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A long spell of extreme hot and dry weather is affecting energy, water supplies and food production across China Low rainfall and record-breaking heat across much of China are having widespread impacts on people, industry and farming. River and re..
Eight weeks of torrential rain during a severe monsoon season have left a third of Pakistan underwater, in the worst flooding since 2010 Devastating floods that have killed more than 1000 people in Pakistan are a “climate catastrophe” ..
The majority of days every year could become dangerously hot in many parts of the world if warming reaches 3°C by 2100 With 3°C of global warming by the end of the century, more than 5 billion people could be exposed to dangerous heat and ..
The vision for Qatar's environment focuses on sustaining wildlife that is preserved and developed by a sensitive society in order to ensure a better future for the following generations. The State of Qatar has paid special attention to wildl..
Another rare Bengal tiger cub was born at Cuba's National Zoo in Havana, zookeepers said on Friday, just over a year after four of the striped and adorable baby beasts - amongst them a rare white tiger - graced the grounds. The birth of all th..
Another elephant has died at Zurich Zoo from the herpes virus, the park said on Saturday, the third to die there from the condition since the end of June. Ruwani, a five-year-old elephant cow, died on Saturday morning after succumbing to Elephant ..
An An, the world's oldest male giant panda under human care, was euthanised on Thursday at age 35, the equivalent of 105 years for humans, said the Hong Kong theme park where he lived. An An's health had showed steady signs of deterioratio..
Hungry polar bears are turning to garbage dumps to fill their stomachs as their icy habitat disappears. On Wednesday, a team of Canadian and U.S. scientists warned that trash poses an emerging threat to already-vulnerable polar bear populations as..
Heat-related deaths will triple over coming decades without government action on overheating in our homes, warn its advisors on climate change. The alert comes amid the first UK red extreme heat warning, with potentially life-threatening record hi..