Earth yet again sizzled with unprecedented heat last month. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday Earth sweated to its second-hottest month since record-keeping began in 1880. At 61.89 degrees Fahrenheit (16.63 Celsius), last month was behind July 2016's all-time record by just .09 ...
Hot and dry weather stoked the wildfires burning across Southern Europe on Sunday as firefighters in Portugal and the French island of Corsica struggled to corral the flames. Over 4,000 firefighters were battling more than 250 wildfires in Portugal, which requested assistance from other European ...
Last year's global weather was far more extreme or record-breaking than anything approaching normal, according to a new report. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday released its annual checkup of the Earth, highlighting numerous records including hottest year, highest sea level, and ...
Evidence is piling up that this year's sizzling summer in central and southeastern Europe has decimated crops, drained rivers and hurt the animal world. As the drought's costs become clearer, temperatures in Serbia, Romania, Hungary and Croatia soared to nearly 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) ...
Climate change is affecting the timing of river floods across Europe and societies may have to adapt to avoid future economic and environmental harm, scientists said Thursday. River floods are among the costliest natural disasters worldwide, causing annual damages of more than $100 billion. They ...
Worries mounted Thursday for a 35-year-old Japanese climber who sent an SOS message after getting trapped in bad weather on the Mont Blanc mountain in France. The man posted a message on social media on Wednesday saying he was coming down from the 4,810-meter (15,780-feet) ...
A slow-moving but weakening Typhoon Noru, at one point the strongest storm in the world this year, approached Japan's main islands on Sunday, leaving two people dead and prompting evacuation advisories to be issued for hundreds of thousands of people. The typhoon may make landfall ...
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No wonder it has been dubbed "Lucifer." A relentless heat wave that gripped parts of Europe this week has sent temperatures soaring to record highs for several days, causing at least two deaths and prompting authorities to issue severe weather warnings. "It is just too much," ...
A month after torrential rains and landslides ravaged Fukuoka and Oita prefectures, Kyushu braces for the arrival of Typhoon Noru.
Europe's death toll from weather disasters could rise 50-fold by the end of this century, with extreme heat alone killing more than 150,000 people a year by 2100 if nothing is done to curb the effects of climate change, scientists said on Friday. In a ...
Residents of the U.S. Pacific Northwest were enduring sweltering heat on Wednesday as temperatures smashed records and hit triple digits in a region better known for rain and mild weather. Portland had a high of 103 degrees Fahrenheit (39 Celsius) on Wednesday, meteorologists said, well ...
