An unusual combination of weather conditions are culminating in an extreme fire danger across Southern California, one that prompted the National Weather Service (NWS) to issue urgent red flag warnings, which called the setup “a particularly dangerou
Read more…Tropical Storm Zeta has developed in the western Caribbean, and an additional disturbance shows potential for tropical development in the region, one of which could become the next hurricane.
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Read more…An international treaty banning nuclear weapons has been ratified by a 50th country, the UN has said, allowing the "historic" text to enter into force after 90 days.
While nuclear powers have not signed up to the treaty, activists who have pushed for
Read more…It’s beginning to look a lot like winter across parts of the north-central United States as waves of snow and frigid air have frequented the region this week, but the next blast of Arctic air will be the coldest one yet.
Temperatures will tumble to t
Read more…US coronavirus cases have hit a record daily high as states grapple with a renewed wave of infections.
Citing data from local state health authorities, the Covid Tracking Project reported 83,010 new cases on Friday.
US Surgeon General Jerome Adam
Waves of winterlike weather have already delivered helpings of record-setting, early-season snow and intrusions of cold air over the north-central United States. And forecasters warn that more wintry weather is in the pipelines for parts of the weste
Read more…Poland’s top court ruled Thursday that a law allowing abortion of fetuses with congenital defects is unconstitutional, shutting a major loophole in the predominantly Catholic country's abortion laws that are among the strictest in Europe.
Read more…Millions of people in Vietnam face a "deadly double disaster" as the country - already suffering from the impact of Covid-19 - battles its worst floods for decades, the Red Cross says.
Flooding and landslides this month have killed over 100 people,
While much of the United States is just starting to get a feel for cool autumn weather, central Iowa started the week by skipping right over the mild fall season and plunging straight into winter with a thick blanket of snow.
The snow began accumula
Read more…The Cameron Peak wildfire has become the biggest fire in Colorado state history after burning over 200,000 acres.
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Around 100 buildings and dozens of parked cars have been damaged by flooding in Cork city centre following this morning's high tide, with damage estimated to run to millions of euro.
https://www.rte.ie/news/weather/2020/1020/1172641-cork-flooding-
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Read more…Australia's Great Barrier Reef has lost more than half of its corals since 1995 due to warmer seas driven by climate change, a study has found.
Scientists found all types of corals had suffered a decline across the world's largest reef system.
Saturday 3 October was the wettest day for UK-wide rainfall since records began in 1891, Met Office researchers have said.
The downpour followed in the wake of Storm Alex and saw an average of 31.7mm (1.24ins) of rain across the entire UK.
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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