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Issued on: 04/05/2023 - 21:15 Global food and beverage giant Nestlé said Thursday that it would stop extracting from two mineral water wells in eastern France due to…

STRASBOURG, France: Global food and beverage giant Nestle said Thursday that it would stop extracting from two mineral water wells in eastern France due to drought and increasingly unpredictable weather conditions.The group's mineral water…

Issued on: 11/04/2023 - 20:37 U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed for “massive international support” for Somalia on Tuesday during his visit to the East…

LONDON: England had its joint hottest summer on record this year, tied with 2018, the country's meteorological agency said on Thursday (Sep 1) as it unveiled provisional mean temperature statistics for the three-month period. The…

BEIJING: Tens of thousands of people were evacuated to safer areas by Monday as heavy rains brought flood risks to a region of southwest China that for most of the summer was devastated by a heatwave and drought. Heavy rain was forecast for…

<!-- -->China's Jiangxi province raised its drought emergency response from Level III to Level IV.Jiujiang: Teams of drillers are working long hours to build wells to fight a devastating drought sweeping parts of China, farmers in…

<!-- -->China is using cloud-seeding technology to generate rain to alleviate the drought conditions.Authorities in China are trying to induce rainfall in the midst of a catastrophic drought, which is caused by a record-breaking…

Lidl has said it will sell "stunted" fruit and vegetables impacted by the drought to support farmers and ensure food does not go to waste.The discount supermarket has written to its British fresh produce suppliers to offer…

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LOS ANGELES: A powerful winter storm battered the western United States on Monday (Dec 27), dumping much-needed snow on the drought-parched mountains of California, but causing travel misery over a wide area. Three feet (1m) of snow had…