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July 28, 2025 4:58 PM

UN tells Australia, Turkey to end COP31 hosting standoff

The United Nations climate chief on Monday urged Australia and Turkey to resolve their long-running tussle over who will host next year's COP31 summit, calling the delay unhelpful and unnecessary. Australia and Turkey submitted bids to host the high...

July 23, 2025 1:49 PM

Record heat in China strains power grid, stirs health fears

China warned on Wednesday against the risk of power supply disruptions as people struggled to keep cool in record heat baking large swathes of the country, which also spurred warnings to the elderly to guard against heat stroke. Power supply suffers...

July 11, 2025 11:28 AM

New Zealand braces for severe weather as storm threatens flooding

Heavy rain and strong winds lashed parts of New Zealand on Friday as a cold front moved east across the country, and authorities warned conditions could worsen over the next 24 hours, triggering floods and landslides. The northern regions of both...

July 9, 2025 4:36 PM

Are flash floods directly linked to climate change?

The catastrophic flash floods in Texas a couple of days earlier, triggered by extremely heavy rainfall, which caused over 100 deaths and widespread destruction, have once again raised a pressing question- are flash floods directly linked to climate c...

July 9, 2025 12:46 PM

European heatwave caused 2,300 deaths, scientists estimate

Around 2,300 people died of heat-related causes across 12 European cities during the severe heatwave that ended last week, according to a rapid scientific analysis published on Wednesday. The study targeted the 10 days, ending July 2, during which l...

July 8, 2025 10:00 AM

Hopes fade for Texas flood victims as death toll tops 95

Search teams plodded through muddy riverbanks and flew aircraft over a flood-ravaged central Texas landscape on Monday as hopes dimmed for finding more survivors among dozens still missing from a disaster that has claimed at least 96 lives, many...

 

Last updated on: 29th Jul 2025