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GENEVA: Earth has sweltered through its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer ever measured, with a record warm August capping a season of brutal and deadly temperatures, according to the World Meteorological Organization. Last month was not only the hottest August scientists ever recorded by far with modern equipment, it was also the second hottest month measured,
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SAN JUAN: Tropical Storm Lee formed Tuesday in the Atlantic Ocean and was forecast to become a major hurricane as it approaches the Caribbean by the weekend, forecasters said. The storm was located some 1,230 miles (1,980) kilometers east of the Lesser Antilles Tuesday night. It had maximum sustained winds of 50 mph (85 kph)
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New Delhi: More than 37,000 alien (non-native) species have been introduced by many human activities to different region around the world over the years and more than 3,500 of these are harmful invasive species, posing major global threats to nature, economies, food security and human health that resulted in the global economic cost of more
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The remnants of Hurricane Idalia were forecast to regain strength and become a tropical storm again over the weekend as it approached Bermuda, days after the storm made landfall along Florida’s Gulf Coast and swept across the Southeast. On Friday, the storm, which was once a powerful Category 4 hurricane, had weakened to a post-tropical
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HORSESHOE BEACH: Hurricanes and tropical storms are nothing new in the South, but the sheer magnitude of damage from Idalia shocked Desmond Roberson as he toured what as left of his Georgia neighborhood. Roberson took a drive through Valdosta on Thursday with a friend to check out damage after the storm, which first hit Florida
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PARIS: Climate change has sharply boosted the risk of fast-spreading wildfires, according to a Californian study published Wednesday that offers lessons for prevention after recent disasters in Canada, Greece and Hawaii.Scientists at the Breakthrough Institute, a non-profit research centre, found that human-caused warming increased the frequency of “extreme” wildfires by 25 percent on average compared
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Hundreds of wildfires burning across Louisiana have killed two people and burned through an estimated 60,000 acres of land, state officials said Tuesday as they warned that the dangerously dry conditions are expected to continue. The biggest of the wildfires, the Tiger Island Fire, in southwest Louisiana near the Texas border, has been burning for
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NIGERIA: Roaring chainsaws sent trees crashing to the ground, and bare-chested men hacked away at the branches beside a muddy road. Others heaved logs onto a truck, where they were tied in place with wire. The work was similar on the other side of the road, with a timber-laden truck coughing dark plumes of smoke
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Hurricane Idalia’s arrival on Florida’s Gulf Coast due on Wednesday signaled activity in the Atlantic’s hurricane alley might not be as quiet this year as meteorologists had once predicted. Scientists initially forecast in May that the U.S. would see a near-normal Atlantic hurricane season, but raised that forecast in mid-August, projecting a more dangerous storm
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The scenic vistas of the Himalayas once inspired imaginations of Shangri-La, a mythical utopia nestled in the clouds. Today, however, a much grimmer reality confronts these idyllic mountain landscapes. Tragedy after preventable tragedy continue to unfold across the region as entire villages and livelihoods are washed away in devastating landslides and floods. Behind the heartbreaking
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