Weather-related disasters are exponentially increasing. In fact, two-thirds of Europe could be affected by an extreme weather event by 2100, according to a study published in the Lancet Planetary Health journal on 4 August. In the 72 hours since, this years worlds strongest storm , Typhoon Noru pounded Central Japan, causing more than 400 flights to get cancelled.Landslides crippled Northern Italy and Southwest China following extended heatwaves Meanwhile, wildfires raged in Western Greenland, an occurrence so rare that The European Union Earth Observation Programme has no data on similar activity in this region. At this time, this appears to be unprecedented.
The local authority mobilized more than 700 firefighters and staff members from the civil affairs administration and the public security to conduct emergency rescue.
The local authority mobilized more than 700 firefighters and staff members from the civil affairs administration and the public security to conduct emergency rescue.
The local authority mobilized more than 700 firefighters and staff members from the civil affairs administration and the public security to conduct emergency rescue.
A heatwave nicknamed Lucifer is making Europe sweat. Temperatures of more than 40 degrees Celsius were reached in southern and eastern Europe. The highest grade red weather warnings were issued for 10 countries.
Global temperature is likely to rise more than 2°C by 2100, and we have only a 5% chance of avoiding the temperature rise, according to a new study.
The announcement comes as part of the governments £3bn ($3.9bn) clean air strategy. Air pollution is thought to shorten the lives of around 40,000 people per year.
Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola said on July 25 that large transfer fees are here to stay as he spoke about the money the club has had to pay for their new signings.City have spent around £120 million ($156.35 million) on buying three new full backs in 10 days.
The US Geological Survey said at around 1.30am local time on Friday morning (21 July) a magnitude 6.7 quake struck 10km south of the Turkish city of Bodrum and 16km north-east of Kos, Greece, areas popular with British tourists. The European quake agency EMSC reported the prospect of a small tsunami. However, this was downplayed by Turkish officials who said large waves, rather than a tsunami, were expected.
By 2050, were set to have tipped 35,000 Empire State Buildings worth of plastic waste into landfills, the countryside, wilderness and oceans. The first global study on plastic waste has found that 80% of it is chucked out without being recycled.
Flash flooding sent water rushing through the streets after severe thunderstorms hit the Cornish village of Coverack on Tuesday, July 18.An elderly couple was rescued from the roof of a house. According to the Mullion Fire Station, firefighters from Mullion and Cornwall Fire and Rescue worked together with the coastguard to airlift the couple from the roof of their home, after they had become trapped by the floods.
A study published in the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has concluded that 30% of the 27,600 terrestrial vertebrate species evaluated are losing populations. According to Gerardo Ceballos, study co-author and Ecology professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, if this trend continues, at the end of the century 70% of these species would be lost.
The U.S. president admitted that the government will probably let Obamacare fail after the latest effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act collapsed.
The decision to leave the reef off of the list is a big political win for the Australian government, who have come under criticism for their management of the lucrative tourist attraction.
Watch iridescent snakes, sloths and a kaleidoscope of butterflies as indigenous Ecuadorian guide Kamanja Panashekung takes you through the Amazon rainforest, to explain why conservation of the lungs of the planet matters.
