Scientists estimate European heatwave caused 2,300 deaths last week
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Weather forecast is for extreme heat in Europe. Heat related deaths are expected.
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Survivors and families of those killed in an oil rig disaster forty-five years ago will finally get compensation from the Norwegian state after a close vote passed in the country's parliament
12 votes -
Saving the sea cows of Vanuatu. There’s still hope for “the friendliest ‘fish’ in the water.”
6 votes -
Black paint on wind turbines sharply reduces bird death but there are issues
26 votes -
A glass Chicago building killed thousands of migrating birds until dots were added to the windows
12 votes -
Race to save lives and ancient artefacts in South Korea as wildfires rage
8 votes -
In the most untouched, pristine parts of the Amazon, birds are dying. Scientists have theories.
10 votes -
Families of the more than 120 men killed when the Alexander L. Kielland oil rig capsized in 1980 were failed by official investigations in Norway, a new study has concluded
7 votes -
Los Angeles area wildfires: over 5K acres burned and over 30K people forced to evacuate so far
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Sweden begins wolf hunt – five entire families can be killed, totalling thirty wolves, in move campaigners say is illegal under EU law
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A marine heat wave in the Pacific Ocean that began a decade ago killed some four million common murres in Alaska, researchers say
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Iceland's president urged to intervene over Europe's last whaler – conservation groups are asking for the decision to allow Hvalur to hunt to be put on hold until after election
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At least 158 people die in devastating flash floods in eastern Spain
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Victims of toxic waste dump in Ivory Coast still seeking justice
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At least sixty-four dead and millions without power after hurricane Helene devastates south-eastern US states with landslides and flooding, washing away roads and bridges
61 votes -
Storm Boris casualties rise as floods ravage Central Europe
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Painting one turbine blade black has shown promise for preventing bird collisions
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Hvaldimir, a celebrated ‘spy’ whale, is found dead in Norway – first spotted in 2019 wearing what looked like a camera harness
15 votes -
‘I have lost everything’: Bangladesh floods strand 1.24 million families. Bangladeshis claim Indian dam water release made it more severe.
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A dam collapses in eastern Sudan after heavy rainfall and local media report dozens missing
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An American man has died in south Iceland after ice collapsed while he was on a group tour to a glacier
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Sphen, partner in Australian same-sex penguin couple, dies
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Sweden to kill 20% of its brown bears in annual hunt – conservationists say number of hunting licences granted is too high and condemn it as ‘pure trophy hunting’
15 votes -
India elephant app: Hopes new tech can reduce human and animal deaths
7 votes -
The death squads hunting environmental defenders
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Iceland's government has issued a license to the North Atlantic nation's last fin whaling company to hunt and kill 128 fin whales this year
13 votes -
Deaths mount and water rationed as India faces record heat
43 votes -
At least 147 dead in monumental flood in Brazil. 127 missing.
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Big farms are under pressure to address the problem of dying salmon in Norway's vast fish-farm industry
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Maui wildfire report: Officials declined extra help before a deadly inferno engulfed Lahaina, killing more than 100 people
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Hogzilla or Jaws? Wild pigs kill more people than sharks, research reveals.
13 votes -
Dozens trapped in tunnels after Taiwan’s strongest quake in twenty-five years kills at least nine
27 votes -
Iowa fertilizer spill kills nearly all fish across sixty mile stretch of rivers
47 votes -
Please, enough with the dead butterflies!
83 votes -
New report shows that a crowded historic neighborhood suffered disproportionate casualties in Lahaina Hawaii fire
9 votes -
Powerful quake rocks Japan, nearly 100,000 residents ordered to evacuate
37 votes -
Hooked on volcanoes? Tourists vie to catch Iceland's eruptions.
9 votes -
How to stop an Icelandic whale hunt – Elissa Phillips and Anahita Babaei on chaining themselves to the crow's nests of whaling vessels for thirty-three hours
9 votes -
Colombia will try to control invasive hippo population through sterilization, transfer, euthanasia
21 votes -
Two women were killed by bears on a day in 1967, the first such deaths in Glacier Park. Park policies completely changed in response.
9 votes -
The pristine Tana River, bordering Norway and Finland, is littered with the rotting corpses of an invasive Pacific salmon species
9 votes -
Risk of mass deaths as heatwaves start to pass survivability threshold
48 votes -
Libya flooding: 10,000 people thought to be missing after dams burst
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Flooding in Libya leaves 2,000 people feared dead and more missing after storm collapsed dams
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A mysterious murder in the peyote guardians’ sacred desert
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Iceland allows whaling to resume – activists say that whales will still suffer agonising deaths despite new regulations and monitoring
23 votes -
Migrant hunters in Greece show off captured 'trophies' after wildfire season
12 votes -
In deadly Maui fires, many had no warning and no way out. Those who dodged a barricade survived.
21 votes -
Dozens of reindeer have been killed for crossing into Russia, as Norway fixes Arctic fence to stop the Sámi herds crossing the border
7 votes