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As the Balkans baked in temperatures hovering or exceeding 40 degrees Celsius in June, leaving up to six foreigners dead or missing, the Greek government is warning tourists of the dangers associated with the extreme heat. Greek Minister of Health Adonis Georgiadis said holidaymakers need to be "very careful" while visiting the country as it grapples with soaring temperatures, and to not take "unnecessary risks". "We have had cases of foreign travellers who lost their lives in Greece. They lost their lives because they underestimated the phenomenon," he told reporters at a press conference. Wa...
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Heavy rains and lower temperatures are saturating bee colonies and their habitats in France. In Saint-Selve, southwestern France, one beekeeper says June is meant to be a "honey flow" month – but few hives are filled with the nectar-seeking insects. "Basically we’re supposed to be in a honey flow, so filled up with honey, but there are very few of them," Dominique Laforce said. The beekeeper said the rains are wetting the flowers to an extent that the bees can't get inside, "and it won’t go out and most of all the bee won’t succeed in finding out the nectar," she added. Four years ago the Euro...
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As Europe swelters in an early heatwave, concerns are mounting about what Paris’s weather will be like during the upcoming Olympics. The event, kicking off on 24 July, could become the hottest Games on record, posing risks of serious illness and even death to athletes. A new report, Rings of Fire: Heat Risks at the 2024 Paris Olympics, describes the 34C temperatures at the 2021 Games in Tokyo as “a window into an alarming, escalating norm for Summer Olympics”. “Competitors vomited and fainted at finish lines, wheelchairs were deployed to carry athletes away from sun-scorched arenas and the fea...
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Sitting on the tiny Thai island of Koh Mak as lightning flashed on the horizon, my eyes were glued to the AccuWeather app. I was mesmerised by the storm tracking feature, which followed the weather front as it erratically skirted my cliffside bungalow. On an island so obscure that it was absent from the world map up until the late 1960s - when German tourists became some of the first European visitors to what they dubbed the ‘Lost World’ - I wondered how a US weather service could so accurately predict the conditions here. So I decided to find out. What does it take to deliver some of the worl...
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How can a band create an ecologically sustainable vinyl record? Coldplay seem to have the answer, with their newly announced album 'Moon Music' to be released on vinyl made from recycled plastic bottles. The British band said the EcoRecord LP will be a “world first” and will reduce carbon emissions by 85% compared with traditional 140g vinyls, and prevent the manufacture of more than 25 metric tonnes of virgin plastic. CD copies will be made from 90% recycled plastic, with a 78% reduction in emissions compared with traditional CD manufacture. Released on 4 October, 'Moon Music' will have a spe...
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A landslide surged over a highway in central Ecuador on Sunday, killing at least seven people and leaving dozens more missing as heavy rains pummeled the country and caused rivers to overflow. It comes as heavy rains have drenched Ecuador and other parts of the region over the past several days. Authorities in the country say the flood of mud and debris ploughed down the hillside and hit three cars, two houses, and a bus in the Ecuadorian resort city of Baños. Rescuers were treating nine injured and had retrieved seven bodies from the disaster site, while 30 people were believed to be trapped ...
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Last month, the AI Seoul Summit took place in South Korea, bringing government leaders together with tech companies, academics, and civil society to advance discussions on the safety of artificial intelligence. The event concluded with 16 of the world’s most powerful tech giants promising to minimise the risks of the AI revolution. These global corporations, including the likes of Microsoft, Meta and IBM, signed up to the newly developed "Frontier AI Safety Commitments". They will now have to publish their own safety frameworks, explaining how they will measure the risks of their AI models. Si...
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Heatwaves have hit Europe earlier than ever this year, with Greece, Cyprus, Türkiye and Italy already hit by extreme heat, with some places seeing temperatures 10C above the seasonal average. The risk of heatwaves at the Paris Olympic Games has left organisers sweating about the safety of athletes. Spain is bracing itself for another blistering summer, releasing a new map to help with more accurate heatwave predictions. Cities across the continent are preparing with adaptations for extreme heat. We’ve now had 11 record-breaking months of heat in a row and sea surface temperatures in the North ...
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Climate change is leading to a spike in mosquito-borne disease outbreaks in Europe, according to the latest official figures. There were 130 locally acquired cases of dengue fever in the EU last year, compared to 71 cases in 2022, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) revealed this week. There has been a recent spike in cases in Europe, with the invasive mosquito species found in 13 EU countries. Dengue fever is spread by tiger mosquitoesDengue - also called break-bone fever because of how bad the joint pain can be - is a viral and potentially fatal infection spread to ...
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The EU Parliamentary election results have ended the greenest European Parliament ever. The last five years have seen the bloc embrace one of the most ambitious climate strategies in the world, the Green Deal. Now Green parties have shed seats, dropping from the fourth largest group to the sixth with 53 seats. The mainstream parties which supported the Green Deal kept their majority which means it likely isn’t going anywhere. But with wins for radical parties on both the left and right - which often oppose the plan - it could mean a fight to push for further measures to meet net-zero targets. ...
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