Spain is preparing for the worst of a powerful Mediterranean storm expected to strengthen on Monday, after it flooded streets, disrupted transport and killed a woman outside Barcelona. The weather agency AEMET issued its highest red alert for the eastern region of...

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Negotiators are meeting in Yerevan, Armenia, from October 19 to 30 for the UN Convention on Biological Diversity’s COP17, days before the 31st UN Climate Change Conference (COP31) opens in Antalya, Turkey. For the first time, countries will assess their collective...

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The Election Commission of India (ECI) has announced a series of changes since September 23, after an Indian Express report said that two of its three members, election commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, had recorded at least 14 objections over 10...

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  Lantana arrived in India as a garden plant after 1800 and now covers more than 13 million hectares. A 2025 study found that dry forests invaded by it had fewer plant species. A pretty ornamental plant seems an unlikely forest villain, yet that is what lantana...

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Four Canadian soldiers have died and 39 people were injured, 19 of them critically, after a fast-moving grass fire swept over troops carrying out live-fire combat exercises at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright in Alberta. Prime Minister Mark Carney called it one of the...

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