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In Cameroon, sustainable cocoa farming helps protect wildlife

Through the Congo Basin Landscapes Initiative, local Indigenous farmers in Cameroon receive training and equipment to improve yields while protecting the rainforest.

Africanews

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N.L. wildfire puts another community on evacuation alert

Changing winds have made Freshwater, N.L., the latest community under an evacuation alert because of the approaching Kingston wildfire that has already burned about 95 square kilometres.

CBC News

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Iraq’s water buffalo herds dwindle

The ancient Mesopotamian marshlands of southern Iraq are facing an existential crisis as prolonged drought and reduced water flows devastate the region's iconic water buffalo herds.

Al Jazeera

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A desk with the greatest view

In the late 1970s, a group of university students in West Texas, wanting a place to study with a view, hauled a desk to the top of Hancock Hill (elevation: 4,900 feet), in the town of Alpine. Today, the desk is a pilgrimage for hikers se...

CBS News

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Thousands of emergency personnel battle wildfires in Spain, Portugal

A heatwave is continuing to affect the Iberian Peninsula. Thousands of firefighters have been deployed to battle ongoing blazes and towns have been evacuated. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez visited affected regions to meet with the...

Euronews

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Transforming shipping containers into livable shelters

Meet Brian Stark, the architect behind Arizona's eco-friendly affordable housing solution, where he turns old shipping containers into shelters for unhoused people.

CBS America

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Screwworm outbreak raises Texas concerns

An outbreak of flesh-eating parasites in central and northern America has begun spreading through livestock. The new world screwworm is a parasitic fly that lays its larvae in open wounds of warm-blooded animal — including humans.

DW News

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Urban development threatens Aztec canal network

They're known as Mexico City's gardens - an ancient network of canals and floating islands designed by the Aztecs for food production. But efforts to develop the area, including for tourism, have put its ancestral use at risk.

Al Jazeera

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South Africa water crisis: 3 million lack access to piped water

It's the final day of a major African Union water summit, as leaders race to tackle one of the continent’s most pressing crisis - water.

Al Jazeera

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Global plastic talks collapse as countries remain deeply divided

Global talks to develop a landmark treaty to end plastic pollution have once again failed. The UN negotiations, the sixth round of talks in just under three years, were due to end on Thursday but countries continued to negotiate into the...

France 24

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Olive growing brothers lose 150-year-old grove to wildfire

In the scorched remains of his family’s Greek olive grove, 64-year-old Panagiotis Kazouras walks through blackened soil and charred branches as he mourns the trees passed down to him through generations.

Reuters

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UN plastic treaty talks extended as no agreement reached

UN delegates have extended talks on a global plastic treaty due to lack of agreement. Widely rejected draft text does not limit plastic production or address chemicals used in plastic products.

France 24

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Greece wildfires burn through 10,000 hectares in two days

After two days of wildfires, Patra in western Greece is in shock — roads closed, smoke rising, and the air thick with the smell of burning.

Al Jazeera

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Wildfires kill three, displace thousands across southern Europe

Wildfires intensified across southern Europe on Wednesday with a round-the-clock battle to protect the perimeter of Greece’s third-largest city and at least three deaths reported in Spain, Turkey and Albania.

France 24

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Experts grapple with scale of plastic pollution in oceans

As 185 nations engage in talks on reaching a global treaty to curb plastic pollution, the increasingly unmanageable scale of plastic waste littering oceans and threatening the wildlife within them leaves experts concerned about the feasi...

France 24

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Ocean heat and global sea level hit new records, report finds

A State of the Climate report from the American Meteorological Society shares concerning updates about the planet. It shows that the annual global temperature, greenhouse gas concentrations and ocean heat all hit record highs last year.

CBS America

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Arizona’s booming tech hub strains water supplies in Silicon Desert

Arizona's booming tech industry is putting unprecedented strain on the state's water resources. Data centers and chip manufacturing plants are drawing an ever-increasing share of energy from the power grid and consuming vast amounts of w...

Al Jazeera

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Last chance saloon for global plastic pollution treaty

Negotiators trying to secure a global agreement on tackling the scourge of plastic pollution have less than 24 hours to salvage a deal on August 14 after the talks plunged into total disarray.

France 24

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Heatwave-fueled wildfires hit Southern Albania

As wildfires fanned by an extreme heatwave and strong winds sweep through Southern Albania, 61-year-old farmer Clirim Conku recounts his ordeal battling the blaze and saving his house, while losing all his livestock.

Reuters

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Global plastics treaty talks in Geneva stall as deadline looms

With just hours left to reach a deal on plastics, negotiators in Geneva were scrambling to resolve a deadlock caused by “red lines” of member countries. Nations are crafting the first global, legally binding treaty on plastics pollution ...

Africanews

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Lagos battles plastic waste as ban faces weak enforcement

As efforts to create a global treaty to end plastic pollution continue in Geneva, residents of Nigeria's largest city are showing bans on single use plastics are easier to introduce than enforce

Africanews

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Chile battles textile waste with new producer recycling law

Thousands of tonnes of discarded clothing are polluting Atacama Desert, but a recycling project aims to turn waste into mattress materials.

Al Jazeera

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Wildfires in Greece force mass evacuations

About a hundred wildfires are burning across Greece. Residents in the city of Patra were forced to flee, as the flames moved quickly from house to house. Nearly 5,000 firefighters assisted by 33 aircraft deployed in Greece as flames stok...

Al Jazeera

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European wildfires cause massive damage and evacuation of thousands

Wildfires in Greece, Albania, Spain, Portugal and Italy have caused widespread damage. At least two people have been killed and thousands face evacuation.

Euronews

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These summer pests have a taste for pinot

Virginia’s wine industry is facing an uninvited guest this late summer and fall: the colorful but destructive spotted lanternfly, draining nutrients from grapevines, stunting their growth and leaving winemakers worried and wine lovers gr...

The Weather Channel

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Juneau faces potentially catastrophic flooding due to glacier melting

Juneau, Alaska, braces for potentially record-breaking flooding as the Mendenhall River is expected to exceed 16 feet, threatening 1,000 homes. Residents are urged to evacuate.

Scripps News

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Wildfires fanned by heatwave rage across Europe, forcing evacuations

Raging wildfires fanned by a heatwave and strong winds continued across southern Europe on Wednesday (August 13). Thousands have been evacuated as continuing high temperatures make the situation difficult for authorities to get under con...

Reuters

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French nuclear plant to restart after jellyfish 'invasion'

Four reactors at France's Gravelines nuclear plant will return to operation throughout the week, slightly later than initially planned, EDF data showed on Tuesday (August 12) after they were forced offline by a swarm of jellyfish in the ...

Reuters

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Historic heat fuels fires across Europe

Record-high temperatures across Europe are fanning wildfires across the continent. Experts say a warming climate and an increase in flammable vegetation from rural depopulation are major factors.

CBC News

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Man survives flesh-eating bacteria off Florida coast

Lifelong boat captain George Billiris says he's lucky to be alive after Vibrio vulnificus, the so-called "flesh-eating" bacteria that lurks in warm coastal waters like those along Florida's Gulf Coast, nearly killed him.

CBS America