Death toll in Jakarta flooding rises to 53; nearly 175,000 displaced
Nearly 175,000 people remain displaced in Indonesia's capital of Jakarta and nearby towns on Saturday after flash floods and landslides killed at least 53 people amid some of the heaviest rain since records began, authorities said. "The death toll has risen to 53 people, with ...
Team including Japanese researchers uses sea turtles to predict ocean temperature change
While measuring sea temperatures and predicting changes is key to long-term weather forecasts, a group of researchers have come up with an unusual way to improve the accuracy of prediction — attaching monitoring devices to sea turtles. The researchers released five sea turtles in Indonesia, ...
At least 50 people have died in Bangladesh as cold weather continues to sweep across the country, officials said. The country's lowest temperature this year — 4.5 degrees Celsius (40.1° Fahrenheit) — was recorded early Sunday in Tetulia, a border town in the north of ...
Lack of snow in, around Sapporo worries tourism officials, ski resort owners
Concerns are growing for tourism in Sapporo due to a serious shortage of snow in Hokkaido this year. Some ski resorts have yet to open, while organizers of the annual Sapporo Snow Festival are struggling to gather enough snow. "I've never experienced a shortage of snow ...
The death toll from Typhoon Phanfone's battering of the Philippines on Christmas Day has risen to 28, and will likely climb further, authorities said on Friday. The storm, with wind gusts of up to 200 kilometer per hour (124 mph), swept across remote villages and ...
Tourists stranded and at least 16 dead after Typhoon Phanfone in Philippines
Tourists were stranded on Thursday after a typhoon swept across the popular Philippine holiday island of Boracay on Christmas Day, killing at least 16 people in other parts of the country. Typhoon Phanfone, with wind gusts reaching 200 kilometers an hour (125 mph), tore roofs ...
'This is not our winter': Moscow temperatures hit 133-year high
Residents of Moscow are wondering where winter has gone as the highest December temperatures in 133 years deprive the Russian capital of its customary covering of snow. "This is not our winter," said pensioner Ludmila Biryukova. "It came from somewhere else." At a time when snow ...
Australia this week experienced its hottest day on record and the heat wave is expected to worsen, exacerbating an already unprecedented bush-fire season, authorities said Wednesday. The average nationwide temperatures of 40.9 degrees Celsius (105.6 degrees Fahrenheit) on Tuesday beat the previous record of 40.3 ...
Fierce storms in southwest France have claimed a third victim, authorities said Sunday, after a man in his 40s was found dead in his submerged car two days after going missing. Deputy district attorney Laurent Bidault blamed the death on the weather, adding that the ...
COP 25 climate talks have 'failed the people,' activists say
The U.N. climate summit in Madrid stumbled toward the finish line Sunday after marathon talks between countries exposed deeper divides than ever over how to enact humanity's plan to avert a global warming disaster. More than a day and a half after the negotiations were ...
The small French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte announced a red alert as Cyclone Belna closed in on Sunday, threatening the French department of quarter of a million people. The storm was expected to make landfall in Mayotte around 9:00 p.m. local time (1800 GMT), ...
Japan tops Global Climate Risk Index as extreme heat hits countries both rich and poor
The report says Japan faced “three exceptionally strong extreme weather events” in 2018.
