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Powerful storm pummels northeast US with rain, high winds
Sep 27, 2026 (AFP)
Heavy rain and strong winds battered the northeastern United States on Saturday as an unusually powerful autumn storm intensified, leaving tens of thousands wit...
Nor'easter lashes US east with punishing rain and wind
Sep 27, 2026 (AFP)
A powerful off-season storm kept lashing the heavily populated US Northeast corridor on Sunday with wind, rain and large waves, knocking out power for thousands...
Italy winemakers hail bumper harvest but cut output
Sep 27, 2026 (AFP)
Wine growers in Italy's Piedmont region are celebrating a bountiful harvest despite the extreme heat but warn they have to cut production because of trade headw...
Heavy rain kills 56 in India's Uttar Pradesh state: disaster agency
Sep 27, 2026 (AFP)
Heavy rain triggered floods and landslides in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, killing at least 56 people over the past three days, a government disa...
Powerful storm pummels northeast US with rain, high winds
Sep 27, 2026 (AFP)
Heavy rain and strong winds battered the northeastern United States on Sunday as an unusually powerful autumn storm intensified, leaving tens of thousands witho...
Floods, landslides kill 56 in India, 12 in Nepal: officials
Sep 27, 2026 (AFP)
Heavy rain triggered floods and landslides across northern India and Nepal, killing at least 68 people over the past three days, disaster authorities said on Su...
Trump admin to gut car fuel-economy standards on Monday
Sep 27, 2026 (AFP)
President Donald Trump's administration is set to finalize its rollback of fuel-economy standards on Monday, requiring no improvements beyond what vehicles are ...
Nor'easter lashes US east with punishing rain and wind
Sep 27, 2026 (AFP)
A powerful autumnal storm lashed the heavily populated US Northeast corridor on Sunday with wind, rain and large waves, knocking out power for thousands and kil...
Powerful storm pummels northeast US with rain, high winds
Sep 26, 2026 (AFP)
Heavy rain and strong winds battered the northeastern United States on Saturday as an unusually powerful autumn storm intensified, forcing the cancellation of h...
Indonesia fires threatens critically-endangered orangutan: IUCN
Sep 26, 2026 (AFP)
Wildfires that tore through Indonesian Borneo's vast tropical forests have piled pressure on critically endangered Bornean orangutans, the International Union f...
Powerful storm pummels US Northeast
Sep 26, 2026 (AFP)
Heavy rain and strong winds battered the northeastern United States on Saturday as an unusually powerful autumn storm intensified, forcing the cancelation of hu...
El Nino rewrites the menu in the world's top restaurants
Sep 26, 2026 (AFP)
A record-breaking El Nino will likely force the world's top chefs to rethink their menus ahead of droughts, floods and heatwaves upending global food systems.
Drought declared in three-quarters of India's richest state
Sep 26, 2026 (AFP)
Drought has hit three-quarters of India's richest state of Maharashtra, the government said on Saturday, after prolonged low rainfall in the region home to the ...
Hurricane Nolo watch issued for Hawaii's Big Island
Sep 25, 2026 (AFP)
Hurricane Nolo strengthened Thursday, with heavy rainfall threatening "catastrophic" flooding on Hawaii's Big Island, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) sai...
Hurricane Polo triggers huge waves in coastal Mexican city
Sep 25, 2026 (AFP)
Mexican authorities announced the deployment of nearly 20,000 security forces in the Pacific coast states, as Hurricane Polo brought rains and heavy swells on F...
Torrential rains flood towns in western Libya
Sep 25, 2026 (AFP)
Torrential rains caused severe flooding across several towns in western Libya overnight Friday, cutting electricity and running water and trapping residents in ...
Nepal PM says floods 'a warning to the world' about climate change
Sep 25, 2026 (AFP)
Nepal's catastrophic flooding last month "was a warning to the world" about the rising dangers of climate change, Prime Minister Balendra Shah told the United N...
India's 'Tree Father' plants for a greener future
Sep 25, 2026 (AFP)
With Delhi's choking haze hanging overhead, Peepal Baba presses a young tree into the earth, continuing a nearly half-century mission to restore India's vanishi...
Guatemala ensures survival of vulnerable 'fossil' fish
Sep 25, 2026 (AFP)
In a freshwater canal surrounded by mangroves in southern Guatemala, hundreds of baby tropical gars -- a torpedo-shaped fish with an alligator-like snout dubbed...
Bacteria suspected in deaths of hundreds of baby whales off Argentina
Sep 25, 2026 (AFP)
A bacterial infection is suspected of killing hundreds of baby whales in the southern Argentine region of Patagonia, a marine mammal expert told AFP on Thursday...
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