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USA – 5 Soldiers dead after Texas flooding (+VIDEO)
Five Fort Hood soldiers are dead and four are missing, the latest victims of an onslaught of flooding in Texas…
USA – Geological survey shows Alaskan wildfires ‘driving climate change’
The devastating rise in Alaska’s wildfires is making global warming even worse than scientists expected, US government researchers said on…
2016 El Niño ‘finally over’; leaving hundreds of millions hungry
The strongest El Niño in 35 years, which has seen long droughts, scorching temperatures, water shortages and flooding around the…
USA – 6 dead as historic Texas flooding worsens
Authorities in central Texas have found two more bodies along flooded streams, bringing the death toll from flooding in the…
Europe: More than 40 people struck by lightning; one killed
More than 40 people, most of them children, have been injured by lightning strikes, at a park in Paris and…
A storm, a rescue operation, and melting footpaths – Your Week in Weather Headlines
What a crazy week we’ve had! New Zealand’s weather news has been busy enough, with stormy weather, flooding, and nearly…
‘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…
