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UN climate chief Simon Stiell will tell a pre-COP summit in Fiji that heat endangers pregnancy, citing a Wellcome survey of 1,000 midwives and doctors. The survey counts clinicians' impressions, so it can press the issue ahead of COP31 but cannot say how often heat causes harm.
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Some 20 scientists funded by the Russian Academy of Sciences are diving on a Silk Road town that sank into Lake Issyk-Kul an estimated 800 years ago. What it adds to Central Asian history hangs on lab dates for remains that have proved hard to date.
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Hungary's paprika growing area fell from 13,029 hectares in 1979 to 1,410 in 2024, according to official statistics. Climate is one pressure among several on the small growers who remain, alongside cheap imports and a shortage of seasonal pickers.
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Lac des Brenets on the Doubs fell 14.66 metres below normal on October 1 and is days from passing a low-water record set in 1906. A local historian says it now empties every couple of years, a pattern AFP's account supports only with residents' testimony.
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Researchers warn an internal Kelvin wave from this year's super El Niño could lift California sea levels by up to 30 cm once it reaches the coast. The raised water would add to winter storm surges, though the oceanographer quoted expects it to distort tides for weeks.
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Chile's forestry body says parts of the Atacama took the heaviest seasonal rain in its records. The desert's dormant seed bank has responded with a bloom that is drawing tourists north of Santiago.
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Bogong moths are swarming across Australia again, nearly a decade after drought, pesticides and habitat loss cut their numbers by an estimated 99.5%. The return rests on sightings, and its likely cause, wetter weather, faces a severe El Nino this summer.
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Jonathan Cedeno's Guayaquil survey found water off Ecuador up to 6°C warmer at 40 meters over ten weeks, as fishers along the Pacific coast land less. Surface water warmed 2.5 to 3°C, and so far the damage is recorded in skippers' own accounts from four countries, with El Niño's peak still ahead.
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Switzerland's GLAMOS network found the country's glaciers lost 5.5% of their volume in 2026, bringing the five-year loss to nearly 20%. Their meltwater eased summer shortages this year, and the network says that relief is dwindling as glacier area shrinks.
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Wageningen and Leiden researchers have grown the Netherlands' first rice on 0.6 hectares of peat to test whether a wet crop can stop the land sinking. Whether the swap helps the climate depends on how much methane the wet fields give off compared with grassland, and the team is still measuring that.
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Malaysia and Singapore have few legal options against Indonesia after more than a month of its fire haze, according to legal experts quoted by AFP. The routes still open to them, a civil suit in Indonesia or Singapore's own haze law, both depend on proving which fires caused which harm.
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Tamil Nadu is lowering about 8,500 artificial reef modules around Kariyachalli, an island that has shrunk from 20.85 to 3.14 hectares since 1969. The evidence that the method works comes from one nearby island whose recovery was reported without figures, so Kariyachalli's own shoreline is the real test.
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More than 40 million people in the US Northeast are bracing for an unusually strong nor'easter, with gusts over 60 mph and up to 13 cm of rain forecast. Airlines and event organisers have already changed plans. Warnings about damaged power lines mean operators should plan for outages this weekend.
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A Category 1 peak, 30 to 35 inches of projected rain, and warnings across all eight major Hawaiian islands. The wind rating described almost none of the actual exposure.
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Bangkok declared a flood disaster in all 50 districts after almost 300 mm of rain in two days, with its pumps already at full capacity. Draining will take two to three days once the rain stops, the governor says, and low pressure is forecast through Sunday.
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Freshwater storage has been declining for ten years. The WMO's new report locates the loss in the slow reserves, groundwater and glaciers, that used to absorb bad years.
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The Met Office's Julian Heming credits this year's record El Nino for the ocean heat beneath the storm. Rapid intensification happens several times a year worldwide, and the two published accounts differ on Polo's peak winds.
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Science News reports the El Nino region's daily sea surface anomaly hit 3.08 C on September 21, past the 3.02 C mark set in November 2015. NOAA's preferred index still ranks the 1997-98 event stronger, leaving two analogues in play for the coming seasons.
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A joint declaration signed on 10 September puts about 1 GW of new data centres inside a EUR 40bn Emirati pledge to Germany, with no builder, location or timeline given for any of it. The signed company agreements in the same document total EUR 9.356bn.
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