A major landslide destroyed homes overnight in a village in Norway close to the capital Oslo, leaving 12 people unaccounted for and 10 injured, police and local media said Wednesday. Video footage from the scene showed a whole hillside had collapsed
Read more…The world continued to pay a very high price for extreme weather in 2020, according to a report from the charity Christian Aid.
Against a backdrop of climate change, its study lists 10 events that saw thousands of lives lost and major insurance cos
Met Éireann has issued a Status Yellow snow and ice warning for several counties, while more than 1,000 homes are without power after Storm Bella swept across the country last night.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/1227/1186573-storm-bella-latest/
Read more…Hungarian doctors and health care workers began getting vaccinated Saturday with one of the continent's first shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19, upsetting plans for a coordinated rollout on Sunday of the first shots across the
Read more…UK Met Office scientists are forecasting that 2021 will be a little cooler around the world, but will still be one of the top six warmest years.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-55365414
Read more…Met Éireann has issued nationwide Status Yellow warnings for tomorrow as wind and rain associated with Storm Bella hits Ireland.
It says westerly winds will reach speeds of 50km/h to 65km/h with gusts of 90km/h to 110km/h. Gusts will be higher at tim
Read more…Dr. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Hea
Read more…Chile's armed forces said at least 36 people had been infected at its Bernardo O'Higgins base, including 26 army personnel and ten civilian contractors conducting maintenance at the base.
https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2020/1222/1186052-coronavir
Read more…Level 5(top level) to be reintroduced, in Ireland, on Christmas Eve.
Read more…Residents of the port town of Seydisfjordur in east Iceland have been moved to safety following a mudslide after record levels of rainfall.
Some houses were destroyed by the deluge of mud and rocks.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-55389821
Read more…A major nor'easter is pummeling the interior Northeast with feet of snow, and some cities along the Interstate 95 corridor have already eclipsed their total snow from last winter.
An intense snow band continues to pummel the Binghamton, New York, ar
Read more…Heavy snow has been falling across Japan and there's more to come.
Several snowfall records have been broken including Fujiwara which saw 176cm of snow in 48 hours, breaking the old record of 145cm from January 2010.
