by admin | Jul 9, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] By Associated Press CHICAGO: Natural disasters can be dramatic — barreling hurricanes, building-toppling tornadoes — but heat is more deadly. Chicago learned that the hard way in 1995. That July, a weeklong heat wave that hit 106 degrees Fahrenheit (41 degrees...
by admin | Jul 6, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] By Associated Press As a warming Earth simmered into worrisome new territory this week, scientists said the unofficial records being set for average planetary temperature were a clear sign of how pollutants released by humans are warming their environment. But...
by admin | Jul 3, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] By Associated Press BEIJING: Heavy flooding has displaced thousands of people around China as the capital had a brief respite from the sweltering heat. Beijing reported 9.8 straight days when the temperature exceeded 35 C (95 F), the National Climate Center...
by admin | Jun 30, 2023 | Top Stories
[ad_1] By Associated Press BANPUR (Uttar Pradesh): Siren blaring, Sunil Kumar Naik’s ambulance tore across a dry and rocky countryside blasted by dangerous midday heat, rushing to check on a vomiting and dizzy 30-year-old man with possible heat stroke. As soon...
by admin | Jun 29, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] By Associated Press A warming world is transforming some major snowfalls into extreme rain over mountains instead, somehow worsening both dangerous flooding like the type that devastated Pakistan last year as well as long-term water shortages, a new study...