More than a quarter of California’s groves were destroyed by fires in Sequoia National Park and the area’s Sequoia National Forest, which also destroyed an estimated 500 huge redwoods some 200 feet tall and more than...
Read MoreThe burning pine trees approximately 10 miles (10 kilometers) from Priscilla Crespin’s home are the largest wildfire in the United States and the first to compel the 81-year-old to leave the small northeastern New Mexico...
Read MorePakistan’s minister for climate change, Senator Sherry Rehman, urged federal and provincial governments to take precautions to tackle the intense heat wave that has hit peaks of 47 degrees in parts of the country....
Read MoreA new study has noted that in years when the seasonal dry season is drier and warmer than normal, tropical trees are declining. The study was presented in Nature Geoscience journal. The results were a collaborative effort...
Read MoreThe results of the study were published in the journal Nature. Climate change has consequences on extreme weather events such as droughts and floods. Natural solutions, like the restoration of river catchments, require the...
Read MoreThe fires continued to blaze Thursday in the remote Owens Valley in eastern California, but fire officials said so far they had prevented any small communities from being damaged. According to California’s Department of...
Read MoreAnd there is no sign of easing of conditions which are increasing the risk of wildfires to very high levels. “There will be wildfires, the issue is how disastrous they will have to be,” Agriculture Secretary Tom...
Read MoreTimberlands are indispensable storage facilities of carbon on our planet. Standing forests additionally address the effects of environmental change. They ingest ozone depleting substances, manage water streams and shield beach...
Read MoreThe house fire in Philadelphia killed 12 people including nine children, but only one of seven smoke alarms functioned at the home. Twelve people, eight of them children, died in a fire when a five-year-old boy who survived...
Read MoreBritain is forecast to be battered by up to six more storms and sleet as the month ends. Britain’s third storm of the winter season follows devastating storms Arwen and Barra bringing blizzards and damaging gales earlier...
Read MoreThe record-breaking bomb cyclone which swirled toward the West Coast over the weekend with the magnitude of a hurricane is only the latest example of this year’s extreme weather events which scientists have linked to...
Read MoreWildfires in Northern California may have killed hundreds of redwoods as they swept through the forests of the majestic monarchy in the Sierra Nevada, an official said. The four have been flown to hospital and “while the...
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