Published 26 December 2022 Share page About sharing Media caption, A winter storm causes widespread disruption across North America At least 38 deaths have now been linked to a severe Arctic freeze th
Published 19 November 2022 Share page About sharing Image source, James Gallagher By James Gallagher Inside Health presenter, BBC Radio 4 Mention deadly cold and I think of polar explorers with icicle
A 12-year-old boy in the far north of Russia has died in an outbreak of anthrax that experts believe was triggered when unusually warm weather caused the release of the bacteria. The boy was one of 72
See more from our live coverage: Weather Updates Overnight Storm in New York City Causes Flash Flooding, but No Tornado There were no reports of tornado sightings, despite a warning issued for parts o
Pearl River flooding is exacerbating Jackson’s drinking water crisis, bringing warnings of a system-wide outage, causing some businesses and schools to close Monday and prompting some leaders to call
A view of the water level at Hoover Dam, on the Lake Mead side, in 1997 . . . Chlaus Loetscher/Alamy When Bob Seawright moved to San Diego 27 years ago, the only thought he gave to water was about the
Be ‘Less Squeamish’ About Drinking Recycled Wastewater, British Official Says As droughts become more frequent, drinking water that has been reprocessed from sewage treatment is the future, the head o
Nintendo and Valve have issued warnings to customers regarding overheating hardware as brutal heat waves continue to bake the world. Advanced electronics such as smartphones and gaming devices don’t d
4 hours ago - Energy & Environment La Niña heads for rare "triple dip," dampening global temperatures Andrew Freedman , author of Axios Generate Map of sea surface temperature departures from average
Published 3 June 2022 Share page About sharing Related Topics Climate Image caption, A view of Lake Mead - in wetter times, the water came all the way up to the rocks By Regan Morris and Sophie Long B
The world has just 10 weeks' worth of wheat stockpiled after Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine disrupted supplies from the "breadbasket of Europe". The UN has been warned that global wheat inventor
The coldest location on the planet has experienced an episode of warm weather this week unlike any ever observed, with temperatures over the eastern Antarctic ice sheet soaring 50 to 90 degrees above
GOTHIC, Colo. — As world leaders gathered across the globe this month to discuss a climate crisis that is rapidly heating the Earth, Billy Barr, 71, paused outside his mountainside cabin to measure sn
Series: Sacrifice Zones: Mapping Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution Polluters are turning neighborhoods into “sacrifice zones” where residents breathe in carcinogens. The EPA allows it. We mapped
Published 25 October 2021 comments Share page About sharing Related Topics Our Planet Now Image source, Getty Images Image caption, The fund was meant to help developing countries tackle and adapt to
After a months-long period of relative atmospheric balance between El Niño and La Niña, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday that La Niña has returned. It’s expected
Published 14 September 2021 Share page About sharing Related Topics Climate change Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Over half of those surveyed said they thought humanity was doomed and that
Published 31 August 2021 Share page About sharing Media caption, Watch: 'They're on the road feeling scared and nervous' Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from the shores of Lake Tahoe i
Published 12 August 2021 Share page About sharing Related Topics Europe heatwaves Image source, Reuters Image caption, The Mediterranean heatwave has led to the spread of wildfires across southern Ita
Last summer the temperature in London, where I live, climbed above 37 degrees Celsius —or 100 degrees Fahrenheit. It was hotter outside my body than it was inside it. To someone raised under the sodde
Published 25 July 2021 Share page About sharing Media caption, Flash flooding after heavy rain sweeps across London Heavy downpours and thunderstorms have caused severe flash flooding in parts of Lond
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Like in ‘Postapocalyptic Movies’: Heat Wave Killed Marine Wildlife en Masse An early estimate points to a huge die-off along the Pacific Coast, and scientists say rivers farther inland are warming to
Published 8 July 2021 comments Share page About sharing Related Topics Europe heatwaves Image source, Reuters By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent The searing heat that scorched western Canada an
The Portland Streetcar is 20 years old, making it relatively sprightly for infrastructure in the United States. Yet it was built for a different geological epoch. On Sunday, while Portland suffered th
Source: ECMWF/Copernicus via KNMI Climate Explorer · Shaded areas represent places where maximum temperatures in the last week ranked compared with annual maximum temperatures from 1979 to 2020. Heat
Answers to questions about the current situation in California and the Western half of the United States. Houseboats on the shrinking Lake Oroville reservoir in California last month. Many have now be
As the coronavirus pandemic took hold last spring and people around the world went into lockdown, a certain type of news story started to spring up—the idea that, in the absence of people, nature was
Published 27 May 2021 comments Share page About sharing Related Topics Our Planet Now Image source, Reuters By David Shukman Science editor It's becoming more likely that a key global temperature limi
The United States is getting redder. No, not that kind of red. (We’ll leave that to the political pundits.) We’re talking about the thermometer kind. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administratio
California water officials have moved to stop Nestlé from siphoning millions of gallons of water out of California’s San Bernardino forest, which it bottles and sells as Arrowhead brand water, as drou
I hope we can all agree that “vaccine culture” is a bit depressing. The idea of wearing an evening gown to a COVID-19-vaccine appointment is objectively sad, and speaking from personal experience, tak
Published 29 April 2021 Share page About sharing Related Topics Climate change Image source, Reuters Germany's climate change laws are insufficient and violate fundamental freedoms by putting the burd
Extreme drought across the Western U.S. has become as reliable as a summer afternoon thunderstorm in Florida. And news headlines about drought in the West can seem a bit like a broken record, with som
"In a way we are unprepared for how much worse things will be with climate change." Cruel Fate Scientists recently abandoned a climate research outpost in Cape Cod Massachusetts — because climate chan
Published 13 April 2021 Share page About sharing Related Topics Fukushima nuclear disaster Media caption, Fukushima 10 years on: How the 'triple disaster' unfolded Japan has approved a plan to release
Should We Block the Sun? Scientists Say the Time Has Come to Study It. The National Academies said the United States must study technologies that would artificially cool the planet by reflecting away