Beryl has strengthened into a hurricane in the Atlantic, forecast to become a major storm as it nears Caribbean
MIAMI (AP) — Beryl has strengthened into a hurricane in the Atlantic, forecast to become a major storm as it nears Caribbean.
MIAMI (AP) — Beryl has strengthened into a hurricane in the Atlantic, forecast to become a major storm as it nears Caribbean.
Torrential rain causes landslides and flooding across three countries
Villagers in India's Telangana watch in concern as cattle are swept away as they cross the flooded Peddavagu River on June 28. Heavy rains battered the region. Fortunately, the animals managed to traverse the raging river, providing relief to onlookers.
Severe weather has caused at least four deaths in the mountainous central European country of Switzerland, forcing one federal politician to ponder if the country is capable of weathering future storms.
Contest condemned by animal rights groups sees children and adults hunt cats, which threaten native wildlife
Weather forecasters warned Monday that much of New Mexico faces two more days of elevated threats of dangerous flooding like the walls of water over the weekend that caused severe damage, forced the rescues of 100 people and left parts of one town recently ravaged by wildfires covered in mud and debris. The body of one person was recovered from the Rio Grande in Albuquerque on Sunday, but it wasn't immediately clear if the death was flood related, according to Albuquerque Fire Rescue and Bernalillo County Fire Rescue. Most of central New Mexico remained under a flood watch into Tuesday, including Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Las Vegas and Ruidoso.
The National Weather Service (NWS) is warning of “persistent, dangerous heat” for much of the week, especially in the southern and southwestern parts of the country. The “early July heat wave” is expected in the Southern Plains, Gulf Coast, Southeast and Mid-Atlantic Coast, Central Valley of California and Mojave Desert of California and Nevada, the…
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Deadly flash flooding due to sudden heavy rains has inundated India’s capital, replacing one of the worst heat waves in Delhi’s history that sent temperatures soaring well above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit).
Environmental groups are calling on the federal government to avoid getting into a trade war with China over electric vehicles.They say they fear that trade sanctions could make EVs more expensive, delaying Canada's transition to a low-carbon economy.Less than a week after the federal government announced it was considering imposing trade restrictions on cheaper Chinese-made EVs, groups like Environmental Defence are urging Ottawa to consider the ramifications of such a move.Nate Wallace, Enviro
Section of the national highway in Chongqing had to be temporarily closed off after prolonged heavy rainfall caused a huge landslide.
Currently we're looking at rather changeable conditions with temperatures a little below average for the time of year although the South will be pleasantly warm at times. The middle of the week will bring some rather wet and windy weather and temperatures will nudge up a little ahead of the weekend.
Moscow on Monday claimed to have captured two more villages in eastern Ukraine, but acknowledged that tens of thousands of people in Russia's border areas were affected by power outages caused by Kyiv's drone attacks. The tiny village lies in an area of the front -- northwest of occupied Avdiivka -- where Moscow has claimed almost every week this summer to have captured a new settlement.
Ferocious storms and torrential rains that lashed France, Switzerland and Italy this weekend have left at least seven people dead, local authorities said on Sunday.Three people died after torrential rains triggered a landslide in southeastern Switzerland, police in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino said Sunday.Elsewhere in Switzerland, a man was found dead in a hotel in Saas-Grund in the southwest canton of Valais, police said, adding that he was probably taken by surprise by a sudden rapid rise in floodwater.Images published in the online publication 20minuten showed parts of the town covered in a thick layer of mud and rocks.Another man is also missing in Valais, police said.In France, three people in their 70s and 80s died in the northeastern Aube region on Saturday when a falling tree crushed the car they were travelling in, the local authority told AFP.A fourth passenger was in critical care, it added.Switzerland's civil security services said "several hundred" people were evacuated in the southern canton of Valais and roads closed after the Rhone and its tributaries overflowed in different locations.The situation in Valais was "under control" Sunday, Frederic Favre, the official responsible for civil security, told a press conference, but he warned that it would remain "fragile" for the next several days.Emergency services were assessing the best way to evacuate 300 people who had arrived for a football tournament in the mountain town of Peccia, while almost 70 more were being evacuated from a holiday camp in the village of Mogno.The poor weather was making rescue work particularly difficult, police had said earlier, with several valleys in the southern cantons of Ticino and Valais near the border with Italy, inaccessible and cut off from the electricity network.In Ticino, some 400 people -- including 40 children from a holiday camp -- had to be evacuated from risk areas and taken to civil protection centres. The federal alert system also said part of the canton was without drinking water.Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis, who is from Ticino, said the repeated disasters "have touched us deeply".It's the worst flooding experienced in the canton since 2000 when 13 people were killed in a mudslide which destroyed the village of Gondo.Scientists say climate change driven by human activity is increasing the severity, frequency and length of extreme weather events such as floods and storms.- Italy flooding -In northern Italy, Piedmont and the Aosta Valley also suffered flooding and mudslides, though no deaths were reported.Firefighters in Piedmont announced Sunday morning that they had carried out 80 operations to rescue people in difficulty.A mudslide temporarily blocked a regional road to the ski resort of Cervinia in the Aosta Valley, a semi-autonomous region located along the border with France and Switzerland. A river which burst its banks caused significant damage to the centre of the town where several streets were flooded.A mudslide blocked access to Cogne, a village of 1,300 people in the Aosta Valley, where 90 millimetres of rainfall was recorded in a six-hour period on Saturday.At the European football championships in Germany, a match between Germany and Denmark Saturday evening was interrupted for almost half an hour because of heavy rain and lighting. bur-vog/cls/db/gv
An "extremely dangerous" storm is approaching the southeast Caribbean amid urgent pleas from government officials for people to take shelter. Hurricane Beryl is expected to hit the Windward Islands on Monday morning. Hurricane warnings were in effect for Barbados, St. Lucia, Grenada, Tobago and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
A motorist found himself caught in the middle of a strange weather phenomenon while driving through Lake Los Angeles, California, on June 21. Mesmerizing footage saw hundreds of tumbleweeds taking to the air as the wind picked up and began to spiral into a spectacular 'tumbleweed tornado'.
The Brazilian Amazon recorded 13,489 wildfires in the first half of the year, the worst figure in 20 years, satellite data revealed Monday.The situation is worrisome as the height of the wildfires season is normally in the second half of the year, especially in September, when weather is at its most dry.
Hurricane Beryl broke records as the earliest Category 4 storm recorded in the Atlantic
Hurricane Beryl could increase to a Category 5 as it passed through the eastern Caribbean
Dimly lit and stuffy classrooms stir with life every morning as children file in. It's a reality for many schoolchildren across Nigeria, where many buildings don't have access to the national electricity grid. In Excellent Moral School in Olodo Okin in Ibadan, “the entire community is not connected, including the school,” said school founder Muyideen Raji.
China's solar and wind energy sector will continue to grow at breakneck speed this year, providing the momentum the country needs to meet its 2030 renewable targets six years ahead of schedule, according to a state-owned researcher's forecasts. The country will add 70 gigawatts (GW) of installed wind power capacity and 190GW of solar capacity by the end of 2024, said a new report by the China Renewable Energy Engineering Institute (CREEI), a research body under the the National Energy Administra