The figure of a relaxing cat has been discovered in the Nazca desert in Peru.
The Nazca lines, a Unesco World Heritage site, is home to designs on the ground - known as geoglyphs - created some 2,000 years ago.
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Read more…"A frantic search is under way in Vietnam to find 11 soldiers whose barracks were buried by a huge landslide as the country battles its worst floods for years."
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Read more…A city in eastern China has started offering a coronavirus vaccine to the general public - although it has not yet completed clinical trials.
Hundreds of people have been queuing outside a hospital in Yiwu, where nurses are administering the injectio
Read more…A 31-year-old record melted away on Wednesday as relentless triple-digit heat continued to scorch Phoenix, Arizona, for the 144th day this year. The previous record for the most 100-degree days in a year was set in 1989 with 143 days in total.
When t
Read more…Heavy rains have disrupted life and destroyed homes across the southern states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
At least 20 people have died.
Heaviest rain fall ever in the past 24 hours.
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Read more…"An atmospheric river of moisture extending all the way from the central Pacific to the Pacific Northwest is ushering in some much-needed fire relief and precipitation for the charred area, but forecasters say the storm will entirely bypass fire-ra
Read more…"Australia's Great Barrier Reef has lost more than half of its corals since 1995"
"Scientists found all types of corals had suffered a decline across the world's largest reef system. The steepest falls came after mass bleaching events in 2016 and 20
Read more…As the remnants of Delta scattered across the Mississippi Valley into Sunday morning, power outages and isolated bursts of severe weather spawned by the storm spread as far east as Georgia.
Delta, a former Category 4 hurricane in the Caribbean and th
Read more…A man in the United States has caught Covid twice, with the second infection becoming far more dangerous than the first, doctors report.
The 25-year-old needed hospital treatment after his lungs could not get enough oxygen into his body.
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Johnson & Johnson has temporarily halted its Covid-19 vaccine trial because one of its participants had become sick, the company said.
"We have temporarily paused further dosing in all our Covid-19 vaccine candidate clinical trials, including the Pha
Read more…The virus that causes Covid-19 can survive on banknotes, glass and stainless steel for up to 28 days, much longer than the flu virus, according to a new study.
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Read more…Hurricane Delta has made landfall in the US state of Louisiana, which is still recovering from the damage caused by a previous hurricane in August.
This is the 10th named storm to make US landfall so far this year, breaking a record that has stood
surface air temperatures last month were 0.05C warmer than in 2019, making it the hottest September on record globally, experts from the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said.
It was also the hottest September Europe has seen, beating the
Read more…The blazes have scorched an area larger than Rhode Island. Plus, the biggest fire has been burning for nearly two months now – and is just 54% contained.
More than 16,600 firefighters continue to work towards containment on 23 major wildfires.
5 of
Read more…After becoming a hurricane over the Caribbean on Monday evening, Delta continued to gain strength early Tuesday morning. AccuWeather forecasters are warning that the powerful storm could strike the central Gulf Coast of the United States prior to the
Read more…While Tropical Storm Gamma continues to meander on the northern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, another tropical feature is brewing in the region.
Read more…The 24th tropical storm of the 2020 Atlantic tropical season, Gamma, is delivering another flooding threat to parts of Mexico.
A stalled front, stretching from South Florida to the Bay of Campeche, brought tremendous flooding across parts of the Yuc
Read more…At least two people have died and up to 20 are still missing after a powerful storm hit south-eastern France and north-western Italy.
Named Alex, the storm brought fierce winds and torrential rain.
In north-western Italy, flooding was described as
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