Raging bushfires in Australia could become the norm if adequate action isn't taken to curb greenhouse gases, scientists have warned.
Despite the Australian government downplaying the long-term effects of global climate change, a review of 57 scientific papers published since 2013 suggested otherwise.
"We're not going to reverse climate change on any conceivable timescale. So the conditions that are happening now, they won't go away," Richard Betts, Head of Climate Impacts Research at Britain's Met Office Hadley Centre, who co-authored the review, told a news conference in London.
According to the review, scientists have found an increase in the frequency of "fire weather" not only in Australia, but in the US and Canada, Europe, Scandinavia, the Amazon and Siberia.
It found that globally, fire weather seasons have lengthened across about 25 per cent.
An earthquake of magnitude 6.7 hit central Peru on Thursday, the United States Geological Survey said, although authorities reported no immediate casualties or damage.
Australian police recovered the body of an 18-year-old hiker overnight from dense bushland in a remote national park near Sydney, authorities said on Friday, more than a week after she went missing.
Bangladeshi lawmakers elected veteran Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir as the country's new president on Thursday, making the longtime opposition figure the head of state after his party came to power in a major political transition.
Russian strikes have killed 16 people and injured more than 40 in Kyiv and the surrounding region on Thursday as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a failure by Ukraine's allies to replenish its stock of air defence missiles was costing lives.
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan plan to move back to Britain this month, six years after they stepped down from their royal duties and relocated to the US, a source close to the couple said.
South Korea's presidential office has condemned North Korea's launch of more than 10 short-range ballistic missiles on Thursday and ordered its military to maintain full readiness during ongoing joint exercises with the United States.
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Strong earthquake strikes central Peru
At least 50 killed as overloaded boat capsizes in Nigeria
Australian police recover body of missing teenage hiker near Sydney
Bangladesh elects ruling party veteran Alamgir as president
Russian strikes kill 16 in Ukraine's Kyiv
Prince Harry and Meghan to move back to Britain
North Korea launches 10 ballistic missiles as US-South Korea drills near end
Kenya tourist helicopter crash kills seven
