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October 11, 2024 10:53 PM
The brutal wind and torrential rainfall of Hurricane Milton that killed 16 people in Florida this week were worsened by human-caused climate change, a team of international scientists said on Friday. Global warming made wind speeds around 10% stronger and rainfall greater by between 20% and 30%, ac...
October 11, 2024 11:20 AM
The death toll from Hurricane Milton has climbed to at least 14 after another fatality was reported in Hillsborough County, which includes Tampa, according to CNN. A woman in her late 70s lost her life during post-hurricane restoration efforts when a large tree branch fell on her. The tragic incide...
October 10, 2024 4:07 PM
Sultan bin Ahmed Al Jaber, UAE's Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and COP28 President, today called on nations to once again "unite, act and deliver" at COP29 in Baku to build on the mandate of last year's historic UAE Consensus, which represents the "road back to Paris". The UAE Consen...
October 10, 2024 10:08 AM
Harsh weather is reducing wheat production in major global exporters, cutting inventories that have already been projected to hit nine-year lows, while fuelling a sudden surge in prices. Dryness afflicting suppliers from Russia, the world's biggest, to Argentina, is making food production vulnerabl...
October 10, 2024 9:39 AM
Hurricane Milton marched across central Florida on Thursday after making landfall on the state's west coast hours earlier, whipping up deadly tornadoes, destroying homes and knocking out power to nearly 2 million customers. The storm made landfall around 8:30 p.m. EDT (0030 GMT) on Wednesday as a C...
October 9, 2024 3:09 PM
Floridians on Wednesday had one final day to evacuate or hunker down ahead of the Category 5 Hurricane Milton, potentially one of the most destructive ever to hit the Gulf Coast of Florida. With more than 1 million people in coastal areas under evacuation orders, those fleeing for higher ground clo...
October 9, 2024 3:07 PM
Wine maker Csaba Torok, who grows olives on Hungary's warm southern slopes near Lake Balaton, believes his trees from southern Europe have found a successful new home as Europe's climate gets warmer. Torok, 55, got his first three small olive trees from Spain around 2008. Two froze to death the fir...
October 8, 2024 10:32 AM
The Category 5 Hurricane Milton was expected to grow larger on Tuesday as it threatened Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula on its way to Florida, where more than a million people were ordered to evacuate from its path. The densely populated west coast of Florida, still reeling from the devastating Hurri...
October 7, 2024 4:46 PM
Mohun Bagan Super Giant are out of the AFC Champions League Two after not travelling to Iran for a group stage match against Tabriz-based Tractor SC scheduled for Oct. 2, the day after Iran launched ballistic missiles towards Israel. The club's matches in the competition are now null and void with ...
October 7, 2024 3:10 PM
River flows around the world fell to all-time lows last year amid record heat, endangering water supplies in an era of growing demand, a U.N. weather agency report showed on Monday. Prolonged droughts cut river flows in large parts of North, Central and South America with the Mississippi and Amazon...
