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    <title>rbtfl — Weather &amp; Seasons</title>
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    <description>Monsoon, El Niño, forecasts — the weather that sets harvests and demand.</description>
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      <title>India's Assam monsoon floods kill 98 people and displace 1.68 lakh across 15 districts as state government announces relief</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Monsoon flooding in India's northeastern Assam state had killed 98 people by August 8, up from 87 on August 4, with the affected population rising to 1.68 lakh people (about 168,000) across 15 districts; Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced a fresh relief package and said damage assessments would begin soon, with 43,000 families already receiving financial assistance from the state government [disrupted]</description>
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      <title>Typhoon Dolphin injures five in Japan's Okinawa and tracks toward East China coast, with Beijing issuing heavy rain warnings</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Typhoon Dolphin re-intensified while passing northwest Okinawa on August 7, injuring five people and knocking out power to nearly 17,000 households, before China's meteorological service forecast landfall along the East China coast between Sunday and Monday; Beijing's six districts issued heavy rainfall alerts as the outer bands drenched the capital [active]</description>
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      <title>Germany's Rhine hits drought low as ship traffic thins; transport minister eyes Sunday truck-driving ban waiver</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/germany-rhein-niedrigwasser-0806</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Low water on Germany's Rhine is threatening to reduce river cargo to a trickle, sending riverboat freight prices higher and prompting Germany's transport minister to consider lifting the Sunday truck-driving ban to reroute freight by road; the Japan Times reported shallow water is imposing tighter load limits and applying pressure on Germany's government to act; Handelsblatt noted the chemical industry is warning of production cutbacks [worsening]</description>
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      <title>Earth tremor strikes Abuja; Nigeria activates seismic monitoring and urges calm</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>An earth tremor shook parts of Abuja, Nigeria's Federal Capital Territory, on August 6; The Cable reported Nigeria's federal government activated enhanced seismic monitoring; Minister Dele Alake called for calm and ordered hourly updates on seismic activity [active]</description>
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      <title>Europe's August heatwave forces Italy to issue its highest health alerts for all major cities and Hungary to impose emergency power-saving measures</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/europe-italy-hungary-heat-0806</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Italy placed all its major cities under its highest-tier health alert on August 6 as another heat episode struck Europe, while Hungary introduced emergency energy-saving measures as soaring temperatures strained electricity supplies; the Pakistani Tribune reports France and Spain have been hardest hit; the Danube's record-low water levels are compounding the strain on power and transport across central Europe [worsening]</description>
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      <title>British Columbia's Bradley Creek wildfire destroys roughly 230 homes near Vernon, including 30 on Okanagan Indian Band reserve; Pear Lake fire also burns 1,246 sq km near Clinton</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/bc-wildfire-bradley-creek-0805</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The Bradley Creek wildfire, burning northwest of Vernon, British Columbia along Westside Road, tore through the Okanagan Indian Band community during powerful winds and has destroyed an estimated 230 homes, including 30 on reserve land; a second major fire, Pear Lake near Clinton, has burned 1,246 square kilometres and destroyed structures on about 120 properties; British Columbia's wildfire service warned of an 'explosive and extremely dangerous situation' with dry heat and low humidity forecast for the southern interior [worsening]</description>
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      <title>Guatemala's Fuego volcano escalates to red alert in three departments; 1,421 people evacuated as critical explosive phase begins</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/guatemala-fuego-0804</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Guatemala's Fuego volcano escalated to a red alert across three departments on August 4, with CONRED and INSIVUMEH declaring a critical explosive phase; 1,421 people were evacuated from 18 communities as pyroclastic flows descended six ravines and cut National Route 14; Las Lajas ravine was identified as the highest-risk area [active]</description>
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      <title>Polar blast from Antarctica brings rare low-level snow across New Zealand, closing roads, schools, and Cook Strait ferries</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A powerful Antarctic cold front swept north across New Zealand on August 3-4, bringing snow to sea level in Dunedin and Christchurch, closing state highways, shutting schools in multiple regions, suspending Cook Strait ferry sailings, and prompting police to warn of treacherous ice on roads; Wellington received snow for the first time in years; NZTA warned the main hazard was still ahead as the blast moved north toward Auckland [active]</description>
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      <title>Landslide kills 14 at Tsadkane Debre Metmik Monastery in Ethiopia's Amhara region</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A slope failure struck Tsadkane Debre Metmik Saint Mary Monastery in Ethiopia's Amhara region at around 07:00 local time on August 3, killing at least 14 people who had gathered for a religious ritual, according to Ethiopian state media; search and rescue teams were continuing operations on August 4 with local reports suggesting additional victims remained under debris. [active]</description>
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      <title>India's Assam monsoon floods kill 87 people in 2026, with 1.28 lakh people still displaced across seven districts</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/india-assam-floods-0804</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Monsoon flooding in India's northeastern Assam state had killed 87 people by August 4, with 1.28 lakh people (about 128,000) affected across seven districts, 14,230 hectares of cropland inundated, and more than 11,000 sheltering in relief camps; Down to Earth reported the 2026 flood season is worse than recent years because of worsening riverbank erosion [disrupted]</description>
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      <title>EU weighs emergency electricity talks after Hungary's Paks nuclear plant goes dark; Orbán-era failure to prepare revealed</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/hungary-eu-electricity-0803</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The European Commission said on August 3 it stood ready to convene emergency electricity coordination talks after Hungary's Paks Nuclear Power Plant stopped generating, removing nearly half of Hungary's total electricity capacity; in a separate development, Hungarian independent media published a recording in which a former Fidesz minister admitted the Orbán government had been warned of severe water shortages and took no preparatory action [worsening]</description>
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      <title>Two firefighting helicopters collide above Greece's Psatha wildfire, killing Danish pilot and Greek officer</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Two Bell-type helicopters collided in mid-air while battling the Psatha wildfire near Athens on August 2; a Danish pilot and a Greek liaison officer died, while a British pilot and a Greek coordinator on the second aircraft sustained minor injuries; the helicopters had taken off from Elefsina military airbase, and accident investigators said the flight formation broke apart before the collision [active]</description>
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      <title>Germany's Rhine River hits record low water levels, cutting freight capacity to a fifth</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/rhine-record-low-0802</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Europe's summer drought drove the Rhine to its lowest level on record at Duisburg, Düsseldorf and Cologne by August 2, 2026; cargo ships on Germany's busiest inland waterway were forced to carry about a fifth of their normal load; conditions are comparable to the 2018 Rhine drought that caused material disruptions to Germany's chemical and manufacturing supply chains [worsening]</description>
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      <title>South Korea records its highest temperature ever, 42.5°C in Yangsan, as heatwave triggers emergency alerts across more than 20 cities</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/korea-heatwave-0802</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>South Korea's Korea Meteorological Administration confirmed on August 2 that Yangsan in South Gyeongsang Province reached 42.5°C (108.5°F), the highest temperature recorded since national weather observations began; the government activated an emergency response and more than 20 localities issued emergency heat alerts; the event was described as the country's first extreme heatwave of its kind in 122 years [active]</description>
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      <title>Typhoon Dolphin strengthens toward Japan's Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan with sea warnings expected by Friday</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/typhoon-dolphin-0803</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Japan's Meteorological Agency classified Typhoon Dolphin as a very strong typhoon on August 3, tracking west-northwest from waters near Minamitorishima; Taiwan's Central Weather Administration said a sea warning could be issued as early as Friday afternoon if the storm holds its westward track toward the Ryukyu Islands [active]</description>
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      <title>Heat dome from Arizona to Montana brings record US temperatures and heightened wildfire risk this weekend</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/us-western-heatwave-0802</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A heat dome spanning from Arizona to Montana drove temperatures near record highs across large parts of the US western states on August 1-2, heightening wildfire risk in already dry or burning areas; US National Weather Service meteorologists described the event as relatively short-lived [active]</description>
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      <title>Tropical Depression Luis enters the Philippines, possible landfall in Northern Luzon on August 3</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/philippines-typhoon-luis-0801</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A low-pressure area inside the Philippine Area of Responsibility developed into Tropical Depression Luis on August 1, the Philippines' twelfth tropical cyclone of 2026; PAGASA said Luis could intensify into a tropical storm and make landfall in Northern Luzon on the afternoon or evening of August 3, though the track remained highly uncertain; the system was bringing heavy rain to Luzon and enhancing the southwest monsoon [active]</description>
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      <title>India's Gujarat floods kill four, evacuate 16,500; red alert across five districts as rivers swell and dams release</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Heavy monsoon rains flooded large parts of India's Gujarat state by August 1, killing at least four people, displacing more than 16,500, and triggering NDRF rescues in Surat, Vadodara, and Morbi; three people died by electrocution in Navsari; authorities closed Ahmedabad's lakefront gardens and issued red alerts in five districts [worsening]</description>
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      <title>Flash floods hit Pakistan's Khyber district as NDMA issues three-day nationwide alert</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/pakistan-khyber-floods-0801</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Torrential rains triggered flash floods across Khyber district on August 1, damaging roads, homes and public infrastructure; Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority issued a three-day flood alert covering wider areas [worsening]</description>
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      <title>Hungary's Paks nuclear plant nears first-ever full stop as penultimate reactor goes offline in Danube drought</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Prime Minister Peter Magyar confirmed on the night of August 1 that Hungary's Paks Nuclear Power Plant would shut down completely on Sunday; the penultimate of four reactor units was disconnected at 1:30am Sunday, leaving only one unit running; earlier on August 1, two units had already shut down due to record-low Danube water levels, dropping Paks to about 25% of its 2,000 MW capacity; a full stop would be the first in Paks's 44-year history and analysts warned of a regional electricity price surge across Central Europe [worsening]</description>
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      <title>Romania declares national energy alert for August as Danube drought threatens Cernavoda nuclear plant shutdown within days</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/romania-danube-alert-0801</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Romania's government declared a national state of energy alert for the whole of August on July 31 after the Danube River fell to its lowest level in recorded history, with Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan warning that Romania risks losing 20% of its electricity production if the Cernavoda nuclear plant's second reactor also shuts down; the Danube water level in the Cernavoda area was falling by 2 to 3 centimetres per day, and Romanian water authorities said the plant could function at current limits for only another four to five days. [worsening]</description>
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      <title>Floods strike North Sumatra's Simalungun district as dry season intensifies across much of Indonesia</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Heavy rain flooded multiple areas in North Sumatra over July 31 to August 1, with the Sikkam river bursting its banks in Simalungun district, trapping six residents on rooftops and cutting the Trans-Sumatra Highway linking Medan to Siantar; the Jakarta Post and Malaysia's The Star noted the flooding is occurring as Indonesia's dry season intensifies across most of the archipelago, pointing to increasingly uneven weather patterns [disrupted]</description>
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      <title>Greece battles wildfires near Athens and on Crete as strong winds hamper firefighting on multiple fronts</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/greece-wildfire-0731</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Greece battled active wildfires on July 31 on multiple fronts, including the outskirts of Athens, the Viotia region in central Greece, and the island of Crete; strong winds forced partial evacuations west of Athens and grounded aerial assets, as authorities fought consecutive days of blazes while France and Spain brought their own fires under control [active]</description>
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      <title>Broad Peak avalanche in Pakistan's Karakoram kills all 10 climbers, including Nirmal Purja, as Elite Exped confirms no survivors</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>All 10 members of a mountaineering expedition on Pakistan's Broad Peak were confirmed dead by August 2, including British-Nepali climber Nirmal 'Nims' Purja and Oman's Nadhira Al Harthy; Purja's company Elite Exped confirmed the deaths following a July 30 avalanche at 8,047 metres, and Nepal's prime minister paid condolences as search operations concluded [active]</description>
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      <title>Hungary shuts down a reactor at Paks Nuclear Power Plant as the Danube reaches record-low water levels in drought</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Hungary began shutting down Unit 3 at the Paks Nuclear Power Plant on July 29 after the Danube fell to record-low water levels, cutting the plant's output to about 60 percent of capacity; the government said even a complete Paks shutdown would not endanger household electricity supply, but began compiling a list of industrial consumers whose power and water use could be restricted; Romania's Cernavoda nuclear plant also took a reactor offline; EU Copernicus satellite images showed the Danube's water level visually narrowed from the same period a year before [worsening]</description>
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      <title>Wildfire four times the size of Paris burns near France's Bordeaux, killing two firefighters as heatwave threatens to intensify it</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>An uncontained mega-fire in southwestern France's Gironde region has grown to four times the size of Paris and killed two firefighters; a new heatwave moving across southern Europe threatened on July 29 to reignite the blaze and spread it further, as France and Spain struggled simultaneously with multiple active fires [improving]</description>
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      <title>7.1-magnitude earthquake hits Japan's Kumamoto prefecture, mall collapses and tsunami alert issued</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A magnitude-7.1 earthquake struck Kumamoto on Japan's Kyushu island at 4:27pm local time on July 28, reaching shindo 7, the highest level on Japan's intensity scale; at least 50 people were taken to hospital, the Aeon Mall Kumamoto collapsed with 20-30 people unaccounted for, and the Japan Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami advisory for the Ariake Sea and Yatsushiro Sea coasts before lifting it [worsening]</description>
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      <title>Spain's wildfires surpass 173,000 hectares burned in 2026, six times the full-year total for 2025, as fires near Madrid and in Ávila continue</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Spain's wildfires have burned more than 173,000 hectares in 2026, six times the total area burned across all of 2025, with active fronts in the Madrid region, Ávila province, Toledo and eastern Valencia; firefighters reported progress after a 'positive night' on July 28, but tens of thousands of evacuees remain displaced [active]</description>
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      <title>Hurricane Genevieve briefly reaches Category 5, the first in the Eastern Pacific since 2024, bringing life-threatening surf to Mexico's Baja California coast</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/hurricane-genevieve-0728</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Hurricane Genevieve reached Category 5 strength in the Eastern Pacific on July 27 through explosive rapid intensification, becoming the first Category 5 in the basin since Hurricane Kristy in 2024; it has since weakened to Category 4 and is not forecast to make landfall, but is generating life-threatening surf along Mexico's Baja California Pacific coast and hazardous marine conditions offshore [active]</description>
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      <title>Typhoon Noul makes landfall in southern China's Guangdong, 700,000 evacuated</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Typhoon Noul, China's strongest storm of 2026, struck Huizhou in Guangdong province early Sunday, flooding streets, blocking roads, cutting power, and triggering mass evacuations; the storm has since weakened to a tropical storm as it moves inland [active]</description>
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      <title>Chile's SENAPRED declares Red Alerts across Maule, Ñuble and Biobío as winter storm drives river flooding</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Chile's national emergency agency SENAPRED declared Red Alerts for at least 11 communes across three central regions on July 26-27 as intense winter rainfall combined with high-altitude snowmelt pushed the Perquilauquén, Chillán and Niblinto rivers above their red hydrometric thresholds; Chile's meteorological service forecast three consecutive weather systems bringing up to five more days of rain to the Santiago metropolitan area [worsening]</description>
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      <title>Japan's Typhoon 13 Dolphin forms in central Pacific, may hit Japan as super typhoon around the Obon holiday</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Japan's Meteorological Agency designated Tropical Storm Dolphin as Typhoon 13 at 15:00 JST July 27, at 13.3°N 176.9°E; forecasters expect it to reach violent super-typhoon intensity by August 1 and diverge on whether it will approach Japan's main islands during the Obon travel period in mid-August [worsening]</description>
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      <title>New Zealand records coldest temperatures of 2026 as cold snap brings -7°C to South Island and widespread frosts across North Island</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>New Zealand's [[MetService]] recorded the coldest temperatures of the year across both islands on July 27, with parts of the South Island reaching -7°C; forecasters said the cold snap would linger into a second morning, and many centres across the North Island recorded their coldest start to a day so far in 2026 [resolved]</description>
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      <title>Spain declares national emergency over wildfires near Madrid and Ávila as southern Europe burns</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Spain's government declared a national emergency on the night of July 23-24 after multiple wildfires burned out of control in the Madrid region and the province of Ávila, forcing the evacuation of around 10,000 people; France simultaneously ordered the total evacuation of the Cap Ferret peninsula in the Gironde and activated the EU's civil protection mechanism as a separate blaze swept the Atlantic coast west of Bordeaux [worsening]</description>
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      <title>World Bank estimates Venezuela's June 2026 twin earthquakes caused US$19.6 billion in damage, 18% of GDP; rebuilding could cost US$50 billion</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A World Bank damage assessment released on July 23, 2026 found Venezuela's June 2026 twin earthquakes caused US$19.6 billion in physical damage to buildings and infrastructure, equivalent to 18% of gross domestic product; 47% of damage hit residential buildings; rebuilding could cost up to US$50 billion; the Norwegian Refugee Council reported only 39% of the humanitarian response is funded one month after the disaster [worsening]</description>
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      <title>France's Gironde wildfire near Bordeaux stabilised after 220,000 evacuated; Macron calls emergency 'most severe since World War II' as fourth heatwave approaches</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/france-wildfires-0724</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A wildfire in France's Gironde department that advanced to within 15 km of Bordeaux was declared stabilised on July 27 after more than 220,000 people were evacuated; President Emmanuel Macron convened a crisis cabinet meeting and France's army deployed 1,500 personnel and surveillance drones; by July 28, Macron called the combined wildfire and heatwave emergency the most severe situation France had faced since World War II, with 63,000 still evacuated near Madrid and a fourth heatwave of the summer approaching [worsening]</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Algeria was battling an unprecedented wave of forest fires across its northern regions as of July 23, with 1,550 fires recorded in 12 days and at least six people killed in a heatwave-driven surge; civil protection authorities described the fires as sixth-generation blazes of a scale not seen before in Algeria [worsening]</description>
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      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/typhoon-noul-guangdong-0724</link>
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      <description>China renewed an orange typhoon alert on July 24 and activated a Level-IV emergency response as Typhoon Noul tracked toward the Guangdong coast; Hong Kong issued a Typhoon Signal No. 1 at 8:40 p.m. local time and forecasters said a T3 signal was possible on Saturday as the storm expected to make landfall over the weekend [active]</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>At least 82 people died across northeastern India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan in heavy monsoon rains on July 23, with 43 of the deaths in India's Assam state alone, where more than 9 lakh (900,000) people are affected across multiple districts; rescue operations are ongoing as rivers including the Brahmaputra flow above danger levels [worsening]</description>
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      <description>Santé Publique France, France's national public health authority, reported 5,764 excess deaths during the country's heat wave from June 17 to July 2, 2026, as temperatures broke records; Fox News reported health officials described the episode as France's deadliest heat event since 2003 [active]</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>More than 10,857 people in Japan were transported by ambulance for heatstroke in the week of July 13-19, more than double the number for the same period in 2025, the country's fire and disaster management agency reported. Temperatures reached 40°C in six locations on July 23 as a heat dome settled over the country. [active]</description>
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      <description>Tropical Depression Kiyapo intensified into a tropical storm and made landfall in extreme Northern Luzon, the Philippines, in the early hours of July 24, 2026, PAGASA's 8 AM advisory confirmed; the storm crossed the 63 km/h sustained wind threshold after tracking northwestward over the Philippine Sea on July 23 with 14 provinces under Signal No. 1 [active]</description>
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      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/spain-sanchez-climate-emergency-0722</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/spain-sanchez-climate-emergency-0722</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez visited fire-hit Guadalajara on July 22, announced EUR 300 million for climate and fire response, and called on all parties to sign a 'State Pact' on climate emergency; 22 major fires have broken out in Spain in 2026, four times more than in all of 2025 [active]</description>
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      <title>Southern Europe wildfires kill three firefighters and force 20,000 to evacuate in France, Spain, and Italy on July 23</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Simultaneous wildfires across southern France, Spain, and Italy on July 23 killed three firefighters and forced at least 20,000 evacuations in France's Gironde region alone; a new fire near Bordeaux broke out as existing blazes burned in Spain and Italy, with Japan Times also reporting heat damage to Europe's grain harvest is the largest in decades [active]</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A wildfire in central Spain burned more than 32,000 hectares by July 22 in what firefighters describe as one of the largest blazes in recent Spanish history, as a fresh surge of heat of up to 44C was forecast across the Mediterranean region and France's Var department continued battling the separate fire that killed firefighters and forced hundreds of evacuations [active]</description>
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      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/france-gironde-bordeaux-wildfire-0727</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A wildfire in France's Gironde department advanced to within 15 km of Bordeaux by July 27, forcing 220,000 people to evacuate as French President Emmanuel Macron called a crisis cabinet meeting; coordinated blazes in France and Spain displaced more than 320,000 people total, with at least one person killed; the fire grew intense enough to generate its own lightning-spawning firestorms, and officials warned it may continue burning until November [worsening]</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Monsoon floods in India's northeastern Assam state killed 21 more people in the 24 hours to July 22, raising the total death toll to 31; relief and rescue operations are ongoing across 16 districts as major rivers including the Brahmaputra flow above danger levels in Upper Assam [disrupted]</description>
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      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/france-var-wildfire-0722</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A fast-moving wildfire in France's Var department on July 21-22 killed firefighters, destroyed 2,500 hectares and 10 homes, and forced hundreds of evacuations; the blaze was brought under control by July 22 as Spain's fires continued, part of a summer of back-to-back European heatwaves [stabilising]</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Pakistan's cumulative monsoon death toll since June 26 rose above 100 by July 27, with at least 107 people killed and 344 injured as heavy rains and flash floods hit Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; the toll was 72 as of July 22, when rising Indus and Chenab levels triggered evacuation orders; Punjab's monsoon season typically continues through September, and authorities warned further rainfall was expected through the week [worsening]</description>
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      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/chile-storm-catastrophe-0721</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Chilean President José Antonio Kast declared a state of catastrophe in the Coquimbo and Atacama regions on July 20-21 after a severe winter weather system killed at least ten people, destroyed more than 1,100 homes, left 100,000 people isolated by road closures, and cut power to 150,000 homes; the Army was deployed for rescue operations [worsening]</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Monsoon downpours over the weekend of July 18-19 killed at least 25 people across northern and northeastern India; in Assam state alone, rivers overflowed to submerge more than 600 villages and displace over 200,000 people [worsening]</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A tropical depression in the Gulf of Mexico strengthened into Tropical Storm Bertha on July 21, the second named storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season; the slow-moving storm was centered about 110 miles south of Panama City, Florida, and forecast to track toward southeast Louisiana [active]</description>
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      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/peru-quake-andes-0719</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A 5.5 magnitude earthquake struck Saturday night near Sicaya in Peru's Junin region, killing at least six people, injuring more than 30 and displacing around 300; adobe buildings and a local church collapsed, and Peru's civil defence institute said the number of missing remained unknown. [worsening]</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck the Pacific Ocean off Mexico's Chiapas state on July 17, shaking buildings across Guatemala and El Salvador and triggering a tsunami warning that authorities lifted within hours; no significant casualties or structural damage were reported [active]</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Canadian Armed Forces began airlifting all 600 residents of Fort Hope in northwestern Ontario on July 18 as intensifying wildfires brought the total area burned to 955 active fires; smoke drifted south across the US border, putting more than 100 million Americans under air quality alerts and prompting a Trump demand that Canada explain its forest management [ongoing]</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A Pacific disturbance located south-southwest of Acapulco had a 90 percent probability of becoming Tropical Storm Fausto by July 18, according to Mexico's national meteorological service; authorities placed Baja California Sur on watch as a second system, Elida, simultaneously gained strength offshore [active]</description>
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      <title>Chile storm kills four and knocks out power for 500,000 as red alert covers Valparaíso</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>An intense frontal weather system struck central and southern Chile on July 17-18, killing at least four people, isolating 2,500, cutting electricity to more than 500,000 homes, and prompting red alerts in the Coquimbo and Valparaíso regions; copper mines reduced output and the government tracked a potential July rainfall record [worsening]</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Violent overnight thunderstorms swept across France on July 17, killing two people and leaving around 53,000 households without electricity; the storms broke a prolonged heatwave and hit the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Nouvelle-Aquitaine regions hardest [active]</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Catastrophic flash flooding struck the Texas Hill Country on July 16 after repeated thunderstorms dropped up to 711 millimetres of rain in some areas; at least two people died, 230 were rescued, and local officials said the flooding was a once-in-a-generation event for the second consecutive year [active]</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Massive smoke plumes from more than 800 wildfires burning across Canada poured into the United States from July 13, bringing hazardous air quality to more than 120 million people across the Great Lakes region and northeastern US states, with AQI readings exceeding 1,000 in Marquette, Michigan; the smoke was forecast to persist through at least Saturday July 18 [worsening]</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Torrential rain dumped over 20 inches across parts of central Texas from July 14-17, triggering flash-flood emergencies along the Guadalupe and Pedernales rivers; US Governor Greg Abbott confirmed two deaths as water rescues and evacuations continued [active]</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A fast-moving wildfire in northeastern Spain's Aragon region swept across around 7,600 hectares and forced five villages to evacuate on July 16; authorities said the blaze would take days to control, stretching Spain's firefighting resources a week after a fire in the south [developing]</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Representatives from First Nations Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Fiji and the Solomon Islands convened in Canberra on July 15-17 and agreed on a joint platform for COP31, demanding Indigenous knowledge be placed at the centre of climate decisions rather than in symbolic advisory roles [active]</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A blaze tore through the Mohammadia state child-welfare home in eastern Algiers on the night of July 16, killing at least 11 people, most of them children, and injuring 19 others; Algerian authorities opened a criminal investigation while the country faces more than 1,000 active wildfires driven by extreme heat [active]</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A wildfire tore through the Fontainebleau forest near Paris on July 13-14, forcing highway closures and mobilising water-bombing aircraft, as Italy braced for 44C temperatures and Spain's Almeria wildfire death toll rose to 13 in western Europe's third major heat episode of the summer [active]</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Bangladesh's disaster management ministry confirmed 51 deaths and 39 injuries from monsoon flooding and landslides as of July 13, with more than 1 million people affected across Chattogram, Cox's Bazar, Sylhet and adjoining districts; Prime Minister Tarique Rahman ordered all government agencies onto maximum alert [worsening]</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A wildfire France's interior ministry called 'very virulent' swept through the Fontainebleau forest in Seine-et-Marne, south of Paris, starting Sunday afternoon July 12; by July 14 it had destroyed more than 1,900 hectares, forced mass evacuations, closed the A6 motorway, and brought 850 firefighters, 200 vehicles, and six aircraft into action, with two people arrested on suspicion of arson [active]</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Chile's government declared a preventive emergency across 10 regions from Atacama to Los Ríos from July 13 to 21, deploying 368 emergency committees, as an intense atmospheric river is forecast to bring extreme rain, strong winds, snow, coastal swells, and possible blizzards, with peak impact expected Tuesday to Saturday [active]</description>
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      <title>Analysts warn a 'super' El Niño could push global food commodity prices up 15.8% and sustain the shock into 2028</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Analysts warned on July 12 that the developing super El Niño weather cycle could cause a 15.8 percent surge in global food commodity prices, compounding inflation already elevated by the Iran war, with the price shock potentially lasting into 2028; the Irish Examiner termed the effect 'climateflation', linking the phenomenon to drought risk across West Africa and Southeast Asia [worsening]</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A fire tore through the Na Ladprao music pub in northern Bangkok overnight on July 12, killing at least 30 people and injuring more than 70, with 24 still in critical condition as of July 14; CNN described the blaze as Bangkok's deadliest in 17 years; a preliminary inspection found multiple safety violations at the venue, with police opening a criminal investigation [active]</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Two wildfires burning simultaneously in British Columbia's Fraser Canyon triggered evacuation orders for communities along the route and forced the closure of Highway 1, the main trans-Canada highway through the canyon, though the road reopened on July 11 as firefighters got a weather break with cooler temperatures and lighter winds; the fires are the largest to threaten the canyon since at least 2023. [active]</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The Regional District of East Kootenay placed 72 properties in British Columbia's Premier Lake area under an evacuation alert after the Lussier River fire grew on Saturday July 12, reaching 1,200 hectares; a brief weather reprieve that had helped crews ends as hotter temperatures return; the Brunswick Creek wildfire north of Boston Bar also remains active [worsening]</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>France's third heatwave since May forced the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, and the Musee d'Orsay to close early on July 11, with a quarter of mainland France under the highest heat alert level; Meteo-France put 24 departments in northwestern France under a red heat alert covering more than 22 million people, and cycling's Tour de France shortened a stage for the first time in its history [active]</description>
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      <title>Missouri governor declares state of emergency after historic flooding kills at least two and triggers 200 camper rescues and about 100 water rescues</title>
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      <description>The French government activated the Orsec 'extreme heat' emergency plan on July 10 for the first time since the plan was created, covering nine departments facing temperatures approaching 40 Celsius with red alerts expected soon for 24; the mechanism, originally designed for floods and natural disasters, mobilises cooling centres for vulnerable people and additional civil-protection resources over a busy summer holiday weekend [active]</description>
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      <description>Landslides and flooding driven by Typhoon Bavi killed at least 15 people in the Philippines by July 10, with incidents in Bukidnon province on Mindanao island confirmed by Khaleej Times, as the typhoon's outer rain bands intensified the seasonal monsoon before the storm moved on to batter Taiwan and make landfall in China [active]</description>
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      <description>Typhoon Bavi's eyewall was passing near northeast Taiwan on July 9, with Taiwan's Central Weather Administration forecasting up to 900 mm of rain in northern mountain areas through Sunday and issuing the CWA's first-ever 'mega wave' warning for waves exceeding 6 metres; forecasters described Bavi as the largest storm to hit Taiwan since 1987 [worsening]</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Maharashtra alone recorded 63 deaths from monsoon-related disasters between July 1-8, 2026; at least four more died in a Delhi building collapse on July 9; Gujarat and Kerala are also under flooding; 16 were feared trapped under a Pune garbage mound collapse; India's Meteorological Department issued a red alert for Delhi-NCR after 34.9 mm fell in three hours [worsening]</description>
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      <title>Almería wildfire that killed at least 12 in southern Spain declared stabilised; investigators work to identify victims and missing</title>
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      <description>Spain's Andalusia wildfire that killed at least 12 people in Los Gallardos, Almería province, was declared stabilised on July 12 by the head of the Andalusia regional government; 1,500 people had been evacuated; investigators were working to identify victims and the missing, some of whom were foreign tourists caught in the blaze [contained]</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Typhoon Bavi made landfall late on July 11 in the coastal city of Taizhou in Zhejiang Province, eastern China, at 23:20 local time with maximum sustained winds of 144 km/h; nearly 2 million people were evacuated ahead of landfall; the Philippines death toll from monsoon-amplified landslides rose to 17 with Malapatan, Sarangani province recording the highest toll; Japan and Taiwan also experienced impacts before Bavi struck the Chinese coast [active]</description>
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      <description>More than 830 wildfires burning across Canada and Minnesota on July 15 pushed hazardous smoke plumes from western Ontario into the Great Lakes, New England, and beyond, with health advisories in effect across the region [active]</description>
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      <description>Bavi struck Rota at approximately 8 a.m. July 6 local time as a Category 5 with 180 mph winds and 901 mb pressure; NWS confirmed 'catastrophic wind' on the island of 1,500 people, with Guam also losing power; the storm is now forecast to approach Taiwan around July 10 [worsening]</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Multi-model ensembles show sea-surface anomalies exceeding 2°C in the central and eastern Pacific, a trajectory not seen in 155 years of records; June 2026 global ocean temperatures already broke all prior June marks [worsening]</description>
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      <description>The Ivorian government's July 2 Council of Ministers statement put the death toll at 59 since May, with 20 fatalities from a single round of Abidjan flooding in late June; 7.5 million people are at risk across the sub-region [worsening]</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Nigeria experienced its worst floods in a decade by mid-2026, with 1.3 million people displaced and 2.8 million affected across submerged farmlands; the IRC warned the Central Sahel, encompassing Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso, faced above-average rains killing hundreds and devastating over one million hectares of cropland, while UNHCR called for emergency assistance for 3.4 million displaced people across Nigeria, Chad, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Cameroon [active]</description>
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      <title>Taal Volcano fires two phreatomagmatic eruptions in one day, sending 1,200-metre ash plume over Batangas</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>PHIVOLCS logged a four-minute morning burst at 7:13 a.m. reaching 450 metres, then a stronger afternoon event at 2:34 p.m. with three pulses of dark grey ash rising 1,200 metres and drifting southwest; Alert Level 1 remains in force [active]</description>
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      <title>Heat dome to bake central and eastern US through July 4, putting 200 million at risk</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>An upper-level high pressure ridge is driving 90-100°F temperatures across more than two dozen states from the Great Lakes to the Gulf Coast, with heat index values reaching 115°F in spots; peak danger is July 3-4 as over 100 million people face Major or Extreme heat risk [active]</description>
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      <title>Europe heatwave claims over 1,300 lives in nine days, WHO warns</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>WHO counts 150 million people under extreme temperatures; France alone accounts for nearly 1,000 of the excess deaths since June 24 [worsening]</description>
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      <title>Three US federal firefighters killed in Colorado burnover as Snyder Mesa Fire reaches 28,000 acres</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Five members of an interagency crew deploying fire shelters were overtaken by a wind-driven burnover on the Snyder Mesa Fire in western Colorado Saturday; three died and two were hospitalised with burns, as merged fires burned uncontained across more than 40 square miles [active]</description>
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      <title>Japan's late-June Baiu floods kill at least one and leave five missing as Mekkhala and Higos worsen the seasonal front</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Tropical storms Mekkhala and Higos collided with Japan's Baiu stationary rain front in late June 2026, triggering floods and landslides across Kyushu, the Kinki region, and Ishikawa; at least one person died in a Yamaguchi landslide, four were reported missing after a Wajima construction-site mudslide, 16 rivers in Ishikawa breached their banks, and roughly 6,500 homes lost power [concluded]</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Germany's Drewitz station logged 41.5°C on June 27, a new national record breaking the previous day's mark; Washington Post and CNN cite researchers calling the event the worst European heatwave ever recorded; heat moved into Poland and the Czech Republic [worsening]</description>
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      <title>UK sets provisional June temperature record at 36.7°C for second consecutive day</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The Met Office confirmed Merryfield in Somerset provisionally broke its own record set 24 hours earlier; Wales and Northern Ireland also set national June highs as a heat dome covers Western Europe [worsening]</description>
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      <title>Typhoon Francisco weakens and exits; Tropical Storm Gardo enters Philippine Area of Responsibility</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The Philippines faced back-to-back systems in an unusually active southwest monsoon period, with Francisco exiting June 25 and Gardo entering the same evening bringing fresh rain warnings for Manila's coast [active]</description>
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      <title>Torrential rains kill 24 across Accra and Abidjan as June breaks Ghana's all-time monthly rainfall record</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Flash floods and landslides from a multi-day West African rain event killed 12 in Greater Accra and at least 12 more in Abidjan on June 29-30; June 2026 set Ghana's highest monthly rainfall on record, with 140mm falling on Accra in a single day, and President Mahama authorized emergency contingency funds [active]</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The third day of the worst European June heatwave on record sees nuclear plants throttled, the Eiffel Tower close early, and a grid stress warning in France [worsening]</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Typhoon Mekkhala and Typhoon Higos struck simultaneously on June 27, the first double-landfall in June since records began; 82,921 people were evacuated in Okinawa, 9 injured in Naha, and a record 250mm-per-hour downpour was recorded, with landslides breaking out in Nara [active]</description>
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      <title>Venezuela earthquake death toll reaches 1,943 with airport still closed; La Guaira port reopened for aid</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The official count rose to 1,943 dead and 10,571 injured by June 30, with 43,000 still missing; Simón Bolívar Airport's primary runway remains closed until at least July 2 while the La Guaira port declared operational and is being used by US and other relief vessels [worsening]</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The omega blocking pattern holds into a sixth day; France records its hottest nationally averaged temperature ever while Spain's toll climbs and UK breaks the all-time June record [active]</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The western North Pacific's annual typhoon season, the world's most active tropical cyclone basin, generates roughly 26 named storms per year and drives disaster preparedness across 14 nations.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The seasonal wind reversal delivering 75-90% of annual rainfall to nine countries between June and September, driving food security, flood risk, and public health across South Asia.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Okinawa faces 7-metre waves and 150mm of rain as two tropical systems track northeast; forecasters warn of a combined system hitting Honshu on June 27 [active]</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Official count stood at 1,943 dead and 10,571 injured as of June 30, with 43,000 still missing; La Guaira port declared operational June 30, removing the aid bottleneck; UNICEF confirmed 680,000 children require assistance [worsening]</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Santé publique France puts excess deaths since June 24 near 1,000, with 85% over age 65, as Spain counts 327 and the UK hits 37.3°C in Suffolk [transition]</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>France logs its highest nationally averaged temperature ever; UK issues a rare red health alert; power prices spike 29%; crop damage projections for southern Europe [active]</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A 46% June rainfall deficit and El Nino-driven IMD forecast of 90% of long-period average has cotton and oilseed farmers in Maharashtra and Gujarat holding back planting [worsening]</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A 46% rainfall deficit by June 22 dries the soybean and groundnut belts even as Mumbai finally gets rain [worsening]</description>
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      <description>Tranche 2 of the EPBC reforms creates a national EPA as Australia takes a negotiator role at Türkiye's COP31 [active]</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>28 deaths and a doubling of cases in early June, blamed on monsoon rains and debris left by Cyclone Ditwah, put 2026 on track to rival the 2019 record [worsening]</description>
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