Gaz de France hit by warm winter
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Gaz de France predicts a year of consolidation after what it describes as the warmest winter for 50 years.
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No matter where you are in ski country, the early-season snowfall has been pretty decent. The Pacific Northwest, the Rockies, and the Northeast have all received at least one good wallop from Mother Nature.
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The temperature rose back above the freezing mark Tuesday as hundreds of thousands of people waited for the restoration of electrical service that was knocked out by last week's snow and ice storm.
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Global warming is more than just a theory to Germany's most famous winter resort, where a worrisome shortage of snow in recent decades has forced the Alpine village to reinvent itself.
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ASTIGARRAGA, Spain It's a beautiful winter afternoon in Spain's Basque Country. Up a steep dirt driveway, an apple grove on one side and traditional wooden barns on the other, buses and cars are parked everywhere, but not a soul is in sight.
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Vandals torched 372 cars as France celebrated the New Year, down on the figure last year after a night the police described as "relatively calm".
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Europe's Alpine region is going through its warmest period in 1,300 years, the head of an extensive climate study said Tuesday.
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Bordeaux, France - Seven people were killed and 40 injured in a pileup involving a Spanish coach and 10 cars early on Sunday. The accident took place on the Bayonne-Bordeaux highway in southwest France, the Gironde prefect&#39;s office said.
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Now for the hard part. Having made it through fast and dangerous racing during the opening flat stages of the Tour de France, riders veer Wednesday into the Pyrenees for their first encounter with the high mountains.
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Met Office figures show last year was the second warmest on record in the UK.
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LEWISTON, Maine -- After one of the warmest winters on record, this coming winter will be much colder than normal from coast to coast, according to the latest edition of the venerable Farmers' Almanac.
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There's not enough snow in Europe and not enough dough in America. In a surprise announcement Wednesday night, Guenther Hujara, director of the men's World Cup, said there wasn't enough sponsorship dollars for Colorado resorts to hold some of the ski races that have been scrapped by warm weather and a lack of snow in Europe.
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French designer Jean-Paul Gaultier transported guests from the freezing pavements of Paris to the steamy climes of Africa as he sought inspiration from Mombasa to Cotonou for his latest haute couture collection on Wednesday.
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Lorie Kane is used to working in less-than-ideal weather conditions. &quot;We played in all kinds of wind and cold, and I think you just have to take the attitude that as long as you&#39;re warm
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The women's Alpine ski races scheduled for the French ski resort of Val d'Isere are written off because of warm weather.
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Next month's men's races scheduled in the French Alps resort of Val d'Isere have been canceled due to a lack of snow, the International Skiing Federation (FIS) announced on Wednesday.
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Winter's fury arrived late but with a vengeance across Europe on Thursday, dumping snow that wreaked havoc with Switzerland's famously efficient trains and gave Rome and the Mediterranean island of Mallorca a rare white blanket.