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East Asia hit by heatwaves as climate change pushes temperatures to record highs
1+ day, 22+ min ago (661+ words) Devastating heatwaves have gripped many parts of East Asia in recent weeks as the region experiences record-high temperatures during the Northern Hemisphere’s summer. Human-driven climate change is resulting in more extreme weather, which disproportionately impacts the working class and the…...
Economic costs of climate change soar in Europe, leaving working class to pay
4+ day, 8+ hour ago (903+ words) The costs of Europe’s summer of heatwaves and wildfires have begun to be counted, and projections made of the losses likely to be suffered in the rest of the decade. These should be laid at the door of the fossil…...
European wildfires continue, with record land burned and nuclear plants on verge of shutdown
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (756+ words) Europe entered August with severe wildfires burning in Greece, France, Spain and Turkey, hundreds more scattered fires underway in Romania, and a drought and fire crisis threatening nuclear power provision in Britain, Hungary and Romania. The ferocity of the fires…...
Major earthquake hits southern Japan
1+ week, 6+ day ago (813+ words) A powerful earthquake struck the Kumamoto Prefecture on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu yesterday at 4:27 p.m. local time. At least 13 people are dead and hundreds have been hospitalised. The death toll is likely to rise as search-and-rescue teams scour damaged…...
Deadly flooding strikes West Virginia and Texas as global climate catastrophe intensifies
2+ week, 22+ hour ago (668+ words) Flash floods have devastated communities across West Virginia, Texas and other regions of the United States this week, the latest in an accelerating series of extreme weather events unfolding as global temperatures continue to shatter records and federal disaster response…...
Almost 400,000 flee as heatwave wildfires rip through Europe
2+ week, 2+ day ago (654+ words) More than 375,000 people have been driven from their homes and holiday accommodation in France and Spain as the wildfires produced by Europe’s third heatwave of the summer sweep across a continent enduring what is the worst heatwave season ever recorded....
T. rex fossil sold for $50.1 million
2+ week, 4+ day ago (462+ words) The Gus specimen was recovered at a site in South Dakota by commercial collector Thomas Heitkamp and his team at Theropoda Expeditions during an excavation that began in 2021. Sale prices of such valuable scientific specimens have been on the increase…...
The specter of “AI communism”: Chinese open-weight models and the crisis of the American AI bubble
2+ week, 5+ day ago (392+ words) The release of two Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) models ranking with the most advanced American systems, timed to coincide with the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, has provoked panic in Washington and Silicon Valley, exposing the fragility of the…...
This week in history: July 20-26
3+ week, 2+ day ago (709+ words) In attendance were: Pierre Buyoya, representing the Tutsi-led government of Burundi; Domitien Ndayizeye, secretary general of the Hutu opposition party; Tanzania President Benjamin Mkapa; Kenya President Daniel arap Moi; and leading politicians from Zambia, Rwanda and the DRC. Initiated in…...
Catastrophic Bangladesh floods kill over 50 people
3+ week, 4+ day ago (518+ words) Bangladesh, one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries, is experiencing increasingly severe monsoon flooding as global warming intensifies rainfall across its river delta. Scientists report that extreme rainfall events in northeastern Bangladesh have quadrupled since 1950, and a powerful 2026 El Niño…...