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‘Extreme weather’ threatening more than 30 World Heritage Tourism sites
Extreme weather is becoming one of the biggest risks to World Heritage icons like the Polynesian Easter Island or Britain’s…
India – Watch the footpath melt in 51C temperatures (VIDEO)
A severe heatwave has set off new records in India, so much so that the roads beneath pedestrians are literally…
Sri Lanka: Rains continue to fall; more deadly landslides
Landslides and heavy flooding have killed at least 73 people in Sri Lanka, with scores more missing and hundreds of…
Australia: 60,000 without power as storm hits Perth
A wild storm that battered Perth and southwest WA had left more than 60,000 customers without power tonight and the…
3 storms, more fires, and another record breaker – Your Week in Weather Headlines
Most of our weather news this week has concerned the local stormy conditions that beset New Zealand, starting on Monday,…
Storms, storms and more storms – A Social Media Roundup of the week’s best pics, posts and vids
Each week we get a lot of viewer and reader posts, pics and videos – though this week was an…
Sri Lanka: Hopes fade for villagers missing after landslide
Heavy rains yesterday pounded the central Sri Lankan region where at least three villages have already been swallowed by mountains…
Canada – Alberta wildfire now ‘four times the size of New York City’ (+PICS)
The mammoth inferno devastating northern Alberta has now destroyed more than 877,000 acres — more than four times the size…
April breaks another global temperature record – makes 7 in a row
April was the seventh month in a row to break global temperature records, and climate scientists are yet again calling…
Australia: Sydney air quality ‘hazardous’ as city cloaked in blanket of smog (+PICS)
Hazard reduction burns over the weekend have reduced air quality in the Sydney area and light westerly winds overnight will…
