Widespread evacuation orders and emergency declarations remained in place on Wednesday across Oregon and Washington as wildfires fanned by powerful winds continue to encroach on cities and towns across the region, turning skies dark red and leaving p
Read more…This Antarctic colossus is melting at a rapid rate, dumping billions of tonnes of ice in the ocean every year and pushing up global sea-levels.
Flowing off the west of the Antarctic continent, Thwaites is almost as big as Great Britain.
Read more…Wildfires have burned through a record number of acres in California this year as firefighters continue to battle several large blazes across the state.
The state's department of forestry and fire protection, Cal Fire, says more than two million acre
Read more…It comes days after Maysak, one of the region's strongest typhoons in years.
This is similar to the USA and Ireland which recently had storms one after another
Haishen has led to the closure of factories, schools and businesses across western Japa
Read more…A blast of cold air will plummet into the north-central United States and unleash temperatures 10 to 20 degrees Fahrenheit below normal that will challenge some long-standing records along with early-season snowfall to the Rockies early next week.
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Read more…Typhoon Haishen is strengthening and, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, has become the first super typhoon of the season in the western Pacific Ocean, but the storm's timing couldn't be worse, as it comes right on the heels of Typhoon Ma
Read more…Following what has already been a hot summer in much of the West, yet another surge of heat will take aim at the region late this week and right into the weekend.
Excessive heat watches and warnings have been issued across the region, including San
Read more…Flood waters have receded significant in Clifden, Co Galway following torrential rain last night and this morning caused what locals have described as unprecedented flooding.
A number of homes in the town had to be evacuated as water levels on the Ow
Read more…After already causing destruction in Japan's Ryukyu Islands, powerful Typhoon Maysak is now preparing to unleash a strike on the Korean Peninsula and western Japan as the most potent storm to prowl the waters of the West Pacific so far this year.
Read more…The Atlantic is showing no signs of losing steam following Laura's wrath along the U.S. Gulf Coast last week, with two new systems forming early this week. Tropical Storm Nana developed in the western Caribbean Sea on Tuesday, joining Tropical Storm
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Read more…At 1 a.m. CDT Thursday, Hurricane Laura became the strongest storm to hit Louisiana since 1856, with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph, just 7 mph shy of being upgraded to Category 5 status. This made it stronger than Hurricane Katrina was when it m
Read more…Pakistan is seeing the worst rainfall since records began 89 years ago. The annual monsoon rain is particularly bad this year and the city of Karachi is largely underwater,
Roads have turned to rivers, houses have been destroyed and people had to fle
Read more…With winds in excess of 100mph, Bavi brings flooding rains to parts of North and South Korea.
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Hurricane Laura made landfall in southwestern Louisiana as one of the most powerful storms to hit the state, with forecasters warning it could push a massive wall of water 65km inland from the sea.
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Read more…Wildfires are raging across Northern California, which were sparked by dry lightning during a heatwave.
Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced and 1.5million acres of land has been burnt.
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