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![China issues highest weather alert as temperatures plunge](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/db/7f/a6/China-issues-highest-weather-alert--158788_small.jpg)
China issues highest weather alert as temperatures...
Severe weather warnings were in place across swathes of China on Wednesday as temperatures plummeted across the south and Beijing...
![Rampant water pollution threatens Iraq's shrinking rivers](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/28/77/91/Rampant-water-pollution-threatens-I-442372_small.jpg)
Rampant water pollution threatens Iraq's shrinking...
Stricken by drought and depleted by upstream dams, Iraq's once mighty rivers the Tigris and Euphrates are suffocating under pollut...
![Lack of rain leaves Italy gasping](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/a8/2d/5a/Lack-of-rain-leaves-Italy-gasping-006030_small.jpg)
Lack of rain leaves Italy gasping
A blanket of smog covers Milan, empty reservoir bake in Sicily and wine production is down in Piedmont as a lack of rain across It...
![Big firms with $7 tn exit climate investment pressure group](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/07/1f/2e/Big-firms-with--7-tn-exit-climate-i-436084_small.jpg)
Big firms with $7 tn exit climate investment press...
A pair of large investment companies with nearly $7 trillion in assets, said Thursday they exited a climate change investor initia...
![Polar bears struggling to adapt to longer ice-free Arctic periods](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/ed/d4/2a/Polar-bears-struggling-to-adapt-to--877101_small.jpg)
Polar bears struggling to adapt to longer ice-free...
Polar bears in Canada's Hudson Bay risk starvation as climate change lengthens periods without Arctic Sea ice, despite the creatur...
![Climate protesters target Botticelli painting in Florence](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/80/db/34/Climate-protesters-target-Botticell-084847_small.jpg)
Climate protesters target Botticelli painting in F...
Italian activists on Tuesday stuck photographs of climate change devastation to a glass panel protecting Botticelli's famed Birth...
![Travel chaos as US northeast hit by snowstorm](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/d2/f3/82/Travel-chaos-as-US-northeast-hit-by-117466_small.jpg)
Travel chaos as US northeast hit by snowstorm
Millions of people in the northeastern United States were engulfed by snow on Tuesday as a powerful winter storm battered the regi...
![France suspends subsidised electric car scheme after surge](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/31/f2/2f/France-suspends-subsidised-electric-655377_small.jpg)
France suspends subsidised electric car scheme aft...
The French government said Monday it was suspending a scheme to lease electric cars from just 100 euros ($109) a month after subsi...
![Greta Thunberg marches in France against oil drilling](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/d7/50/c2/Greta-Thunberg-marches-in-France-ag-768786_small.jpg)
Greta Thunberg marches in France against oil drill...
The "Stop Petrole Bassin d'Arcachon" group, which opposes oil drilling in the area around the seaside resort of Arcachon, claimed...
![Quiet revolution? UK sees new breed of 'green' narrowboats](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/09/1b/cb/Quiet-revolution--UK-sees-new-breed-302030_small.jpg)
Quiet revolution? UK sees new breed of 'green' nar...
Motoring down the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal in England's West Midlands, Neil Cocksedge's narrowboat at first sight look...
!['Miracle' rescue nearly 60 hours after Philippine landslide](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/5e/37/6e/-Miracle--rescue-nearly-60-hours-af-747077_small.jpg)
'Miracle' rescue nearly 60 hours after Philippine...
The rescue of a child on Friday nearly 60 hours after a landslide hit a gold-mining village in the southern Philippines has been h...
![US banking system 'well-capitalized' despite risks: Yellen](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/27/03/d3/US-banking-system--well-capitalized-416614_small.jpg)
US banking system 'well-capitalized' despite risks...
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Thursday that the country's banking system is "well-capitalized" even as some banks face s...
![Scientists in UK set fusion record](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/ca/8d/c1/Scientists-in-UK-set-fusion-record-060906_small.jpg)
Scientists in UK set fusion record
Scientists in Britain announced Thursday they had smashed a record for generating fusion energy in the final experiment using the...
![Spain sees warmest January on record](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/83/b4/da/Spain-sees-warmest-January-on-recor-309072_small.jpg)
Spain sees warmest January on record
Spain has just experienced its warmest January since current records began in 1961, national weather office Aemet said Wednesday,...
![January 2024 was warmest on record in Spain](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/ab/88/78/January-2024-was-warmest-on-record--741472_small.jpg)
January 2024 was warmest on record in Spain
Spain last month experienced its warmest January since current records began in 1961, national weather office Aemet said on Wednes...
![Landslide at Philippine gold-mining village kills seven](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/4b/3e/d8/Landslide-at-Philippine-gold-mining-333040_small.jpg)
Landslide at Philippine gold-mining village kills...
At least seven people were killed and 31 injured when a rain-induced landslide hit a gold-mining village in a mountainous region o...
![Five people killed, 31 injured in Philippine landslide: official](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/61/4a/08/Five-people-killed--31-injured-in-P-086882_small.jpg)
Five people killed, 31 injured in Philippine lands...
At least five people were killed and 31 injured when a rain-induced landslide engulfed two buses and houses in a mountainous regio...
![El Nino brings hunger, drought fears to Madagascar](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/77/fc/c3/El-Nino-brings-hunger--drought-fear-310973_small.jpg)
El Nino brings hunger, drought fears to Madagascar...
In a small village in southern Madagascar, dozens of women shelter from the scorching sun under a tree as they wait to weigh their...
![EU unveils 2040 climate goal under pressure from farmer protests](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/62/72/fa/EU-unveils-2040-climate-goal-under--211210_small.jpg)
EU unveils 2040 climate goal under pressure from f...
The European Union on Tuesday unveils its climate targets for 2040 and a roadmap for the next stage of its energy transition, with...
![Deadly California storm brings unrelenting rain, flooding](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/01/22/b7/Deadly-California-storm-brings-unre-977419_small.jpg)
Deadly California storm brings unrelenting rain, f...
A powerful storm lashing California on Monday has left at least three people dead and caused devastating mudslides and flooding, a...
![Powerful California storm brings record rain, flooding](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/11/d0/c8/Powerful-California-storm-brings-re-001817_small.jpg)
Powerful California storm brings record rain, floo...
Millions of people faced dangerous flooding in California Monday after a storm brought record rains and gusting winds, leaving at...
!['Vanity project': a climate summit in oil-rich Azerbaijan](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/c4/9d/93/-Vanity-project---a-climate-summit--717171_small.jpg)
'Vanity project': a climate summit in oil-rich Aze...
The decision to hold a climate summit in oil-and-gas-producer Azerbaijan, which will be hosting the COP29 UN Climate Change Confer...
![Wildfires scorch central Chile, death toll tops 110](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/21/d7/00/Wildfires-scorch-central-Chile--dea-577013_small.jpg)
Wildfires scorch central Chile, death toll tops 11...
The death toll from central Chile's blazing wildfires climbed to at least 112 people on Sunday, after President Gabriel Boric warn...
![Chile wildfire survivors return to horrifying aftermath](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/5e/d8/32/Chile-wildfire-survivors-return-to--067006_small.jpg)
Chile wildfire survivors return to horrifying afte...
Within minutes his world erupted in a hellish fire: Abraham Mardones, with just the clothes on his back, miraculously managed to e...
![Heatwave risk hovers over Paris Olympics](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/05/0a/74/Heatwave-risk-hovers-over-Paris-Oly-770177_small.jpg)
Heatwave risk hovers over Paris Olympics
Scorching summer heat is hard to imagine now in mid-winter Paris, but in six months' time when the world's athletes arrive for the...
![Parisians vote in anti-SUV parking price referendum](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/63/7d/21/Parisians-vote-in-anti-SUV-parking--788000_small.jpg)
Parisians vote in anti-SUV parking price referendu...
Parisians voted on Sunday in a referendum on tripling parking costs for hefty SUV-style cars, a campaign that has drivers' groups...
![Extreme heat drives Chile wildfires leaving at least 64 dead](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/42/09/ae/Extreme-heat-drives-Chile-wildfires-187770_small.jpg)
Extreme heat drives Chile wildfires leaving at lea...
Wildfires blazing in central Chile have now killed at least 64 people and the toll will keep rising, President Gabriel Boric said...
!['It was hell': Survivor recounts rush of flames in Chile wildfire](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/e7/95/cd/-It-was-hell---Survivor-recounts-ru-601116_small.jpg)
'It was hell': Survivor recounts rush of flames in...
Rodrigo Pulgar was at home listening to news of the wildfires devastating parts of Chile when flames suddenly began rushing over h...
!['Catastrophic' Chile wildfires leave at least 19 dead](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/be/36/0f/-Catastrophic--Chile-wildfires-leav-676964_small.jpg)
'Catastrophic' Chile wildfires leave at least 19 d...
Wildfires blazing across central and southern Chile have left at least 19 people dead, officials said Saturday, warning the toll w...
![10 feared dead in Chile forest fires](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/7c/4c/c0/10-feared-dead-in-Chile-forest-fire-509831_small.jpg)
10 feared dead in Chile forest fires
Chilean firefighters were battling rapidly expanding wildfires Saturday that officials fear have claimed around 10 lives and are t...
![Hit them in the pocket: how cities are going after SUVs](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/17/f5/42/Hit-them-in-the-pocket--how-cities--688777_small.jpg)
Hit them in the pocket: how cities are going after...
Two decades after London began moves to clamp down on sports utility vehicles, Parisians on Sunday will vote on whether to squeeze...
![Biden taps insider Podesta as US climate envoy](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/e8/30/a8/Biden-taps-insider-Podesta-as-US-cl-715607_small.jpg)
Biden taps insider Podesta as US climate envoy
President Joe Biden on Wednesday named John Podesta as US climate envoy, picking another veteran Washington insider to succeed Joh...