Two thirds of Chile faces desertification—president
Two thirds of Chile’s territory is facing desertification in which the bone-dry Atacama Desert grows by over a meter (3.3 feet) a day, President Sebastian Pinera warned Monday.
Two thirds of Chile’s territory is facing desertification in which the bone-dry Atacama Desert grows by over a meter (3.3 feet) a day, President Sebastian Pinera warned Monday.
China has pledged to hold local government leaders responsible for improving air quality, officials said, after heavy smog across China earlier this year stoked social discontent.
Warming ocean waters are melting the Antarctic ice shelves from the bottom up, researchers said Thursday in the first comprehensive study of the thick platforms of floating ice.
Barack Obama and Xi Jinping ended their first US-China summit Saturday, forging a rapport and policy understandings, if not breakthroughs, on North Korea, climate and cyber issues.
Rains are expected in parts of the Philippines due to a diffused tail-end of a cold front affecting Northern Luzon and intertropical Convergence Zone affecting Southern Mindanao, the state weather bureau said Friday.
That’s shorthand for daily 30-minute “time-outs” that Metropolitan Manila Development Authority authorized on Monday. Blistered by the sun, traffic cops to street sweepers may dash for the shade in shifts.
Australia’s weather went “on steroids” over a summer that saw an unprecedented heatwave, bushfires and floods, the climate chief said Monday, warning that global warming would only make things worse.
Sea levels are rising 60-percent faster than the UN’s climate panel forecast in its most recent assessment, scientists reported on Wednesday.
Six were reportedly killed, nine were missing and more than 10,000 persons were affected as tropical storm Ofel (international name Son-tinh) battered the country and moved away from the Philippine territory, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said Friday.
Hurricane Sandy claimed 11 lives as it tore across Cuba Thursday, leaving a path of destruction in the eastern part of the island, officials in Havana said.
A weather disturbance east of the country developed into a tropical storm named “Lawin” on Friday but the state weather bureau said it was still too far away to be felt.
Cloud-seeding operations over farming communities affected by dry spells in Bohol Province have been initiated by the Bureau of Soils and Water Management (BSWM) as part of the Department of Agriculture’s efforts to mitigate the developing El Niño in the Pacific.
Giant meat-flavored ice lollies for the tigers and lions and frozen fruit and watermelons for the monkeys: Rome’s main zoo is resorting to some resourceful methods to battle the current heatwave.
