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One dead, thousands hospitalized as sandstorm blankets Iraq again
May 06, 2022 02:36A sandstorm in Iraq has killed a person and hospitalized thousands more over respiratory ailments, the seventh in a month that also suspended flights for several hours.
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Raging wildfire in Arizona forces more than 2,000 residents to flee
Apr 20, 2022 12:22Firefighters face strong winds and bone-dry conditions as they battle a rapidly growing wildfire in central Arizona that has already driven thousands of residents from their homes and destroyed two dozen structures.
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Third dust storm in two weeks hits Iraqi capital of Baghdad
Apr 20, 2022 12:20Iraq is hit by its third dust storm in two weeks, temporarily grounding flights at airports serving Baghdad and Najaf and signalling the increasing frequency of the weather phenomenon.
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Snow storm leaves over 250,000 homes, businesses in US Northeast without power
Apr 20, 2022 10:18More than a quarter of a million homes and businesses in Northeast United States were without power on Tuesday after a spring storm packing powerful winds and heavy, wet snow swept across the region.
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The outrageous—and largely hidden—$5.9 trillion annual subsidy to the fossil fuel industry that is killing people
Apr 19, 2022 16:30Western governments have been heavily subsidizing their own fossil-fuel industries even as they exhort much poorer countries to do more to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. But the full extent of these subsidies has been hidden by the methods used to measure them.
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Death toll in Philippines from storm up to 121
Apr 14, 2022 09:14The death toll from the tropical storm that battered the Philippines over last weekend rose to 121, including 81 victims buried by landslides in central Philippine city, authorities said Thursday.
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‘Black carbon’ threat to Arctic as sea routes open up with global heating
Apr 12, 2022 14:42As climate crisis allows new maritime routes to be used, sooty shipping emissions accelerates ice melt and risk to ecosystems.
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At least five dead in South Africa floods, mudslides
Apr 12, 2022 08:18At least five people have been killed in floods and mudslides across South Africa's port city of Durban following heavy rains in recent days, authorities said on Tuesday.
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Study blames rich countries for 74 percent of world’s ecological harm
Apr 09, 2022 08:40New environmental research has blamed the wealthiest countries – led by the US and the European Union – for almost three-quarters of the world’s ecological damage.
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The cost of not acting on climate?
Apr 08, 2022 15:53Throughout this century, the crisis will accelerate unless we stop burning coal, gas, and petroleum now. It's not all or nothing, the question is: how bad are we going to let it be?