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Norwegian eyeing climbing record awaits Chinese pe...
Norwegian climber Kristin Harila is only three peaks away from achieving the lung-busting feat of scaling the world's 14 highest m...
![Greenhouse gas, sea levels at record in 2021: US agency](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/d2/7b/65/Greenhouse-gas--sea-levels-at-recor-469552_small.jpg)
Greenhouse gas, sea levels at record in 2021: US a...
Earth's concentration of greenhouse gases and sea levels hit new highs in 2021, a US government report said Wednesday, showing tha...
![Chinese electric carmaker BYD plummets after Buffett sale](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/de/67/e3/Chinese-electric-carmaker-BYD-plumm-411614_small.jpg)
Chinese electric carmaker BYD plummets after Buffe...
Shares in Chinese electric carmaker BYD plunged on Wednesday after its largest backer, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, reduce...
![Cambodian psychiatrist helping genocide survivors wins 'Asia's Nobel Prize'](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/5d/a3/90/Cambodian-psychiatrist-helping-geno-636619_small.jpg)
Cambodian psychiatrist helping genocide survivors...
A Cambodian psychiatrist treating victims of the Khmer Rouge and a French environmentalist cleaning up Indonesian rivers were amon...
Pakistan floods 'worst in country's history', aid...
Aid efforts ramped up across flooded Pakistan on Tuesday to help tens of millions of people affected by relentless monsoon rains t...
![UN raises alarm on Red Sea oil tanker 'time-bomb'](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/c9/82/fe/UN-raises-alarm-on-Red-Sea-oil-tank-501571_small.jpg)
UN raises alarm on Red Sea oil tanker 'time-bomb'
The UN appealed Tuesday for the last $14 million needed to try and prevent a stricken oil tanker from triggering a disaster off Ye...
![Fossil fuels causing cost-of-living crisis: climate expert](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/e9/8a/ed/Fossil-fuels-causing-cost-of-living-338613_small.jpg)
Fossil fuels causing cost-of-living crisis: climat...
The cost-of-living crisis pushing millions of people towards poverty in Europe is driven by fossil fuels, according to a leading E...
!['Third' of Pakistan under water as flood aid efforts gather pace](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/0d/94/e2/-Third--of-Pakistan-under-water-as--211431_small.jpg)
'Third' of Pakistan under water as flood aid effor...
Aid efforts ramped up across flooded Pakistan on Tuesday to help tens of millions of people affected by relentless monsoon rains t...
![Ecuador investigates killing of four Galapagois giant tortoises](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/8f/86/95/Ecuador-investigates-killing-of-fou-264616_small.jpg)
Ecuador investigates killing of four Galapagois gi...
Prosecutors in Ecuador on Monday announced an investigation into the alleged hunting and killing of four giant tortoises on the Ga...
![Plenty of roadblocks for automakers seeking EV success](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/49/31/4d/Plenty-of-roadblocks-for-automakers-696614_small.jpg)
Plenty of roadblocks for automakers seeking EV suc...
The world's top automakers -- motivated either by governmental regulations or pure profit -- have made a sharp turn away from foss...
![Dead fish and depression on the banks of the Oder](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/7b/02/c0/Dead-fish-and-depression-on-the-ban-641748_small.jpg)
Dead fish and depression on the banks of the Oder
Appearing tired and stressed, Piotr Wloch looks out dejectedly at his empty tourist boats on the Oder river after an environmental...
![Pipeline operator to pay $13m over California coast leak](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/ec/60/27/Pipeline-operator-to-pay--13m-over--515651_small.jpg)
Pipeline operator to pay $13m over California coas...
The operators of a pipeline that leaked crude oil onto California beaches has agreed to plead guilty to environmental pollution ch...
![Dry summer puts squeeze on French Alps cheese](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/d5/43/09/Dry-summer-puts-squeeze-on-French-A-168385_small.jpg)
Dry summer puts squeeze on French Alps cheese
France's record heat and drought have not spared the majestic pastures under the snow-capped Alps, where cows are struggling to fi...
UK cost-of-living crisis worsens as energy price c...
Britain announced Friday a vast 80-percent hike in electricity and gas bills, in a dramatic worsening of the cost-of-living crisis...
![Lights out? Swiss brace for looming power shortages](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/4f/a8/d0/Lights-out--Swiss-brace-for-looming-149494_small.jpg)
Lights out? Swiss brace for looming power shortage...
Switzerland is among the world's wealthiest countries, but its reliance on Russian gas and French nuclear power -- both in short s...
![UN high-seas biodiversity treaty struggles to leave port](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/62/7e/c0/UN-high-seas-biodiversity-treaty-st-349616_small.jpg)
UN high-seas biodiversity treaty struggles to leav...
A two-week negotiating session on a treaty to protect the high seas wraps up Friday, with UN observers holding their breath that t...
![California says new cars must be zero emission by 2035](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/87/53/59/California-says-new-cars-must-be-ze-646606_small.jpg)
California says new cars must be zero emission by...
California ruled Thursday that all new cars sold in America's most populous state must be zero emission from 2035, in what was bil...
![Brazil records worst day for Amazon fires in 15 years](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/de/66/dc/Brazil-records-worst-day-for-Amazon-316644_small.jpg)
Brazil records worst day for Amazon fires in 15 ye...
The number of forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon hit a nearly 15-year high this week, according to official figures that provide...
![California set to ban fossil fuel cars by 2035](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/2e/12/bf/California-set-to-ban-fossil-fuel-c-773666_small.jpg)
California set to ban fossil fuel cars by 2035
All new cars sold in California by 2035 will have to be zero emission under plans set to be adopted by the state this week, as the...
![Boiling heat and no water: taps run dry in southern Iraq](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/13/70/41/Boiling-heat-and-no-water--taps-run-215616_small.jpg)
Boiling heat and no water: taps run dry in souther...
Younes Ajil turns on the tap in his home but nothing comes out: dozens of villages are without running water in drought-hit Iraq,...
![Auld reekie: Edinburgh bin strike leaves a bad smell](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/9c/f1/95/Auld-reekie--Edinburgh-bin-strike-l-576417_small.jpg)
Auld reekie: Edinburgh bin strike leaves a bad sme...
Trash overflowed from bins on the streets of Edinburgh on Tuesday as a strike by council workers hit the city during its internati...
![Cyprus says major gas find could boost European supplies](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/ed/9b/da/Cyprus-says-major-gas-find-could-bo-641612_small.jpg)
Cyprus says major gas find could boost European su...
A new gas discovery off Cyprus could speed up exploitation of untapped resources and help secure supplies to Europe, Cypriot Energ...
![After 'doomsday' floods, Sudanese fear worse to come](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/21/e3/fb/After--doomsday--floods--Sudanese-f-203300_small.jpg)
After 'doomsday' floods, Sudanese fear worse to co...
In the Sudanese village of Makaylab, Mohamed Tigani picked through the pile of rubble that was once his mud-brick home, after torr...
![Swiss glaciers shrink in half since 1931: study](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/6c/10/00/Swiss-glaciers-shrink-in-half-since-361336_small.jpg)
Swiss glaciers shrink in half since 1931: study
Swiss glaciers have shed half their volume since 1931, Swiss researchers said Monday, following the first reconstruction of the co...
!['We are divided': lake upends life for tiny Kenyan tribe](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/50/de/72/-We-are-divided---lake-upends-life--131608_small.jpg)
'We are divided': lake upends life for tiny Kenyan...
At first light, children from one of Kenya's smallest and most isolated tribes put on life jackets and board a fishing boat for th...
Algeria fires mostly contained but more residents...
Wildfires which killed at least 38 people across northern Algeria have been largely contained, firefighters said Friday, but new b...
![Greenland treads softly on tourism as icebergs melt](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/77/d2/00/Greenland-treads-softly-on-tourism--076748_small.jpg)
Greenland treads softly on tourism as icebergs mel...
As tourists flock to Greenland to take in its breathtaking icebergs and natural beauty, authorities are mulling ways to control cr...
![Power shift for Mumbai's double-decker buses](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/2e/ab/5e/Power-shift-for-Mumbai-s-double-dec-016866_small.jpg)
Power shift for Mumbai's double-decker buses
India's entertainment capital is expanding its fleet of London-style red double-decker buses nearly a century after they made thei...
!['Tornado of fire': Algeria forest blazes kill 38](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/ea/01/ee/-Tornado-of-fire---Algeria-forest-b-450665_small.jpg)
'Tornado of fire': Algeria forest blazes kill 38
Algerian firefighters battled Thursday to rein in forest fires that have ravaged large parts of the drought-hit North African coun...
![World could save 700 mn tonnes of CO2 if people cycled more, study shows](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/0b/19/f9/World-could-save-700-mn-tonnes-of-C-655366_small.jpg)
World could save 700 mn tonnes of CO2 if people cy...
The world would save nearly 700 million tonnes of carbon pollution each year -- more than Canada's annual emissions -- if every pe...
![Cyprus row over threat to dig up protected turtle nests](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/90/9e/6f/Cyprus-row-over-threat-to-dig-up-pr-801616_small.jpg)
Cyprus row over threat to dig up protected turtle...
A row has erupted in Cyprus after a community leader threatened to dig up the nests of protected turtles because his village is mi...
Wildfires in Portugal, Spain contained
Massive wildfires in Portugal and Spain were largely under control Thursday after forcing thousands from their homes and destroyin...