose health is at growing risk from extreme heat. With climate change driving more frequent … Read More

Europe has registered a record number of outbreaks of mosquito-borne illnesses such as chikungunya and West Nile virus this year, the EU health agency said Wednesday, saying climate change was … Read More

A new study published in Nature reveals ‘evidence for rapid, interacting and sometimes self-perpetuating changes in the Antarctic’. Speaking on FRANCE 24, glaciologist and ice-sheet modeller Frank Pattyn, Chair of … Read More

Spain was still battling several wildfires on Tuesday that have ravaged a record area of land, said to be more than twice the size of metropolitan London. The country has … Read More

Researchers in Hong Kong are installing artificial nest boxes to help yellow-crested cockatoos breed after most natural cavities were lost to typhoons and tree cutting. The species is endangered, with … Read More

Hong Kong-based researcher Astrid Andersson is planning to set up around 50 nest boxes around the city in an effort to help boost the population of the endangered yellow-crested cockatoo. The … Read More