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Extreme heat and prolonged drought are set to cut this year's Czech vegetable harvest by roughly 30%, while also changing the appearance of many crops — cauliflower is turning yellow, celery is shrinking, and cucumbers are becoming misshape

Seven people died on Czech roads over the weekend, according to police figures as of 4 p.m. on Sunday. The fatal accidents occurred across several regions of the country, from the Ústí nad Labem Region to the Jihlava area.Two of Saturday's

The temperature anomaly in the ocean's key Niño 3.4 region reached +2.03°C in July, and according to data for the week centered on August 12, the figure temporarily spiked to +2.7°C. This is according to the International Research Institute

In the village of Otovice in the Karlovy Vary region, a 41-year-old man brutally beat his wife, who is the same age, striking her repeatedly in the face with his fists. The woman suffered extremely severe head injuries and had to be airlift

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Saturday that the country is effectively at war with the United States: "When you are attacked, you are at war. We have been attacked." His remarks came amid a sharp escalation of the trade disput

Captured Russian servicemen originally from Donbas have spoken about their motives for fighting against Ukraine in an interview cited by the British broadcaster BBC. The men, who grew up in territories controlled by pro-Russian forces since

Long summer school holidays gradually made their way into the education calendars of Europe and America starting in the late 18th century. In the Czech lands, this shift was driven by the reforms of Maria Theresa and her son Joseph II — it

A 95-year-old man was killed in Ostrava-Poruba at an unregulated pedestrian crossing after being struck by an Audi driven by a man nearly 80 years old. The accident occurred at around 8:35 a.m., according to police spokeswoman Soňa Štětínsk

A tourist who set out to tackle a via ferrata route on the Skalka cliff near the Slovak town of Kremnica did so wearing ordinary rubber Crocs-style sandals instead of the sturdy, grippy boots normally recommended for such climbs. Footage of

Drought and creeping desertification are pushing some countries to try artificially influencing the weather. For instance, Kazakhstan launched an emergency cloud-seeding programme this May — a method never before used in Central Asia. Meteo

A tourist was bitten by a venomous scorpion that had been hiding undetected in her jacket for the entire journey at Düsseldorf Airport in Germany. The incident happened on Friday as the woman was returning from a Mediterranean holiday, Germ

Radka Třeštíková, one of the best-selling Czech authors of the post-revolutionary era, has announced that she will publish future books under a new pen name — Velikovski. The news was confirmed by Martina Vydrová, spokesperson for the Motto