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Food security fears mount as UK farmers battle droughtNews

Food security fears mount as UK farmers battle drought

Shimpling, United Kingdom | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Giant dust clouds rose from a green-red combine harvester as it crawled across a parched field, a sign…
SourceSourceAugust 7, 2026 Full article
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Climate change made Canadian wildfires twice as likely: studyNewsClimate

Climate change made Canadian wildfires twice as likely: study

Washington, United States | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Human-caused climate change made the extreme fire conditions behind this year's Canadian wildfires twice as likely to happen,…
SourceSourceAugust 6, 2026 Full article
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Low water on Germany’s Rhine river threatens new blow to economyNews

Low water on Germany’s Rhine river threatens new blow to economy

Frankfurt, Germany | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Dwindling water levels on some of Germany's major rivers worsened by heat and drought are raising fears that badly…
SourceSourceAugust 6, 2026 Full article
Satellite Image: A Copernicus Sentinel-2 image acquired on 2 August 2026 shows the extensive burn scar left by the wildfire near Psatha and Porto Germeno in western Attica, Greece
Greeks survey damage left by fires near AthensNews

Greeks survey damage left by fires near Athens

Athens, Greece | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Greek officials and residents of a region west of the capital Athens on Wednesday began to assess the damage…
SourceSourceAugust 5, 2026 Full article
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India monsoon floods, landslides kill more than 100 since July: officialsNews

India monsoon floods, landslides kill more than 100 since July: officials

New Delhi, India | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Floods and landslides triggered by monsoon rains have killed more than 100 people across India since July, official…
SourceSourceAugust 5, 2026 Full article
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OceanX expedition maps Roo Rise deep-sea ecosystemsNews

OceanX expedition maps Roo Rise deep-sea ecosystems

SINGAPORE | OceanX | Muser NewsDesk Expedition maps more than 12,800 square kilometers of seabed and documents deep-sea biodiversity across a little-studied high seas region…
SourceSourceAugust 4, 2026 Full article
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EU launches project for Southern Ocean observing systemNewsScience

EU launches project for Southern Ocean observing system

The EU is funding the SYNCHRONY project, involving 27 international partners, to carry out coordinated observations, to harmonise data, and to improve our understanding and…
SourceSourceAugust 3, 2026 Full article
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South Korea records its highest-ever temperature of 42.5 °CNews

South Korea records its highest-ever temperature of 42.5 °C

Seoul, South Korea | AFP | Muser NewsDesk South Korea registered on Sunday its highest temperature since records began more than a century ago, according to…
SourceSourceAugust 2, 2026 Full article
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Hungary to shut nuclear plant as heatwave hits central EuropeNews

Hungary to shut nuclear plant as heatwave hits central Europe

Budapest, Hungary | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Hungary's sole nuclear power plant will be shut down next week because of low water levels in the river…
SourceSourceAugust 1, 2026 Full article
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Forever chemicals and pesticides under Trump: what to knowNews

Forever chemicals and pesticides under Trump: what to know

Washington, United States | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Since returning to power, President Donald Trump's administration has approved five new pesticides considered by many to be…
SourceSourceJuly 31, 2026 Full article
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Strengthening El Niño ‘adding fuel to a planet already on fire’: UN chiefNews

Strengthening El Niño ‘adding fuel to a planet already on fire’: UN chief

United Nations, United States | AFP | Muser NewsDesk A strengthening El Niño that could shatter all-time records is "adding fuel to a planet already on…
SourceSourceJuly 31, 2026 Full article
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May, June heatwaves caused 2,877 extra deaths in England: govtNews

May, June heatwaves caused 2,877 extra deaths in England: govt

London, United Kingdom | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Record-breaking heatwaves in May and June led to an estimated 2,877 excess deaths in England, the UK Health…
SourceSourceJuly 30, 2026 Full article
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Climate concern rises across EuropeNews

Climate concern rises across Europe

A new book examines how environmental attitudes and behaviours have evolved across Europe over recent decades amid overlapping climate, health, economic, energy and political crises…
SourceSourceJuly 28, 2026 Full article
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Whales at risk, hungry pelicans: Marine heatwave hits CaliforniaNews

Whales at risk, hungry pelicans: Marine heatwave hits California

Long Beach, United States | AFP | Muser NewsDesk On a boat off the coast of California, Sara Lesser gazes wistfully at dozens of dolphins playing…
SourceSourceJuly 27, 2026 Full article
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France, Spain battle ‘monster’ wildfires with more heat on the wayNews

France, Spain battle ‘monster’ wildfires with more heat on the way

Bordeaux, France | AFP | Muser NewsDesk (Updated 27 July 2026 - 07:08) Firefighters battled massive blazes tearing through forests across France and Spain Monday, as…
SourceSourceJuly 27, 2026 Full article
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Deadly wildfires in Europe force thousands to fleeNews

Deadly wildfires in Europe force thousands to flee

Lège-Cap-Ferret, France | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Wildfires fanned by scorching temperatures and strong winds swept through parts of western Europe on Friday, triggering a state…
SourceSourceJuly 24, 2026 Full article
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Potato juice to supply bio-based fatty acids for European industryNews

Potato juice to supply bio-based fatty acids for European industry

PACE will retrofit part of a Dutch processing facility to demonstrate industrial production from an underused side-stream Summary: Potato juice from the potato processing industry…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJuly 23, 2026 Full article
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EU watchdog reduces safe level of exposure to ‘forever chemical’ TFANews

EU watchdog reduces safe level of exposure to ‘forever chemical’ TFA

Rome, Italy | AFP | Muser NewsDesk The EU's food safety agency said Wednesday it has dramatically reduced the acceptable daily intake level of the so-called…
SourceSourceJuly 22, 2026 Full article
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SOWISE+ project to demonstrate urban waste biorefinery at industrial scaleNews

SOWISE+ project to demonstrate urban waste biorefinery at industrial scale

Turning urban waste into high-value bio-based materials through an industrial-scale biorefinery Summary: Urban biowaste and post-consumer absorbent hygiene products will provide the raw materials for…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJuly 22, 2026 Full article
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France sees record area burned by wildfires by mid-July: monitorNews

France sees record area burned by wildfires by mid-July: monitor

Paris, France | AFP More than 42,000 hectares have burned in France by mid-July this year, surpassing the previous record set in 2022, according to the…
SourceSourceJuly 21, 2026 Full article
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Uproar in France over reintroduction of bee-harming pesticidesNews

Uproar in France over reintroduction of bee-harming pesticides

Paris, France | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Environmentalists in France were outraged Tuesday as parliament looked set to authorise some farmers to use two bee-harming pesticides…
SourceSourceJuly 21, 2026 Full article
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Great Barrier Reef at risk of ‘collapse’, scientists warnNews

Great Barrier Reef at risk of ‘collapse’, scientists warn

Auckland, New Zealand | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Australia's Great Barrier Reef is at a very high risk of extreme and widespread bleaching and "ecosystem collapse"…
SourceSourceJuly 21, 2026 Full article
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Canada faces one of its most intense fire seasonsNews

Canada faces one of its most intense fire seasons

Montreal, Canada | AFP | Muser NewsDesk With nearly 1,000 active fires and an area as large as Belgium already burned, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney…
SourceSourceJuly 20, 2026 Full article
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Swiss researchers hoard vast trove of NASA climate dataNews

Swiss researchers hoard vast trove of NASA climate data

Geneva, Switzerland | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Researchers have copied massive quantities of publicly-available climate and environmental data from NASA onto a Swiss supercomputer to train…
SourceSourceJuly 20, 2026 Full article