At least 8 dead in Nepal after an avalanche triggers flash floods
UDIN DHUNGA, Nepal (AP) — An avalanche of ice and rock triggered massive flash floods in Nepal on…
Texas wildfire forces evacuations even as Reno fire slows
Evacuations were being ordered Tuesday in rural Texas where a wildfire has ballooned in size, burning through ranchland…
Small village in France hit by tornado, 20 hospitalized
PARIS (AP) — A tornado ripped through a small village in southern France, damaging about 300 homes, destroying…
Indonesia steps up aerial operations to fight wildfires
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia intensified its ground and aerial firefighting operations Monday as huge blazes in central…
Newsom looks to shield utilities from ballooning wildfire costs
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The bookends of California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s nearly eight years in office have been…
Wildfire near Reno, Nevada, destroys more than 30 homes
RENO, Nevada (AP) — Crews have started to contain a wildfire in the Sierra Nevada foothills near Reno,…
The world inches closer to catastrophic climate events
NEW YORK (AP) — In the opening scene of American writer Kim Stanley Robinson’s “The Ministry for the…
Cyclone leaves 2 dead, thousands without power in Latvia and Lithuania
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Two people died and around half a million people were left without electricity across…
72 arrested in Indonesia on suspicion of starting forest fires
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian police on Sunday arrested 72 people suspected of starting some of the recent…
The sunhat is everywhere at tourist sites in Athens as Europe’s heat intensifies
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Outside the Acropolis, a sea of hats bobs up and down the hill to…
European wildfires reveal buried bombs and mines
ELSENBORN, Belgium (AP) — The wildfires burning across Europe this summer have exposed a potentially deadly threat lurking…
Hungary turns to water retention as drought empties lakes and rivers
GÁRDONY, Hungary (AP) — A fisherman disembarked from his boat in a small harbor on Lake Velence in…