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Climate change is turning snow to rain and raising risk of floods

28 June 2023

Warmer temperatures increase the amount of precipitation that falls as rain instead of snow, leading to more extreme rainfall in snowy places

An emaciated cow stands at the bottom of the water pan that has been dried up for 4 months in Iresteno, a bordering town with Ethiopia, on September 1, 2022. - The devastating Horn of Africa drought is set to get even worse with a fifth consecutive failed rainy season, the UN's weather agency forecasted, fearing an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe. Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are already going through their worst drought for 40 years and another poor rainy season is now highly likely, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP) (Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images)

Horn of Africa drought is set to become the region’s worst on record

2 March 2023

A sixth failed rainy season would deepen the long-term drought in parts of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia that has contributed to a devastating food crisis

2ND5P9N WASHINGTON, Feb. 15, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This video screenshot released by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) shows the site of a derailed freight train in East Palestine, Ohio, the United States. About 50 Norfolk Southern freight train cars derailed on the night of Feb. 3 in East Palestine, a town of 4,800 residents near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border, due to a mechanical problem on an axle of one of the vehicles. There were a total of 20 hazardous material cars in the train consist, 10 of which derailed, according to the NTSB, a U.S. government agency responsible f

Ohio train derailment killed more than 40,000 aquatic animals

24 February 2023

Officials reported that thousands of fish died within days of the chemical spill caused by a derailed train, potentially due to contamination of local waterways

An aerial view of the derailment in Ohio on 8 February

Ohio train derailment: What we know about the toxic chemical spill

14 February 2023

A train derailed and caught fire in eastern Ohio, releasing hazardous chemicals into the air, soil and water – and raising concerns about health effects for residents

Residents work to extinguish a wildfire in Chile

Wildfires burning in Chile are among the deadliest in country's record

7 February 2023

Fires in central and southern Chile, exacerbated by extreme temperatures and megadrought, have led to at least 26 deaths and burned more than 2700 square kilometres

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Ancient Chilean tsunami scared local people away for 1000 years

6 April 2022

A tsunami 3800 years ago devastated the coastline of Chile and encouraged hunter-gatherers to move inland, where they stayed for the next 1000 years

The wildfires and melting ice that science warned us about are here

15 January 2020

News reports of long-predicted disasters are starting to sound familiar. Scientists, too, must carry on repeating calls for rapid cuts to carbon emissions

Can trapped Thai boys be rescued by learning to scuba dive?

5 July 2018

Rescuers are trying to help get out the twelve boys and their football coach stranded in a flooded cave system in Thailand before the waters rise more. What can they do?

Guatemala volcano kills 75 as ash buries entire villages

4 June 2018

The Fuego volcano in Guatemala has exploded and spewed out molten rock and ash, killing at least 75 people in the country's most violent eruption for over a century

Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs caused massive global warming

24 May 2018

The asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago caused dramatic climate change, which could mean we are underestimating how much the planet will warm in the coming centuries