Science & Environment
China, Taiwan brace for impact as super typhoon Doksuri nears
China urged fishing boats to seek shelter and farmers to speed up their harvest while Taiwan suspended annual military drills as super ...‘Heat storm’ stretches into southern Europe, health alerts issued
Italy issued hot weather red alerts for 16 cities on Sunday, with meteorologists warning that temperatures will hit record highs across southern ...South Korea landslides, floods kill more than 20, over 4,000 evacuated
Twenty-two people have died, 14 were missing and thousands evacuated in South Korea as of Saturday, according to ministry data, as a third ...Cerberus heatwave threatens new record temperatures for Europe
Southern Europe sweltered under a fierce heatwave on Thursday, with a warning that temperatures could hit record highs for the continent next ...Heat wave in Mexico leaves at least 100 dead
At least 100 people have died over the past two weeks in Mexico due to heat-related causes as temperatures climbed close to ...Iran’s Khamenei says ‘nothing wrong’ with a nuclear deal with West
Iran’s supreme leader on Sunday said a deal with the West over Tehran’s nuclear work was possible if the country’s nuclear infrastructure ...Millions in Washington and eastern U.S. under harmful haze as smoke persists
The U.S. capital was shrouded in a haze of smoke on Thursday, as hundreds of Canadian wildfires continued to push clouds of ...Canadian wildfires prompt new evacuations, alarm over air quality
Firefighters battled hundreds of forest blazes on Wednesday as Canada’s worst-ever early season wildfires prompted the evacuation of thousands and a blanket ...Mexican volcano near capital spews more ash, forcing school closures
Mexican authorities canceled in-person classes for more than 100,000 students on Thursday in multiple towns clustered around one of the country’s most ...More than half of the world’s large lakes are drying up, study finds
More than half of the world’s large lakes and reservoirs have shrunk since the early 1990s, chiefly because of climate change, intensifying ...