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A major power outage hit the Iberian Peninsula and parts of western Europe on Monday, leaving millions without electricity, disrupting transport, telecommunications and economic activity in several regions. The worst-hit countries were Spain,...

Europe faced the most extensive floods in the last decade in 2024, with 30% of the continent's hydrographic network affected. According to a joint report by the Copernicus Climate Change Service and the World Meteorological Organization...

After three years of intense negotiations, member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) have reached a consensus on a historic text aimed at preparing for and responding to future pandemics, AFP reports. "This marks an important...

Spanish public broadcaster RTVE has launched an official appeal to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the organiser of the Eurovision Song Contest, to initiate a debate on the participation of Israeli public broadcaster KAN in this year's...

Europe records hottest March on record as climate crisis deepens. The global heatwave continues: March this year broke all-time temperature records, extending a continuous warming streak that has lasted since last summer, according to the...

The United States risks running out of cash to pay its obligations by mid-July unless Congress adopts a resolution to raise or suspend the maximum national debt ceiling, according to an analysis published by the Bipartisan Policy Center think...

Argentina se confruntă cu inundaţii devastatoare. Cel puţin 16 persoane au murit şi zeci de oameni sunt daţi dispăruţi în oraşul portuar Bahia Blanca, Argentina, după ce o furtună violentă a provocat inundaţii masive, au anunţat autorităţile....

Argentina is facing devastating floods. At least 16 people have died and dozens are missing in the port city of Bahia Blanca, Argentina, after a violent storm caused massive flooding, authorities said. President Javier Milia declared three days...

The US withdrawal from the United Nations, a withdrawal promoted by Elon Musk, senior advisor to President Donald Trump and coordinator of the Department for Government Efficiency, would have a negative impact on the international institution,...

The "Apocalypse Vault', the global seed bank located on the island of Spitsbergen in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, has received another 14,000 seed samples to protect the planet's agricultural biodiversity. The facility,...

The European Council will take a decision in June on the financing of military mobility programmes for the current budgetary framework and, following the decision, the European Parliament will approve either an adjustment to the current budget or...

Uniunea Europeană este incapabilă în acest moment să îşi consolideze apărarea comună, deoarece mobilitatea militară este blocată de birocraţia administrativă şi de subfinanţare cronică, reiese din raportul publicat aseară de Curtea de Conturi...

The European Union is currently unable to strengthen its common defence because military mobility is blocked by administrative bureaucracy and chronic underfunding, according to a report published last night by the European Court of Auditors...

A new study published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth and Environment warns that a 2°C increase in global temperatures will triple the area of land where heat becomes dangerous even for healthy people. The affected areas could be the size of...

Over 9.4 million citizens who went to the polls on November 24 had their options canceled by the Constitutional Court of Romania, which, after validating the first round of the presidential elections on December 2, reversed its decision on...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivered a powerful message to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, highlighting the major dangers facing humanity. He compared the current situation to the myth of Pandora, warning that global actions and...

A groundbreaking study recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine has shown that a combination of two existing biologic drugs can stop the progression of multiple myeloma, a serious type of blood cancer. The research, coordinated...

The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, stressed, during a hearing at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), that the climate emergency is essentially an unprecedented health crisis. Climate...

The year 2025 could become one of the three warmest years ever recorded globally, according to the British agency Met Office. The estimates come after a year 2024 that could break all temperature records, exceeding for the first time the...

Water shortages or excesses are causing major problems for people. Record-breaking global droughts are becoming "the new norm" forcing world leaders to "radically rethink" how they manage them, the UN warned, publishing a global...

The fight against polluters is an extremely tough one. At the conference in Busan, South Korea, talks for a global treaty on plastic pollution entered a critical phase, marked by strong opposition from oil-producing countries such as Saudi...

Spain's left-wing government has approved an innovative measure that allows employees to take up to four days of "paid leave" in the event of climate emergencies, such as floods, storms or other extreme weather events. The decision...

Air pollution caused by fires has become a major global problem, responsible for more than 1.5 million deaths per year, according to a study recently published in the prestigious journal The Lancet. This alarming statistic highlights the...

Natural phenomena, including extreme ones, are linked. Record-breaking ocean temperatures increased the maximum wind speeds that accompanied all hurricanes formed in the Atlantic in 2024, according to a study, thus confirming that global warming...

Fires have devastated large parts of the world over the past decade. Last year, Europe, the Middle East and Africa suffered some of the worst forest fires since 2000, according to the Forest Fires 2023 report, published by the Commission's...

Climate-driven migration is a major concern for governments around the world. The global climate crisis is no longer a distant future, but a present reality. Every year, millions of people are forced to flee their homes due to natural disasters...

Fenomenele meteo generate de schimbările climatice continuă să producă pagube majore economiei globale, cu un cost total de peste 2 trilioane de dolari în ultimii zece ani, conform unui raport al Camerei Internaţionale de Comerţ (ICC)....

Weather events generated by climate change continue to cause major damage to the global economy, with a total cost of more than $2 trillion over the past decade, according to a report by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). An estimated...

In a context of extreme adversity, Israel's high-tech sector has demonstrated a remarkable capacity for resilience and growth, according to a report on the industry by https://finder.startupnationcentral.org/ and posted on editorial address...

Despite the undeniable success of American liquefied natural gas (LNG) in global markets, the recent policy of the Biden-Harris administration risks jeopardizing this hard-won position, says an article published on the website Zerohedge. While...

Climate change is affecting more and more regions around the world, and our country is no exception. The global climate crisis has reached a critical point, highlighted by data from 2023, which shows an increase in the average global temperature...

Sport is a field that brings people together, offering the opportunity to overcome cultural barriers and unite diverse communities. However, racism remains a major problem, often visible globally in many popular sports, affecting both players and...

Humanity is adapting and trying to cope with nature's challenges. Almost two decades after the devastating tsunami of 2004, humanity now has a global early warning system designed to protect millions of lives from this type of natural...

The duration and frequency of heat waves in Romania have increased significantly in recent decades, and projections point to an increasingly hot future. By 2040, approximately 50% of the urban population will be affected by extreme temperatures,...

Poverty is one of the major "diseases" of the beginning of the 21st century. The interweaving of crises accentuates the gulf between opulent wealth and abject poverty. Over a billion people worldwide live in conditions of acute poverty,...

Water is one of the vital resources of life which is heavily affected by pollution.

A recent World Bank report shows an alarming situation for the world's 26 poorest countries, which are home to 40% of the people most affected by poverty. These economies have reached the highest level of debt in the last 18 years and face...

Wildlife populations across the planet have suffered a shocking 73% decline in just 50 years, according to WWF's latest Living Planet Report. This dramatic loss signals the highest level of nature degradation in the Anthropocene era, fueling...

In the face of increasingly frequent and devastating climate threats, an innovative and simple solution is gaining ground: the rapid transfer of money to affected populations via mobile phone. Instead of waiting for a disaster to strike, this...

The intense droughts and extreme floods that are becoming more and more frequent around the globe are a "prelude" to future developments in the context of climate change, the United Nations (UN) warned in a recent report, sent by AFP....