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October 16, 2024 9:04 PM
The world is on the brink of a new age of electricity with fossil fuel demand set to peak by the end of the decade, meaning surplus oil and gas supplies could drive investment into green energy, the International Energy Agency said on Wednesday. But in a release accompanying its annual World Energy...
October 16, 2024 10:15 AM
Heavy rain continued to lash Chennai and other parts of Tamil Nadu on Wednesday, bringing residential neighborhoods and roads under knee-deep water and leading to traffic congestion besides affecting public transport services. Visuals from the city show incessant rainfall leading to waterlogging in...
October 15, 2024 4:05 PM
When floods ripped through parts of Europe in September, the scale of the destruction took people by surprise. The intense rains should not have, because those had been predicted by sophisticated forecasting systems enhanced with artificial intelligence. But forewarned did not mean forearmed. Thoug...
October 15, 2024 12:40 PM
The likelihood of a La Nina weather event in coming months has decreased, Australia's weather bureau said on Tuesday, adding that if the phenomenon did appear, it would be weak and short-lived. The development of La Nina and its opposite, El Nino, are of huge importance to global agriculture, with ...
October 15, 2024 12:42 PM
Heavy rain continued to lash Chennai, disrupting normal life and leading to waterlogging and traffic congestion in the state capital on Tuesday morning. Visuals showed commuters clad in raincoats navigating roads filled with rainwater. Severe waterlogging was witnessed in the Koyambedu area of Che...
October 15, 2024 11:07 AM
Rural communities in the Andes of Colombia and Ecuador are fighting to protect fragile high-altitude wetlands that regulate the area's water cycles, as sharp water and energy rationing hit both nations. Colombia and Ecuador -- both largely dependent on hydroelectric dams for energy -- have been bat...
October 14, 2024 8:20 PM
Recent floods and landslides in Nepal caused extensive damage to major highways and roads, with 55 bridges destroyed or severely impacted. The Department of Roads continues repair work, while traffic police are suggesting alternative routes to keep traffic flowing. In support of Nepal’s reconstru...
October 14, 2024 2:41 PM
Tiruvallur district in Tamil Nadu experienced severe waterlogging on Monday following heavy rainfall, with several areas of the city inundated. Local authorities are assessing the situation and working to mitigate the impact of the flooding, according to district officials. The India Meteorologica...
October 13, 2024 6:11 PM
Chris Fiore was supposed to be accepting delivery of new household appliances and furniture, replacing items that were swamped by Hurricane Helene just a few weeks ago. Instead, the resident of Siesta Key, the Florida barrier island town where Hurricane Milton made landfall this week, was using a b...
October 12, 2024 3:30 PM
Even greater efforts to strip carbon dioxide from the atmosphere will fail to avert climate change catastrophe as rising global temperatures threaten to cross a key threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), scientists said last week. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (I...
