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Mathieu Van der Poel sprinted to his third Tour de France stage win on Sunday, beating Tobias Johannessen and Tom Pidcock after race officials shortened the route due to extreme heat. The Dutch classics specialist showed once again that his power translates far beyond the cobbled spring races.
A British couple have returned to the Almerian village of Bedar after surviving a wildfire that killed at least 13 people, five believed to be Britons. The blaze scorched 2,400 hectares and left a tight-knit expat community shattered.
Renewed drone and missile strikes on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz sent oil prices surging past $97 a barrel Wednesday and triggered an urgent IMO call for de-escalation. The attacks are reigniting fears of a broader US-Iran war in one of the world’s most critical energy corridors.
Record temperatures are exposing a painful truth: most of our cities and buildings were never designed to handle extreme heat. The challenge of heatwave adaptation is enormous — and the clock is ticking.
Krithi Karanth was just one year old when her father first took her into the Indian jungle. Now she leads the Centre for Wildlife Studies and is one of the world’s foremost conservation biologists.
An oil tanker was struck by an “unknown projectile” Monday off Oman’s coast near the Strait of Hormuz, the British maritime agency UKMTO confirmed. The incident has raised fresh fears over the safety of one of the world’s most critical shipping lanes.
The Tour de France will push ahead with an “adapted” stage 3 Monday after wildfires burned nearly 1,500 hectares near the Pyrenees. The fires are part of a wider crisis scorching southern Europe amid record heat.
The WMO warned Friday that strengthening El Niño conditions are dramatically raising the risk of extreme weather events worldwide. Scientists give a 90% probability the event will intensify through early 2024.
More than 85 percent of EU bathing sites earned an “excellent” rating in 2024, but climate change and agricultural runoff are putting pressure on progress. Here’s what the latest report found.
Cape Verde held Spain to a shock 0-0 draw and the capital Praia erupted in scenes residents say they’ve never witnessed before. “It’s the greatest feeling ever,” one fan told the BBC.
