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September 18, 2026
ENVIRONMENT Guatemala to provide food aid as El Nino causes severe drought Sep 17, 2026 (AFP)
Guatemala will provide food assistance to more than one million families living through drought due to the powerful El Nino weather pattern, the government announced Wednesday. Read more →
ENVIRONMENT Indonesia seeks to bring back baby orangutans allegedly trafficked to India Sep 11, 2026 (AFP)
Indonesian authorities are working to repatriate five baby orangutans allegedly trafficked to India, where they were found motherless in a forest, Jakarta's forestry ministry told AFP Friday. more
ENVIRONMENT Portugal harvests grapes at night to beat the heat Sep 10, 2026 (AFP)
Equipped with headlamps and pruning shears, a team of farm workers navigate pitch-black darkness during a nocturnal grape harvest that shields them from Portugal's increasingly oppressive summer heat. more
ENVIRONMENT Indonesia rescues six orangutans from fires in a week Sep 10, 2026 (AFP)
Six orangutans including two nursing infants have been rescued from fires raging on Borneo island in the past week, Indonesian authorities and rescuers said Thursday, bringing the total to 15 in a month. more
ENVIRONMENT Praying for rain as fires, haze plague Indonesian Borneo Sep 08, 2026 (AFP)
Wildfires ravaging the Indonesian part of Borneo island are choking communities as far away as Malaysia with putrid haze, testing the resources and resolve of those having to endure them. more
ENVIRONMENT Panama Canal considering more cuts in transits due to El Nino Sep 07, 2026 (AFP)
The number of ships sailing through the Panama Canal could be cut further due to drought caused by the El Nino weather pattern, the new administrator of the waterway told AFP on Monday. more
ENVIRONMENT Scorching summer pushes French wine harvest to new historic low Sep 07, 2026 (AFP)
French wine production this year is expected to fall 6 percent from 2025 after a summer of unprecedented heatwaves and drought, the agriculture ministry said on Monday, predicting the most paltry harvest for some 70 years. more
ENVIRONMENT Deadly attack and drought emergency underline S.Sudan challenges Sep 05, 2026 (AFP)
A deadly attack on a military base in South Sudan, combined with the declaration of an "unprecedented" drought emergency, have underlined the challenges facing the world's youngest nation as it prepares for its first elections. more
ENVIRONMENT Trump again seeks to remove protections for wolves Sep 04, 2026 (AFP)
President Donald Trump's administration on Friday pushed to drop endangered species protections for wolves, outraging conservationists who said the move would jeopardize the iconic predators' recovery from the brink of extinction. more
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