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Remains of five more victims have been found in Northern California wildfire, which brings the death toll in this disaster to 76 people, local authorities reported.

Global investors report that after all the data is sorted it is now cheaper to build a new solar or wind farm than to maintain an existing coal plant.

In a significant act of peaceful civil disobedience, over 70 have reportedly been arrested on Saturday as an estimated 6000 ‘climate rebellion’ protesters closed the five main river bridges over the Thames in London.

Remains of eight more victims have been found in Northern California wildfire, bringing the death toll in this disaster to 71, local authorities reported.

A strong magnitude 6.6 earthquake has struck east of Solomon Islands on Friday, the United States Geological Survey reported.

The remains of seven more victims have been found in Northern California wildfire, while the number of people reported missing from the disaster has risen to more than 600, sheriff reported.

A new study published in the academic journal Science Advances on Wednesday suggests that Italy's Campi Flegrei, a supervolcano that hasn't erupted in roughly 500 years, is getting ready to kick things up a notch.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - President Donald Trump will travel to California on Saturday to meet with residents of the state impacted by the wildfires there, White House Deputy Press Secretary Lindsay Walters said in a press release on Thursday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – As many as 130 people have been missing amid the deadly wildfires in the United States’ western state of California, Butte county Sheriff Kory Honea said, adding that at least 56 people have been killed in the blaze.

An international team of researchers has verified the presence of a huge 31 kilometres (19 miles) wide meteor crater beneath a half-mile layer of ice in Greenland, underneath Hiawatha Glacier.

A strong earthquake with a 6.5 magnitude has been registered near the eastern coast of Russia's far eastern Kamchatka peninsula, Russian seismologists reported.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The number of people who have lost their lives in the wildfires in the US western state of California increased to 48 on Wednesday, Sheriff of the Butte County in California Kory Honea said.

The remains of at least 42 people killed in northern California, US, wildfires have been located, which makes it the deadliest wildland fire in the history of the state, Sheriff said.

A man in Australia was killed by a shark Monday, around a month after two tourists were critically injured in separate shark attacks in the same area.

Carbon emissions are causing the world’s oceans to become more acidic and the seafloor to disintegrate, according to a new study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS).

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The volcano Ebeko on Paramushir Island, in Russia’s Kuril Islands archipelago, spewed out a column of ash to a height of 4.5 kilometers (2.8 miles), the press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry's department in the Far Eastern Sakhalin Region said in a statement on Sunday.

The stone could be a part of an annual Taurid meteor shower, which is famous for producing up to ten meteors per hour in an astonishing display of cosmic beauty.

MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) - A powerful 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck the north of Chile, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - New Zealand police confirmed in a statement on Wednesday that two people were killed following an avalanche at Aoraki Mount Cook National Park.