Cities across Africa face threat of landslides like Sierra Leone.
Threat worsening as rainfall, deforestation increaseBy Edward McAllister
DAKAR, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Natural and human factors made Sierra Leone's capital vulnerable to a landslide...
Portugal faces dire drought, the worst in more than 20 years.
Portugal's Pego do Altar reservoir looks like disused quarry now, its bare, exposed slopes rising up steeply on each side and shimmering in the...
The new normal: Super storms highlight importance of disaster planning.
Harvey. Irma. Maria. The hurricane season’s super-charged storms have highlighted the importance of disaster planning, and the aftermath offers a fresh lesson in just...
Romans threatened with water rationing as Italy's heatwave drags on.
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Half of capital’s 3 million residents could have water switched off for eight hours a day after Italy’s driest spring for 60 years
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Most Floridians see link between hurricane activity, climate change, survey finds.
Lake Jesup is part of the St. Johns River, the state's longest river. The river flooded after Irma. Photo by Amy Green
Most Floridians...
After hurricanes, climate change resurfaces in Washington.
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Residents make their way along Pine Cliff Drive near the Addicks Reservoir during flooding from...
Hurricane Harvey was a natural disaster, but a man-made catastrophe that will hurt the...
Kimberley Sowell and her family had been rescued just a couple of hours earlier and she seemed anxious, sad and exhausted.
For two days they...
Climate change expected to fuel larger forest fires – if it hasn't already.
Global warming will likely heighten the risk of large, more difficult to control wildfires scorching the western United States.
It’s the main conclusion of a...
Boiling frogs again.
There is a warning that parts of South Asia may become uninhabitable by the year 2100, a mere 82 years away
Study makes startling revelations...
Extreme weather threatens Cameroon's hopes of becoming a cocoa giant.
"The rains now come in any order," says one farmer. "I am almost giving up cocoa farming"By Elias Ntungwe Ngalame
BUEA, Cameroon, June 7 (Thomson...
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