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France’s largest wildfire in decades, which erupted on Tuesday in the southern Aude department, has been “brought under control”, local authorities said late Thursday. The blaze, which officials linked to climate change and … Read More

France’s Constitutional Council on Thursday rejected a controversial pesticide bill that would have allowed the reintroduction of acetamiprid, a chemical banned since 2018 due to its harmful effects on pollinators … Read More

The fire currently raging in France’s southern Aude region has already swept through an area larger than Paris. As large-scale wildfires become a bigger threat due to climate change, researchers in … Read More

As wildfires rip through southern France’s Aude region, winemakers and farmers are blaming their rapid spread on the loss of moisture-rich vineyards that once acted as natural firebreaks, sparking fresh … Read More

France’s largest wildfire in decades continued to burn and spread Thursday, though at a slower pace, after having already ravaged more than 160 square kilometers (62 square miles) in the … Read More

The 184 countries gathering to forge a landmark treaty on combating plastic pollution are seeking a way forward to tackle a global crisis wrecking ecosystems and trashing the oceans. For … Read More

France’s biggest wildfire in years was spreading quickly Wednesday in a Mediterranean region near Spain after leaving one person dead and several injured, authorities said. The fire burned an area … Read More

France is grappling with its largest wildfire in nearly 80 years, with the three-day blaze still raging near the border with Spain. As of Thursday, at least one person has … Read More

The world experienced its third-hottest July on record last month, the European climate monitoring service said Thursday, with parts of Asia and Scandinavia suffering record-high temperatures even as the global … Read More

France 24 journalist Carys Garland reports from southern France, where a deadly wildfire expanded to cover an area larger than Paris, with firefighters struggling to keep the blaze from spreading. … Read More