A look at Groundhog Day traditions and Punxsutawney Phil
The handlers of a groundhog named Punxsutawney Phil at Gobbler’s Knob in western Pennsylvania announced that he saw…
Climate change worsened rains, floods which killed dozens in southern Africa: Study
JOHANNESBURG — Human-caused climate change worsened the recent torrential rains and floods which devastated parts of southern Africa,…
Huge landslide leaves Sicilian homes teetering on cliff edge
ROME — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni visited a southern town in Sicily on Wednesday that has been left…
Netherlands ordered to protect Bonaire residents from climate change effects
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A court on Wednesday ordered the Dutch government to draw up a plan…
Warnings about searing heat kept crowds away from the Australian Open
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Parts of Australia sweltered in record temperatures of close to 50 degrees Celsius…
Australia swelters in a record heat wave as temperatures near 50 C
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Parts of Australia sweltered in record temperatures of close to 50 degrees Celsius (122…
Winter storm threatens millions with power outages and no heat
ATLANTA (AP) — Every morning this week, Newberry Electric Cooperative CEO Keith Avery walks into his office and…
Numbers show preparations for potentially catastrophic ice storm
ATLANTA (AP) — Millions of Americans from New Mexico to the Carolinas are bracing for a potentially catastrophic…
US House votes to lift mining ban near Boundary Waters Canoe Area
Congressional Republicans moved closer Wednesday to lifting a 20-year ban on mining near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area…
Americans brace for another snowstorm as ice threatens southern states
ATLANTA (AP) — With many Americans still recovering from multiple blasts of snow and unrelenting freezing temperatures in…
Warming Antarctic is shifting penguin breeding and stressing two species
WASHINGTON (AP) — Warming temperatures are forcing Antarctic penguins to breed earlier and that’s a big problem for…
Wildfires race across Chile, leaving 18 dead and forcing thousands to flee
PENCO, Chile (AP) — Wildfires raging across central and southern Chile on Sunday left at least 18 people…