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![Thousands flee as cyclone heads towards Bangladesh](https://www.journaldebruxelles.be/media/shared/articles/00/9c/7b/Thousands-flee-as-cyclone-heads-tow-114181_small.jpg)
Thousands flee as cyclone heads towards Bangladesh...
Tens of thousands of Bangladeshis left their coastal villages Sunday for concrete storm shelters further inland as the low-lying n...
![Brazil farmer who lost everything to floods recalls water's fury](https://www.journaldebruxelles.be/media/shared/articles/43/a1/88/Brazil-farmer-who-lost-everything-t-113197_small.jpg)
Brazil farmer who lost everything to floods recall...
It was 6:00 in the morning when Brazilian farmer Vernei Kunz heard the roar of water as the Forqueta river overflowed its banks an...
![Tornado leaves five dead in Iowa](https://www.journaldebruxelles.be/media/shared/articles/8f/66/70/Tornado-leaves-five-dead-in-Iowa-887116_small.jpg)
Tornado leaves five dead in Iowa
A tornado that ripped through the midwestern US state of Iowa killed five people and left dozens injured, officials said, with hom...
![Scientists say they can make zero-emission cement](https://www.journaldebruxelles.be/media/shared/articles/96/52/3d/Scientists-say-they-can-make-zero-e-461194_small.jpg)
Scientists say they can make zero-emission cement
Researchers on Wednesday said they were a step closer to solving one of the trickiest problems in tackling climate change -- how t...
![Volunteers race to save Mexico's howler monkeys in heat wave](https://www.journaldebruxelles.be/media/shared/articles/74/1a/43/Volunteers-race-to-save-Mexico-s-ho-613168_small.jpg)
Volunteers race to save Mexico's howler monkeys in...
Volunteers are rushing to hoist food and water up into trees in sweltering southern Mexico, but help came too late for the howler...
![Embryo activist: baby's lawsuit takes on S. Korea climate inaction](https://www.journaldebruxelles.be/media/shared/articles/60/13/ac/Embryo-activist--baby-s-lawsuit-tak-717012_small.jpg)
Embryo activist: baby's lawsuit takes on S. Korea...
When he was a 20-week-old embryo -- before he even had a real name -- Choi Hee-woo became one of the world's youngest-ever plainti...
![Half of mangrove ecosystems at risk: conservationists](https://www.journaldebruxelles.be/media/shared/articles/7b/84/f8/Half-of-mangrove-ecosystems-at-risk-113411_small.jpg)
Half of mangrove ecosystems at risk: conservationi...
Half of the world's mangrove ecosystems are at risk of collapse due to climate change, deforestation and pollution, according to a...
![Hazardous weather sparks chaos and rider anger at Giro 16th stage](https://www.journaldebruxelles.be/media/shared/articles/ba/9a/13/Hazardous-weather-sparks-chaos-and--112673_small.jpg)
Hazardous weather sparks chaos and rider anger at...
The Giro d'Italia's 16th stage was twice shortened due to hazardous weather conditions, including heavy snowfall, on Tuesday after...
![Hazardous weather causes Giro 16th stage to be shortened](https://www.journaldebruxelles.be/media/shared/articles/ba/9a/13/Hazardous-weather-causes-Giro-16th--377102_small.jpg)
Hazardous weather causes Giro 16th stage to be sho...
The Giro d'Italia's 16th stage was shortened due to hazardous weather conditions, including heavy snowfall, on Tuesday after rider...
![Canadian oil city lifts wildfire evacuation orders](https://www.journaldebruxelles.be/media/shared/articles/04/84/98/Canadian-oil-city-lifts-wildfire-ev-474176_small.jpg)
Canadian oil city lifts wildfire evacuation orders
Residents forced to flee wildfires threatening a Canadian oil-producing hub were allowed to return home Saturday after evacuation...
![US plans to end leasing in its largest coal-producing region](https://www.journaldebruxelles.be/media/shared/articles/b5/62/43/US-plans-to-end-leasing-in-its-larg-005019_small.jpg)
US plans to end leasing in its largest coal-produc...
President Joe Biden's government on Thursday announced a plan to end coal leases in the Powder River Basin, the nation's largest c...
![Global coral bleaching event expanding to new countries: scientists](https://www.journaldebruxelles.be/media/shared/articles/59/5d/03/Global-coral-bleaching-event-expand-189813_small.jpg)
Global coral bleaching event expanding to new coun...
The massive coral bleaching episode signaled by US authorities last month is expanding and deepening in reefs around the globe, sc...
![Brazil's Porto Alegre: a flood disaster waiting to happen](https://www.journaldebruxelles.be/media/shared/articles/e4/95/e9/Brazil-s-Porto-Alegre--a-flood-disa-733781_small.jpg)
Brazil's Porto Alegre: a flood disaster waiting to...
Porto Alegre, the Brazilian metropolis left submerged after torrential rains, had been lulled into a "false sense" of security by...
![Green policies can be vote winners, London mayor says](https://www.journaldebruxelles.be/media/shared/articles/93/g0/95/Green-policies-can-be-vote-winners--219632_small.jpg)
Green policies can be vote winners, London mayor s...
Green policies can win votes, London Mayor Sadiq Khan said Thursday, after winning a record third term despite the war he has wage...
![Parts of Canadian city in oil sands region evacuated as wildfire draws near](https://www.journaldebruxelles.be/media/shared/articles/04/84/98/Parts-of-Canadian-city-in-oil-sands-711659_small.jpg)
Parts of Canadian city in oil sands region evacuat...
Four neighborhoods of Fort McMurray, a city in Canada's major oil-producing region, were ordered evacuated Tuesday as an out of co...
![Summer 2023 was the hottest in 2,000 years: study](https://www.journaldebruxelles.be/media/shared/articles/33/f4/ae/Summer-2023-was-the-hottest-in-2-00-113053_small.jpg)
Summer 2023 was the hottest in 2,000 years: study
Last year's northern hemisphere summer was the hottest in 2,000 years, according to a new study published on Tuesday.
![Brazil's flooded south paralyzed as rivers swell, again](https://www.journaldebruxelles.be/media/shared/articles/ab/1d/a2/Brazil-s-flooded-south-paralyzed-as-623355_small.jpg)
Brazil's flooded south paralyzed as rivers swell,...
Rivers in south Brazil rose anew Monday as flood rescue efforts intensified and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva conceded autho...
Twelve dead, 60 injured in India billboard collaps...
Twelve people were killed and at least 60 injured after a billboard collapsed during a fierce storm in India's financial capital M...
![Environmental protests stop play at two Rome Open games](https://www.journaldebruxelles.be/media/shared/articles/23/ef/0e/Environmental-protests-stop-play-at-182701_small.jpg)
Environmental protests stop play at two Rome Open...
Environmental protestors stopped play at two matches at the Rome Open tennis tournament on Monday after invading courts in the Ita...
![Chinese firms exit Romania solar tender after EU probe](https://www.journaldebruxelles.be/media/shared/articles/ab/88/d7/Chinese-firms-exit-Romania-solar-te-281861_small.jpg)
Chinese firms exit Romania solar tender after EU p...
Two Chinese-owned solar panel manufacturers have withdrawn from a public procurement tender in Romania after the EU launched an an...
![Loss and hope: US park rangers' climate crisis fight](https://www.journaldebruxelles.be/media/shared/articles/c8/ea/a3/Loss-and-hope--US-park-rangers--cli-415046_small.jpg)
Loss and hope: US park rangers' climate crisis fig...
American biologist Laura Brennan describes the coin-sized Karner blue butterfly as "very delicate and graceful" with a "lovely blu...
![Rivers rise again as rain batters flood-hit south Brazil](https://www.journaldebruxelles.be/media/shared/articles/48/d8/80/Rivers-rise-again-as-rain-batters-f-133233_small.jpg)
Rivers rise again as rain batters flood-hit south...
River levels were rising again Sunday as strong rains lashed waterlogged southern Brazil, where flooding has killed more than 140...
![Flash floods kill 62 in one day in north Afghanistan](https://www.journaldebruxelles.be/media/shared/articles/93/74/b0/Flash-floods-kill-62-in-one-day-in--665151_small.jpg)
Flash floods kill 62 in one day in north Afghanist...
The toll from deadly flash flooding that ripped through northern Afghanistan on Friday rose to 62 people, mainly women and childre...
![Flash floods kill 50 in one day in north Afghanistan](https://www.journaldebruxelles.be/media/shared/articles/93/74/b0/Flash-floods-kill-50-in-one-day-in--555176_small.jpg)
Flash floods kill 50 in one day in north Afghanist...
At least 50 people, mainly women and children, were killed Friday in flash flooding that ripped through Afghanistan's Baghlan prov...
![Envious shamans and pollution: Diverse threats to Ecuadoran Amazon](https://www.journaldebruxelles.be/media/shared/articles/93/ed/25/Envious-shamans-and-pollution--Dive-151317_small.jpg)
Envious shamans and pollution: Diverse threats to...
When fish numbers diminished in the Ecuadoran Amazon, the Siona Indigenous people blamed envious, rival shamans for blocking the a...
![Judge tosses California children's pollution suit against US govt](https://www.journaldebruxelles.be/media/shared/articles/69/94/9e/Judge-tosses-California-children-s--372771_small.jpg)
Judge tosses California children's pollution suit...
A federal lawsuit brought by a group of California children who claimed the US government was harming them by failing to clamp dow...
![Famed Thai holiday isles suffer water shortages after heatwave](https://www.journaldebruxelles.be/media/shared/articles/28/81/40/Famed-Thai-holiday-isles-suffer-wat-574412_small.jpg)
Famed Thai holiday isles suffer water shortages af...
The dazzling Thai holiday islands made famous by Hollywood film "The Beach" are facing a severe water shortage following a blister...
![2023 'year of record climatic hazards' in Latin America: UN](https://www.journaldebruxelles.be/media/shared/articles/47/80/ae/2023--year-of-record-climatic-hazar-916222_small.jpg)
2023 'year of record climatic hazards' in Latin Am...
Latin America and the Caribbean had their warmest year on record in 2023 as a "double-whammy" of El Nino and climate change caused...
![April temperatures in Indonesia hottest for more than four decades](https://www.journaldebruxelles.be/media/shared/articles/f1/e7/0d/April-temperatures-in-Indonesia-hot-121222_small.jpg)
April temperatures in Indonesia hottest for more t...
Indonesia experienced its hottest April in more than four decades, two senior weather agency officials said Wednesday, as the regi...
![Ritacuba Blanco: death of a Colombian glacier](https://www.journaldebruxelles.be/media/shared/articles/3c/69/42/Ritacuba-Blanco--death-of-a-Colombi-139171_small.jpg)
Ritacuba Blanco: death of a Colombian glacier
Just a few months ago, the Colombian mountain peak of Ritacuba Blanco was covered in an unbroken layer of white ice and snow, just...
![No let up yet for flood-battered south Brazil](https://www.journaldebruxelles.be/media/shared/articles/a4/1f/g0/No-let-up-yet-for-flood-battered-so-117915_small.jpg)
No let up yet for flood-battered south Brazil
The rains may have abated, but floodwaters on Monday continued their assault on southern Brazil, with hundreds of municipalities i...
![Market-based schemes not reducing deforestation, poverty: report](https://www.journaldebruxelles.be/media/shared/articles/1b/db/1f/Market-based-schemes-not-reducing-d-143971_small.jpg)
Market-based schemes not reducing deforestation, p...
Market-based approaches to forest conservation like carbon offsets and deforestation-free certification schemes have largely faile...