‘The roar of Hurricane Melissa sounded like a devil’
Handout The family lost everything in the storm, including their 100-year-old home A British family who relocated to…
Arab region pushed to limits by climate extremes as 2024 smashes heat records
The World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) first State of the Climate in the Arab Region report paints a stark…
Environment Agency faces landfill tax bill worth millions to clear illegal waste | Waste
Millions of pounds in landfill tax owed to the government has to be paid by the Environment Agency…
How to Watch Back-to-Back Northern Lights This Week
NEED TO KNOW The northern lights may be visible on Wednesday, Dec. 3, and Thursday evening, Dec. 4,…
5 giant animals that roamed the Earth during the Ice Age
The Ice Age was a world locked in endless winter, where massive glaciers crept across continents and woolly…
For fossil fuel-dependent islands, ocean thermal energy offers a lifeline
Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) is gaining renewed attention as a reliable, 24/7 clean-energy option for tropical…
Storms in the Southern Ocean are producing more rain – and the consequences could be global
By Steven Siems and Zhaoyang Kong of Photo taken on Nov. 25, 2018 shows iceberg seen from China’s…
‘I couldn’t believe what I was seeing’
An amateur photographer in southern Spain captured something almost no one expected to see. Ángel Hidalgo managed to…
How decades of deforestation turned Asia’s floods into one of the deadliest weather events of 2025
Overlapping tropical storms and “intensified” monsoon systems have unleashed widespread devastation across Asia, with rescue teams still racing…
Emergency works under way in Pyrmont amid fears of harbour contamination
“It’s a difficult time of year to be having these kinds of impacts on the local community, but…
‘All being poisoned slowly’: Air purifiers offer only limited respite from India’s chronic pollution
BENGALURU (The Straits Times/ANN): When English professor Shweta Philip sleeps, she needs the reassuring hum of an air…
‘Everything else pales in comparison’
A major shift is underway in rural Indiana, where farmers are discovering that solar and wind projects can…