2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (551+ words) August’s sizzle also helped push the globe and the United States to swelter through the hottest Northern Hemisphere summer scientists have measured. Last month the world averaged 62.53 degrees Fahrenheit (16.96 degrees Celsius), which technically was one-hundredth of a degree Celsius more…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (380+ words) Anak Krakatau initially erupted for about 25 hours over the weekend, and it has since continued to erupt intermittently with explosions ejecting lava, ash and incandescent volcanic material from the crater, Indonesia’s Geology Agency said in a statement on Wednesday. He…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (273+ words) Firefighters relentlessly tackled wildfires throughout the summer, even in normally cooler and wetter regions in the north and Brittany, as France experienced one of its driest years ever. A historic fire devoured forests near Bordeaux and forced a quarter of…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (369+ words) Under a new rule proposed Friday by the Treasury Department, the Emirati branches of Banque Misr, Egypt’s second-largest bank, would be severed from access to the U.S. financial system. It follows Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s announcement this week of a…...

2+ week, 18+ hour ago   (370+ words) Her study looks back at El Ninos going back 900 years or so. Aggravating already nasty El Ninos “El Nino is the most violent aspect of climate variability worldwide, with effects ranging from local fisheries collapse, to widespread coral die-offs to…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (928+ words) Besides the money, which will be paid out over a decade, Meta has agreed to strengthen its age estimates to keep kids under 13 off its platforms and teens in age-appropriate accounts, enact a hard limit of two hours a day…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (432+ words) The 1,300 residents of Kandersteg, in Switzerland’s Bern canton, live amid a quintessential Alpine landscape of sharp peaks, white glaciers, steep green valleys and the distant sound of cowbells. But a catastrophe looms over the quiet village: a mountainside rock formation…...

4+ week, 18+ hour ago   (765+ words) Authorities issued a tsunami warning and urged coastal residents to move to higher ground, but later lifted the warning when Indonesia’s meteorological agency said monitoring showed no significant sea-level changes that posed a threat to coastal communities. Some smaller tsunamis…...

4+ week, 18+ hour ago   (759+ words) Authorities issued a tsunami warning and urged coastal residents to move to higher ground, but later lifted the warning when Indonesia’s meteorological agency said monitoring showed no significant sea-level changes that would pose a threat to coastal communities. The U.S....

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (266+ words) Before becoming a depression, Tropical Strom Chan-hom made landfall in southern Ibaraki prefecture late Tuesday. It was off the northern coast of Kyoto late morning Wednesday while moving away from the country, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The tropical storm…...