The year 2020 is the hottest in the Antarctic Peninsula in the past three decades, a study by the University of Santiago de Chile found.
Those temperatures are "more than 2C over typical values," climatologist Raul Cordero said in a statement releas
Read more…The first person cured of HIV - Timothy Ray Brown - has died from cancer.
Mr Brown, who was also known as "the Berlin patient", was given a bone marrow transplant from a donor who was naturally resistant to HIV.
It meant he no longer needed anti-vira
Read more…This link contains many good graphs on the number of global COVID deaths.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned the death toll could hit two million before an effective vaccine is widely used.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-51235105
Read more…After Hurricane Laura unleashed catastrophic storm surge on the coast of Louisiana, residents who stayed put say they will never again stay during a hurricane.
“Something that you experience one time and don't do it again,” explained Kim Eagleson, a
Read more…Parts of Austria and Switzerland were surprised by unseasonably early snowfall overnight, after a sharp drop in temperatures and heavy precipitation. The Swiss meteorological agency said Saturday that the town of Montana, in the southern canton (stat
Read more…Forecasters say big changes are on the way, and places like Minneapolis, Chicago and Detroit and many others may seemingly skip over the first part of fall and could be plunged into a November-like pattern next week.
...will send waves of chilly air
Read more…LOS ANGELES (AP) — A wildfire scorching its way through brush and timber from the mountains to the desert northeast of Los Angeles threatened more than 1,000 homes on Tuesday as crews across the West battled dozens of other major blazes.
Read more…https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000bzek/executive
Read more…Beta may prove that there is more to a storm than wind intensity, as it unleashes days of heavy rainfall and flooding to residents throughout the coast, many of whom are still cleaning up from previous storms.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurrican
Read more…After churning out Tropical Storm Wilfred and Subtropical Storm Alpha, the hyperactive Atlantic continues to generate more named storms with the formation of Tropical Storm Beta. Forming Friday afternoon, forecasters warn there is potential for Beta
Read more…AccuWeather meteorologists upped the number of tropical storms anticipated in the record-setting 2020 Atlantic hurricane season this week, as the last name on the list designated for the season, Wilfred, is likely to be exhausted by week's end. Forec
Read more…There have been more than 15,000 fires in Brazil's Pantanal wetlands so far this year, causing widespread devastation. That is triple the number recorded in the same period in 2019, according to data collected by Brazil's National Institute for Space
Read more…So as the calendar closes in on the final quarter of months for what has been a record-shattering wildfire year, Westerners are left hoping that the final few months prove less destructive than the previous few. However, recent history suggests the w
Read more…A newly formed hurricane is closing in on the US Gulf Coast, threatening several southern US states including Florida, Mississippi and Alabama.
This year's hurricane season has been particularly active.
For only the second time in recorded history,
Read more…The Atlantic Ocean has spawned named storms at a blistering pace this year, with Paulette, Rene, Sally and Teddy the most recent additions in what is on track to be a historic season. Forecasters say the last two names on the Atlantic hurricane seaso
Read more…Hurricane and tropical storm warnings were in effect for portions of the U.S. Gulf Coast as AccuWeather meteorologists on Sunday continued monitoring the latest threat to the U.S.: Tropical Storm Sally, which had taken shape a day earlier.
Read more…Multiple injuries were reported after a sandstorm ripped through parts of northern Turkey on Saturday, an unusual occurrence for the region.
Areas across northern Turkey, including the capitol city of Ankara, were plunged into darkness on Saturday af
Read more…The extremely active Atlantic hurricane season is about to kick into overdrive. As many as three to five named tropical systems could be churning through the Atlantic at the same time by the middle of September, forecasters warned, and more records c
Read more…Half a million people have been evacuated from their homes in Oregon as unprecedented wildfires rage along the US west coast.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0911/1164533-us-wildfires/
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