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Environment

Extreme weather cost $2tn globally over past decade, report finds | Global economy

Violent weather cost the world $2tn over the past decade, a report has found, as diplomats descend on the Cop29…

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Environment

Why did so many die in Spain? Because Europe still hasn’t accepted the realities of extreme weather | Friederike Otto

At the time of writing, the death toll has risen to 214. Battered cars and other debris are piled up…

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World

Weddell seals in the Antarctic strategically time their most extreme dives to maximize foraging

Erebus Bay, Antarctica, is home to the southernmost population of the world’s southernmost living mammal — the Weddell seal. These…

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Business

The US swing states targeted with extreme ads

Pivotal battlegrounds are being swamped by messaging from Harris and Trump campaigns Source link

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Environment

‘There is a python with a platypus in its mouth’: botanist’s extreme monotreme v reptile encounter | Queensland

A botanist was admiring a myrtle shrub in bloom in an obscure state forest just west of Gympie in Queensland…

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Politics

‘Extreme wealth’ tax demanded by cross-party MPs

A dozen Labour MPs have joined a cross-party call for an “extreme wealth” tax in this month’s Budget. The MPs…

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Most Shared

From Ian to Helene to Milton: Extreme weather is anything but ‘natural’

What do you do when people aren’t taking the climate crisis seriously? You make them part of the problem.  That’s…

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Environment

The Guardian view on Hurricane Milton and other disasters: extreme politics is worsening extreme weather | Editorial

The preparations for Hurricane Milton were on a mammoth scale, as the clean-up will be. The storm thankfully lost some…

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Health

Extreme rainfall poses health risks

An international study led by Helmholtz Munich investigates the health consequences of heavy rainfall events. Researchers analyzed the relationship between…

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Environment

Smokey air, nonstop nosebleeds. Life as a warehouse worker in a heatwave: ‘Products matter more than people’ | Extreme heat

Uncontrolled wildfires ripped across southern California amid a startling late summer heatwave this month, shrouding the region in thick, dark…

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