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Bütler runs a law firm focusing on spatial planning and environmental law in Zurich. This past March, he delivered a seminar on the legal dimensions of glaciers before Zurich's glaciology group. "It's really a sad development that in Switzerland, the climate has changed very rapidly and strongly, and the effect is very real. And we lose a lot of snow and ice each year, which is hard to take," he said. "Some 40 years ago, it was a completely different world here."

The interior minister said at least 30 more were still missing, as authorities suspended the search operation for the day. Heavy rains struck western Kenya this weekend, causing a landslide late on Friday that has killed at least 21 people. Kenyan Interior Minister Kipchumba Murkomen said on Saturday that some 30 more were reported missing by their families in the tragedy that struck the Marakwet East county.

The highest temperature that Jonathan Paul has ever recorded in a London Tube station is about 42 Celsius, or 107.6 Fahrenheit. Paul, a researcher at Royal Holloway, University of London, uses his thermometer-equipped smartphone to take such readings. 42C is the kind of heat that would send someone running to the nearest air-conditioned building. Underground, though, they can't. There's nothing but stifling tunnels and screeching trains down here.

From 1988-1992, Yale grad and oil company founder George H.W. Bush was commander-in-chief; not only did Bush. Sr. improbably make vocal his belief that global warming ("The Greenhouse Effect") was real, but promised to employ "the White House effect" to counter it. Which included appointing as EPA chief Bill Reilly, an avid conservationist and veteran of Nixon's Presidential Council on Environmental Quality and the World Wildlife Fund.

Billie Eilish has a message for the world's most prominent billionaires: Give your money away, shorties. "I love you all, but there are a few people here with a lot more money than me," she said. "If you're a billionaire-why are you a billionaire? No hate, but yeah, give your money away, shorties," she said at the WSJ Magazine Innovator Awards.

Bill Gates has invested billions over the last two decades to help fight climate change. But in a new blog post, he argues that world is too focused on cutting short-term emissions. "The doomsday outlook is causing much of the climate community to focus too much on near-term emissions goals," he writes, calling for a "strategic pivot" to focus on "improving lives" by focusing development dollars more on agriculture and disease and poverty eradication.

"The lives of citizens can no longer be protected without the help of the Self-Defense Forces," Governor Kenta Suzuki told Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi on Tuesday. Wildlife officials say the number of incidents has sharply increased as bears stray into populated areas in search of food. "Attacks to the neck and face are extremely common," Suzuki said, noting that bears are now appearing not just in mountain regions but also in urban neighborhoods. He described the situation as "abnormal" and urged immediate federal assistance.

Rising global heat is now killing one person a minute around the world, a major report on the health impact of the climate crisis has revealed. It says the world's addiction to fossil fuels also causes toxic air pollution, wildfires and the spread of diseases such as dengue fever, and millions each year are dying owing to the failure to tackle global heating.

Cyclone Montha made landfall along India's eastern coast late Tuesday, bringing torrential rain and strong winds, the national weather office said. At least one person was killed, local media reports said. The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said on X that the Severe Cyclonic Storm Montha has weakened into a Cyclonic Storm over coastal Andhra Pradesh, in south India. "It is likely to move nearly northwestwards across coastal Andhra Pradesh and maintain its intensity of cyclonic storm during next 6 hours,

Every year, regions of the world are hit by natural disasters such as hurricanes or floods. As a result of climate change, these phenomena have not only increased in number and severity, but it has also become more difficult to predict when they might occur. Although the areas most prone to these hazards try to take proactive measures, many sources of information are not timely enough or are of limited use.

'The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.' This quote, attributed to Søren Kierkegaard, encapsulates the title's inspiration and installation's ethos, speaking to the titanic loss that comes from environmental degradation due to climate change. As art evokes emotion, it helps us humans visualize or appreciate the world from which we came, and indeed, where we might be headed.

The Halloween season is bringing more than ghosts and goblins this year for many, rising candy prices are the real scare. Stocking up on Halloween supplies in Toronto's Golden Triangle neighbourhood, a popular East York spot for trick-or-treaters, Shannon Crookston said she had to take a different approach this year because of rising costs. We used to do the full-size chocolate bars every year, Crookston said. But just given the cost, unfortunately, that wasn't an option anymore, so we've kind of had to do the treat size instead.

Carla leads a fight in flood-damaged Valencia where climate change and tourism threaten turtles along Spain's coastline. Carla grew up witnessing her father's fight to protect Valencia's fragile beach ecosystems. Now, as climate change warms the Mediterranean, sea turtles driven by rising sea temperatures have begun arriving to lay their eggs on her city's shoreline. But the beaches they rely on are under threat.

"The impacts of climate change are proven and undeniable,"

"There's still the climate issue," said Fernando Maximiliano, coffee market intelligence manager at financial-services network StoneX. "These tariffs, they're an additional layer, but we can't ignore the main, structural factor, which is the tighter supply."

Most wine produced in the world is derived from a shared grape species, Vitis vinifera. Consisting of thousands of varieties, vinifera spans broad geographical regions from western Europe to southwest Asia, from the Middle East across to North Africa. When you enjoy wines like Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Riesling, or Merlot, you're enjoying vinifera. But wine is a mutable force. It's always changing to reflect its present circumstances, and the story of vinifera is evolving.

The first half of 2025 was the costliest on record for major disasters in the US, driven by huge wildfires in Los Angeles and storms that battered much of the rest of the country, according to a climate non-profit that has resurrected work axed by Donald Trump's administration that tracked the biggest disasters. In the first six months of this year, 14 separate weather-related disasters that each caused at least $1bn in damage hit the US, the Climate Central group has calculated.

For decades, meteorologists and friends Evelyn Cusack and Séamus Walsh kept the Irish public informed about the forecast at Met Éireann. Now - as they launch a book all about the weather - the pair discuss how climate is changing from a local to a global concern, their despair at fossil-fuel driven policies and their hopes for the future

The concept of terroir has been essential to the history of Burgundy since (at least) the Middle Ages when the Cistercian monks started documenting vineyard sites across the region. Each plot was meticulously mapped out and categorized based on where the vines were most successful and what the resulting wines tasted like. Many of the areas that were selected as the cream of the crop back then are still highly regarded to this day.

His findings were interpreted by a group of artists for the show at the Last Shot Gallery. Maslin says the environmental impact of tech consumption is estimated to account for 6% of the human-driven climate crisis double that of the aviation industry. There is a lack of awareness that all the gadgets people are using and replacing are contributing to overconsumption, huge pollution and climate change, he said.

Celebrity news so often serves as a numbing distraction from depressing world events.

Early in her military career, she collapsed from heat exhaustion while carrying a 65lb pack on a sweltering hike in Quantico, Virginia. Years later in Afghanistan, Rivera drove a truck in temperatures nearing 120F (49C). But she was ready. She had taken a mechanics course twice to make sure she could fix the truck's air conditioning if it failed. She knew extreme heat could incapacitate her marines. They need water and good temps like everybody, she said.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.

After months of slight temperature shifts in the Pacific Ocean, La Niña has officially returned - the climate pattern that typically drives drought in Southern California. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday that La Niña conditions had arrived, a possibly foreboding sign for the Southland. The southern half of the Golden State still has not bounced back from the last year of below-average rainfall, and the reemergence of the ocean phenomenon could mean more drought, with another drier-than-average winter.

Floods in Pakistan and India re-ignite the debate on the mounting cost of global disasters. Global natural disasters are striking harder and more often, with climate emergencies now breaking records year after year. The UN says a child born today faces a nearly nine in 10 chance of experiencing a catastrophic flood during their lifetime.

As a Los Altos Hills homeowner who treasures the open space that surrounds my neighborhood, I applaud the efforts of the Santa Clara County FireSafe Council to seek a grant to set up a South Bay Prescribed Burn Association. Prescribed burns reduce fuels, leading to less intense wildfires, along with other proven benefits, such as promoting the resilience of forest habitats.