Bleached corals are seen in a reef in Koh Mak, Trat province, Thailand, May 8, 2024. This year so far the country’s weather recorded the highest temperature at 44.2 degrees Celsius affecting the seawater temperature as well. REUTERS/Napat Wesshasartar Purchase Licensing Rights
Flash floods from unusually heavy seasonal rains in Afghanistan have killed more than 300 people and destroyed over 1,000 houses, the U.N. food agency said Saturday. Floods in Afghanistan’s Baghlan province have killed more than 200 people, the UN’s International
April marked another “remarkable” month of record-breaking global air and sea surface temperature averages, according to a new report by the EU’s climate monitor published on Wednesday. French south-central town of Entraygues-sur-Truyère, during a heatwave in Europe, August 7, 2018. ©
Teams in flood-ravaged southern Brazil scrambled Tuesday to deliver humanitarian aid to Porto Alegre and other inundated municipalities, where queues formed for drinking water as forecasters warned of more downpours. Rescuers sail by boat looking for people at the Humaita
Europe endured a record number of “extreme heat stress” days in 2023, two leading climate monitors said Monday, underscoring the threat of increasingly deadly summers across the continent. Tourist adopting a T-shirt shelter near Rome’s Colosseum as Italy swelters in
Floodwaters trap cars on a flooded street in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Tuesday. Abdel Hadi Ramahi/Reuters CNN — A year’s worth of rain unleashed immense flash flooding in Dubai Tuesday as roads turned into rivers and rushing water inundated homes and businesses. Shocking video
The EU’s top rights court on Tuesday condemned Switzerland for violating the Convention on Human Rights through its inaction in the face of climate change in a landmark case brought by an association of elderly women. But the court rejected a
CNN — Blizzard conditions continued to slam Northern California over the weekend with damaging winds and heavy snow dumping on mountain ridges down to the valleys. Winter storm alerts remain across most western states, with blizzard warnings still in effect for the
Brutal winter weather enveloped much of the US on Tuesday and was forecast to continue through the week in areas, with forecasters predicting heavy rains in the east and several feet of snow for parts of the Pacific northwest. A
Azerbaijan’s ecology minister and former oil executive Mukhtar Babayev was on Friday appointed to lead the United Nations’ annual climate talks in a move that has sparked concern among NGOs and environmentalists who voiced similar worries over last year’s COP28 chair Sultan Al Jaber, chief of the United Arab Emirates’