South Korean farmers find potatoes ‘boiled’ in ground by record heat
Apples are suffering sunscald, where skin exposed to direct sun burns and discolors, and peaches are splitting
Remains of Nero’s Bridge emerge from Tiber River as Rome faces water crisis
The remains of an ancient bridge have been exposed in Rome’s Tiber River as weeks without rain caused water levels to plunge.
Relentless weather disasters wiping out local businesses
Lobster catch drops in US as crustaceans migrate to colder Canadian waters
Midwest braces for temperatures so low ‘your face will fall off’
The cold front will reach the Great Plains and parts of South as low as Atlanta next week, while a coastal storm may threaten the East Coast from the Mid-Atlantic to eastern New England.
Why Polar Air Keeps Breaking out of the Arctic
The polar jet stream, which marks the boundary between cold polar air and warmer mid-latitude air, can dip south from its usual perch circling the Arctic and bring freezing cold temperatures. The pattern is complicated by the overall warming of the Arctic, which is occurring at a faster rate than for other areas of the […]
At least 9 dead in ‘historic’ Kentucky flooding
All of Kentucky’s 120 counties reported flooding after being deluged with between 3-8 inches of rain beginning Friday night. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet described the impact as “historic.”
The Panama community that fled its drowning island
“If the island sinks, I will sink with it,” Delfino Davies says, his smile not fading for a second. The government has said they face “imminent risk” from rising sea levels, which are likely to render the island uninhabitable by 2050.
LA Wildfires Push California Insurance Market to Its Limit
Liability experts equipped with climate models had been uneasily eyeing such a scenario, realizing in recent years that wildfire now had similar system-crashing potential as a major earthquake to upend lives and destabilize California’s $10 trillion residential property market.
Drylands Now Make Up 40% of Land on Earth, Excluding Antarctica
An area of land nearly a third larger than India has turned from humid conditions to arid dryland in the past three decades. “Unlike droughts – temporary periods of low rainfall – aridity represents a permanent, unrelenting transformation.”