Tropical Storm Alberto forms in southwest Gulf, 1st named storm of the hurricane season
MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Alberto forms in southwest Gulf, 1st named storm of the hurricane season.
MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Alberto forms in southwest Gulf, 1st named storm of the hurricane season.
The Antarctic ice sheet is melting in a new, worrying way not taken into account by current models of future sea level rise, according to a new study.
Soaring temperatures in Pakistan have led more people to head to hospitals seeking help.
New research shows that more than 5 million antelope cross South Sudan each year – blowing the world-famous Serengeti migration out of the water.
Should we beat them, or eat them? In this episode of Ocean Calls, we’re embarking on a journey to unravel the mysteries of invasive species in EU waters. They unsettle the delicate balance of marine ecosystems, so what can we do about them?
The warning from the county government was grim. The Rapidan Dam, a feature of the southern Minnesota landscape for more than a century, was “in imminent failure condition.” “We do not know if it will totally fail or if it will remain in place,” officials said Monday as dead trees and other debris piled up at the dam and floods overwhelmed the Upper Midwest. At one point, a support structure alongside the dam partly failed and gushing waters carved out a nearby cliff. Video footage showed a near
Earlier this week, authorities said the Rapidan Dam near Mankato faced an “imminent threat” of collapse but later said an abutment had partially failed. Authorities said the partial failure of the abutment was caused by the recent bout of heavy rain, but a past assessment of the dam revealed it was already at risk. The rush of water destroyed a power station and caused outages for about 600 households, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said.
Solar storm could bring extreme auroras, as well as ‘complete collapse’ of electrical grids and blackouts, NOAA warns
China's special envoy for climate change has called for expanded production of the country's renewable energy products, citing a strong global demand, in a sharp dismissal of overcapacity claims raised by Western economies. "[There are] only two groups of countries that are talking about so-called overcapacity. One is the United States, the other [is] the European Union," Liu Zhenmin told an international forum on Tuesday. "For the rest of the world, for international organisations including the
Scientists have discovered a new tipping point toward "runaway melting" of Antarctic ice sheets, caused by warm ocean water intruding between the ice and the land it sits on, according to a study published on Tuesday."Increases in ocean temperature can lead to a tipping point being passed, beyond which ocean water intrudes in an unbounded manner beneath the ice sheet, via a process of runaway melting," the study said.
Four decades ago, a rare earth processing plant on France's Atlantic coast was one of the largest in the world, churning out materials used to make colour televisions, arc lights and camera lenses. Its current owner Solvay is racing to return the plant at La Rochelle to its former glory after years of diminished output as Europe seeks to boost production of the minerals fuelling the green energy transition. The factory's 76-year history is a microcosm of the challenges Europe and the United States face as they seek to reverse massive migration of rare earth processing to China that took place around 25 years ago.
Heavy rains on Sunday followed by lighter showers on Monday were not enough to put out a peat fire burning near Foxley River.Environment Canada recorded 23.2 mm of rain on Sunday and another 4.2 mm on Monday, but it will take a sustained period of rain to put the fire out, said Mike Montigny, the province's manager of field services."Even with the amount of precipitation still the fire is burning deep into the ground. It's going to take a long time for it to be called out," said Montigny."It's s
SYDNEY — At large events all over the world, the scenes of extreme heat stress are starting to look familiar. Older men, shirts undone, lying down with their eyes closed. Aid tents packed with the unconscious. And lines of the faithful — whether they seek religion, music, ballot boxes or sport — sweating under slivers of shade. The consequences have been dire. At this year’s hajj, the Islamic pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, at least 1,300 people died as temperatures surpassed 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
A woman in Asheville, North Carolina, was not impressed to discover a black bear making itself at home right outside her back door.Video taken by Lindsay Eager shows the bear digging a hole next to a large oak tree in her yard.The bear can be seen squeezing into the hole to check out its handy work and resting its head against the ground, before climbing out again to dig some more.“Oh my God… He’s making a bed!” Eager says in the video. “He just made a damn bed under our tree.”Posting the video on TikTok, Eager said they have now filled the hole with eight bags of soil, after consulting an arborist who said it would cost around $5,000 to cut the tree down.“The bear has returned a few times but hasn
In the rare earths sector, the EU will struggle to meet most of its ambitious goals in new legislation designed to boost domestic output of critical minerals and reduce dependence on China. Below are some key companies working on rare earths, with production figures in metric tons per year. Neodymium and praseodymium (referred to in the industry by their joint elemental abbreviation, NdPr) are key rare earths needed to make permanent magnets.
It might not sound like enough money to pay for the necessities each month, but it's surprising how far $3,000 will go in some regions of the country -- especially in the southeastern states. Discover...
Wounded and wary, the young couple appear to be into each other: their arranged romance, years in the making, is aimed at preserving the rapidly disappearing harpy eagle, one of the world's largest raptors.One of the world's most powerful and largest eagles, able to hunt monkeys and sloths, the harpy eagle has been hunted to near-extinction in some parts of its territory in Central America.
Seen from the air, they ripple across the landscape — a river of antelope racing across the vast grasslands of South Sudan in what conservationists say is the world's largest land mammal migration. The country's first comprehensive aerial wildlife survey, released Tuesday, found about 6 million antelope. The estimate from the nonprofit African Parks, which conducted the work along with the government, far surpasses other large migratory herds such as the estimated 1.36 million wildebeests surveyed last year in the Serengeti straddling Tanzania and Kenya.
Flooding killed at least one person in South Dakota and another in Iowa
The mercury could reach 31C in parts of the UK on Wednesday... but this isn't expected to last.
No chance nuclear energy will be ready to replace coal-fired plants, market operator warns in report that says renewables construction should speed up