Roads were closed and motorists were stranded on Saturday following unusually heavy snowfall in South Africa. The N3 highway connecting Johannesburg and Durban was particularly affected, with emergency services trying to reach people in their vehicles in portions where the
A Hopper barge is seen stranded on a sandbank at the Solimoes River, one of the largest tributaries of the Amazon River, during a Greenpeace flyover to inspect what the National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters
Wildfires continue to devastate Brazil’s vital ecological landscapes amid the country’s worst-ever recorded drought, with the latest – apparently man-made – fire engulfing the protected Brasília National Park in flames on Monday, and shrouding and the capital in smoke. A
Greece was battling a wildfire northeast of Athens on Sunday, with smoke covering parts of the capital in a haze, amid warnings for extreme weather conditions for the rest of the week. A wildfire burns vegetation along a road during
Chemical analysis of coral skeletons reveals unprecedented warming trend that could spell disaster for the iconic reef. Marine heatwaves are increasingly bleaching corals in the Great Barrier Reef off of Australia.Credit: Jurgen Freund/Nature Picture Library/Science Photo Library Earlier this year,
An enormous wildfire has grown by 8 sq miles an hour (20 sq km) as it spreads across parts of northern California. The Park fire, which started on Wednesday in a suspected arson attack, has burned more than 350,000 acres
Governments across southern Europe have issued severe weather warnings as temperatures soar past 40 degrees Celsius. The heat wave has already claimed the life of an elderly man in Albania, who was found dead in his farm south of the
Having survived the night as Hurricane Beryl tore across her idyllic home of Union Island with ferocious force, Katrina Coy was taken aback by the extent of the devastation which lay before her. Virtually every building on the island, which
CNN — The official death toll from this year’s Hajj pilgrimage has soared to almost 500 and the true toll could be more than double that as reports emerged that as many as 600 Egyptian worshipers perished on the route to Mecca
Mexico has registered 155 deaths associated with high temperatures since March, with 30 in the past week alone, the government said Thursday. A woman cools herself with a fan at her home on a hot spring day amid a nationwide