Extreme weather events are increasingly putting girls at risk, say rights groups, pointing to climate-displaced families marrying off young girls in exchange for money. Saima (name changed) was ...
The stronger the weather event, the more likelihood of power outages. Extreme weather is causing power grids across the country to fail -- sometimes at massive scales -- putting residents at ...
Camels, known as the “ship of desert”, can survive temperatures as high as 49 degrees Celsius and can go a week or more without consuming water ...
“Within our knowledge, this [heatwave] is basically impossible,” the late pioneering extreme weather scientist, Dr Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, told a press conference at the time. Since then, the Earth ...
The punishing heat hitting much of the U.S. this week, and the downpour that Hawaii is enduring, are just the latest in what has been a relentless drumbeat of extreme weather this summer.
Extreme heat and rain are formidable enough on their own, and it’s getting hotter and wetter with climate change. But combined, these conditions can bring on yet another foe: mosquitoes.