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FILE PHOTO: A Hurricane warning sign is pictured in Corpus Christi, Texas, U.S. July 7, 2024. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril/File Photo
InfrastructureNewsUtilitiesWeather

Texas energy industry braces for Beryl as hurricane makes landfall

Hurricane Beryl threatens disruption to energy industry as key ports closed and production sites evacuated.

People lineup at a splash park ti try and beat the heat in Calgary, Alta., Wednesday, June 30, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
ClimateNewsWeather

Temperatures over 30 degrees expected in Alberta, most of Saskatchewan

Environment Canada says the two Prairie provinces will experience temperatures of at least 30 degrees, with some parts of Alberta forecast to reach...

A woman shields herself from the sun with an umbrella on the Halifax Waterfront in Halifax on Thursday, July 6, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese
ClimateNewsWeather

High heat and humidity forecast for much of Canada’s Atlantic provinces

Environment Canada says daytime highs are forecast to hit around 31 degrees, but the accompanying humidity will make it feel more like 37...

A group of men board up a restaurant in Port Lavaca, Texas, on July 7, 2024, as they prepare for the arrival of tropical storm Beryl (AFP)
ElectricityNewsWeather

Texas hunkers down as Hurricane Beryl approaches

Power outages feared as Hurricane Beryl's 130kph winds approach Texan coast.

FILE PHOTO: Muslim pilgrims walk with umbrellas on the third day of the Satan stoning ritual, amid extremely hot weather, during the annual haj pilgrimage, in Mina, Saudi Arabia, June 18, 2024. REUTERS/Saleh Salem/File Photo
ClimateEnvironmentNewsResiliencyWeather

2024 could be world’s hottest year as June breaks records

Every month since June 2023 — 13 months in a row — has ranked as the planet's hottest since records began, compared with...

FILE PHOTO: Drilling rigs operate at sunset in Midland, Texas, U.S., February 13, 2019. Picture taken February 13, 2019. REUTERS/Nick Oxford/File Photo
BusinessClimateFuelLiquefied Natural GasMaritimeNewsOilResiliencyWeather

Oil slips as Gaza talks ease supply fears; Hurricane Beryl in focus

Brent crude futures inched up 11 cents, or 0.1%, to $86.65 a barrel as at 0042 GMT after closing down 89 cents on...

Oil tanks are pictured at Buckeye Partners' South Texas Gateway oil terminal in Corpus Christi, U.S.,  May 14, 2023. REUTERS/Arathy Somasekhar/File photo
ClimateNewsWeather

Port of Corpus Christi closes as Tropical Storm Beryl approaches Texas

The storm, which at one point intensified to a Category 5 hurricane, left a deadly trail of destruction across the Caribbean.

Palm oil -- the sworn enemy of environmental defenders -- is 'an insanely productive plant' that generates far more oil per hectare of land than alternatives like soybean and coconut, says Hannah Ritchie (AFP)
ClimateEnvironment

‘Not the end of the world’, says data scientist on the big issues

Scientists have admitted that there is good news on the climate change front

62-year old farmer Martha Waema, in her three-acre farm that was submerged by weeks of rainfall in Machakos, Kenya, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. According to Kenya's interior ministry, the heavy rains affected 400,000 people across the country and killed 289. Crops on approximately 168,092 acres of land have been destroyed, posing a threat to food security. This represents 0.24 percent of Kenya's based on World Bank Data that shows 48% of Kenya's land is agricultural. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)
ClimateEnvironmentNewsWeather

Kenya’s dramatic flooding sweeps away a central part of the economy: Its farms

Heavy rainfall has had a devastating effect on farms in Kenya

People cool off in misters along the Las Vegas Strip, Sunday, July 7, 2024, in Las Vegas. A heat wave is spreading across the Western U.S., the National Weather Service said, sending many residents in search of a cool haven from the dangerously high temperatures. (AP Photo/John Locher)
ClimateNewsWeather

Torrid heat bakes millions of people in large swaths of US, setting records and fanning wildfires

There has been a heatwave in the US that has threatened to break records

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