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Fires break out as southern Europe heatwave intensifiesNews

Fires break out as southern Europe heatwave intensifies

Rome, Italy | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Firefighters mobilised in several countries to tackle blazes as southern Europeans sought shelter from punishing temperatures of a heatwave…
SourceSourceJune 30, 2025 Full article
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Cold baths, climate shelters as Southern Europe heatwave intensifiesClimate

Cold baths, climate shelters as Southern Europe heatwave intensifies

Rome, Italy | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Authorities across Southern Europe urged people to seek shelter Sunday and protect the most vulnerable as punishing temperatures from…
SourceSourceJune 29, 2025 Full article
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Urban trees continue cooling cities even during extreme heatwavesScience

Urban trees continue cooling cities even during extreme heatwaves

Plane trees in cities have an important cooling effect even in extreme heat, according to a new study conducted by the Swiss Federal Institute for…
SourceSourceJune 29, 2025 Full article
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New Danish project to predict ice-free Arctic summersNews

New Danish project to predict ice-free Arctic summers

A new climate forecasting project aims to provide early warnings of ice-free Arctic summers, a phenomenon that could emerge as soon as the 2030s and…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJune 27, 2025 Full article
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Heatwave across the Med sparks health and fire warningsNews

Heatwave across the Med sparks health and fire warnings

Paris, France | AFP | Muser NewsDesk (UPDATED) Southern European countries braced Friday for a punishing weekend heatwave, with temperatures predicted to hit up to 40…
SourceSourceJune 27, 2025 Full article
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Climate Science Digest: June 26, 2025Science

Climate Science Digest: June 26, 2025

Explore the latest insights from top science journals in the Muser Press daily roundup (June 26, 2025), featuring impactful research on climate change challenges. In…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJune 26, 2025 Full article
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Tech giants’ net zero goals verging on fantasy: researchersNews

Tech giants’ net zero goals verging on fantasy: researchers

Paris, France | AFP | Muser NewsDeskThe credibility of climate pledges by the world's tech giants to rapidly become carbon neutral is fading fast as they…
SourceSourceJune 26, 2025 Full article
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Warming climate may accelerate weather instabilityClimate

Warming climate may accelerate weather instability

A recent study by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) reveals a looming climate crisis: the world could face heightened risks of…
SourceSourceJune 25, 2025 Full article
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Over 80,000 people flee severe flooding in southwest ChinaNews

Over 80,000 people flee severe flooding in southwest China

Shanghai, China | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Flooding in China's southwest has driven more than 80,000 people from their homes, state media said on Wednesday, as…
SourceSourceJune 25, 2025 Full article
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Deadly dengue fever impacts climate-hit Bangladesh coastNews

Deadly dengue fever impacts climate-hit Bangladesh coast

Dhaka, Bangladesh | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Mosquito-borne dengue fever was rarely a major problem in Bangladesh's coastal districts, but some hospitals are so full of…
SourceSourceJune 24, 2025 Full article
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Millions in US sweat out first extreme heatwave of yearNews

Millions in US sweat out first extreme heatwave of year

New York, United States | AFP | Muser NewsDesk A potentially life-threatening heatwave enveloped the eastern third of the United States on Monday impacting nearly 160…
SourceSourceJune 24, 2025 Full article
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New study questions ancient drying of northern AfricaClimate

New study questions ancient drying of northern Africa

New research casts doubt on ancient drying of northern Africa’s climate Summary: New evidence from leaf wax hydrogen isotopes suggests that northern Africa’s summer rainfall…
SourceSourceJune 23, 2025 Full article
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Ancient aquifers hint at future water shortages in SouthwestScience

Ancient aquifers hint at future water shortages in Southwest

New study led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution builds on earlier work and shows the Southwest may be more sensitive to drying than the Pacific…
SourceSourceJune 20, 2025 Full article
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How did life survive ‘Snowball Earth’? In ponds, study suggestsScience

How did life survive ‘Snowball Earth’? In ponds, study suggests

Paris, France | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Earth has not always been so hospitable to live. During several ice ages, the planet's surface was almost completely…
SourceSourceJune 19, 2025 Full article
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Arctic peatlands spreading northward as temperatures riseClimate

Arctic peatlands spreading northward as temperatures rise

Warming temperatures and longer growing seasons are driving the outward spread of Arctic peatlands, raising hopes for increased carbon storage, but also concerns about long-term…
SourceSourceJune 19, 2025 Full article
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Making crops heat-resilient is possible, but costly and time-consumingScience

Making crops heat-resilient is possible, but costly and time-consuming

New review in Science outlines proven strategies to protect crop productivity from rising temperatures, but warns that scaling them up will take decades and major…
SourceSourceJune 19, 2025 Full article
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Longer exposure, more pollen: climate change worsens allergiesNews

Longer exposure, more pollen: climate change worsens allergies

Paris, France | AFP Runny nose, itching eyes, worsening asthma symptoms -- the effects of hay fever are nothing to sneeze at, experts say, warning of…
SourceSourceJune 18, 2025 Full article
Image: this data visualisation, produced using C3S data, illustrates the surface air temperature anomalies for May 2025 across part of the Northern Hemisphere
Image of the day: Global temperature hovers near 1.5°C in May 2025Facts

Image of the day: Global temperature hovers near 1.5°C in May 2025

May 2025 was the second warmest May ever recorded globally, with an average surface air temperature of 15.79°C – 0.53°C above the 1991–2020 average –…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJune 17, 2025 Full article
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Global oil demand to dip in 2030, first drop since Covid: IEANews

Global oil demand to dip in 2030, first drop since Covid: IEA

Paris, France | AFP Global oil demand will fall slightly in 2030, its first drop since the 2020 Covid pandemic, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday.…
SourceSourceJune 17, 2025 Full article
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Greenwashing rife in EU aviation: consumer groupsNews

Greenwashing rife in EU aviation: consumer groups

Brussels, Belgium | AFP | Muser NewsDesk The European aviation industry is awash with misleading climate-related claims, consumer groups said Tuesday, over a year after the…
SourceSourceJune 17, 2025 Full article
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UK commits £8 bn to flood defencesNews

UK commits £8 bn to flood defences

London, United Kingdom | AFP Britain's Labour government on Monday announced plans to invest almost £8 billion ($11 billion) on flood defences over the next 10…
SourceSourceJune 16, 2025 Full article
Image: Tundra plants can eek out an existence in the very short summers of the Canadian High Arctic such as here on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
Arctic plant life shifts in complex patterns as climate warmsClimate

Arctic plant life shifts in complex patterns as climate warms

Researchers tracked more than 2,000 plant communities over four decades, and found that some species thrived while others declined Summary: In a massive, four-decade study…
SourceSourceJune 14, 2025 Full article
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Summer solstice may guide plant growth, but climate change throws off the signalScience

Summer solstice may guide plant growth, but climate change throws off the signal

UBC researchers find the summer solstice may guide plant growth and reproduction, but climate change could make this once-reliable signal less effective Summary: The summer…
SourceSourceJune 12, 2025 Full article
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Value oceans, don’t plunder them, French Polynesia leader tells AFPNews

Value oceans, don’t plunder them, French Polynesia leader tells AFP

Nice, France | AFP French Polynesia pledged this week to create the world's largest marine protected area to safeguard its seas -- and it hopes to…
SourceSourceJune 12, 2025 Full article