California El Dorado wildfire sparked by device to reveal baby's gender ~enviro Article 591 words 14 votes
2,000-year-old redwoods survive wildfire at California's oldest state park ~enviro Article 497 words 8 votes
California Governor Gavin Newsom: By this point last year, 4,292 fires had burned 56,000 acres. This year, 7,002 fires have chewed through more than 1.4 million acres. ~enviro Article 1509 words, published Aug 24 2020 7 votes
National Hurricane Center nailed track forecast for Laura within a mile and three days in advance ~enviro Article 858 words 9 votes
Record heat, unprecedented lightning fire siege in Northern California; more dry lightning to come ~enviro Article 1801 words 11 votes
Android is now the world’s largest earthquake detection network ~tech android google Article 707 words 7 votes
Beirut hit by massive explosions, killing over 135 people and injuring over 5000 ~news lebanon.beirut Article 219 words 37 votes
China blows up dam as death toll from flooding rises ~enviro energy.renewable Article 320 words 12 votes
Ancient Rome was teetering. Then a volcano erupted 6,000 miles away. ~humanities.history Article 2010 words, published Jun 22 2020 5 votes
California severely short on firefighting crews after COVID-19 lockdown at prison camps ~enviro Article 1428 words 9 votes
Risk of 40°C/104°F heat in the UK ‘rapidly increasing’, says Met Office—a temperature never before recorded in the UK could possibly occur as frequently as once every 3.5 years by 2100 ~enviro climate change Article 1066 words 11 votes
Hundreds of elephants dead in mysterious mass die-off ~enviro conservation Article 750 words 11 votes
Siberian wildfires swell amid historic heatwave, as highs of 38°C reported north of the arctic circle ~enviro climate change Link 8 votes
Iceland hit by thousands of quakes and threat of volcanic eruption – the island nation has experienced increased seismic activity in the past month ~science Article 438 words, published Jun 18 2020 10 votes
Overconsumption and growth economy key drivers of environmental crises ~enviro sustainability climate change Article 968 words 7 votes
Worst attack in twenty-seven years: Swarms of locusts destroy crops in several Indian states ~enviro Article 2036 words 13 votes
Pakistan plane crash survivor: 'All I could see was fire' ~news pakistan.karachi Article 750 words 6 votes
Sweden suffers one of its strongest earthquakes at an Arctic iron ore mine – quake measured magnitude 4.1 and forced the mine to close ~enviro Article 331 words 8 votes
The Hongerwinter: How famine under the Nazis revealed the cause of celiac disease ~humanities.history Article 1605 words, published Mar 29 2018 6 votes
RIP Captain Jen Casey -RCAF Snowbirds Public Affairs Officer that perished in crash today ~transport Article 1322 words 7 votes
2000-2010 drought in Upper Missouri River Basin driest in 1,200 years ~enviro climate change Article 420 words 7 votes
Famine is a choice. One billion people are now food-insecure. But starvation is not an inevitability ~food Article 1279 words 5 votes
The real Lord of the Flies: What happened when six boys were shipwrecked for fifteen months ~humanities.history Article 2744 words 32 votes
Experts knew a pandemic was coming. Here’s what they’re worried about next. ~enviro Article 173 words 16 votes
A well-known attorney helped land a $2 billion settlement for Gulf Coast seafood-industry workers. But who was he really representing? ~finance Article 7271 words 5 votes
Awakening volcanic region in Iceland could cause disruption for centuries – Reykjanes peninsula's last active period started in 10th century and lasted 300 years ~science Article 516 words 6 votes
Venezuelan patrol ship sunk itself after ramming a cruise liner with a reinforced hull ~transport Article 1186 words 9 votes
A major scorecard gives the health of Australia’s environment less than one out of ten ~enviro climate change Article 1338 words 3 votes
Floodlines - An eight-part narrative podcast thoroughly reassessing Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, fifteen years later ~enviro Article 133 words 4 votes
Two German tourists killed in Arctic avalanche – part of a guided snowmobile tour of the island of Spitsbergen in Norway's Svalbard archipelago ~enviro Article 198 words, published Jul 28 2018 6 votes
Train driver and rail worker dead after passenger train derails near Wallan, north of Melbourne ~transport Article 1017 words 5 votes
Celeste Barber’s $52 million bushfire fund has been held up thanks to legal wrangling ~enviro Article 376 words 3 votes
An open letter on Australian bushfires and climate: urgent need for deep cuts in carbon emissions [signed by Laureates of the Australian Research Council] ~enviro Article 1548 words 4 votes
Mt. Þorbjörn, Reykjanes – Icelandic volcano swell signals potential eruption ~science Article 495 words 4 votes
Why Australia's fires are linked to floods in East Africa ~enviro climate change Video 3:55, published Jan 17 2020 4 votes
In Paris, the rebuilding of Notre Dame is being shaped by history, myth, and Emmanuel Macron ~design architecture Article 2075 words 10 votes
Incredible, secret firefighting mission saves famous Australian 'dinosaur trees' ~enviro Article 588 words 5 votes
The Australian government has been forced to talk about climate change, so it’s taking a subtle – and sinister – approach ~enviro climate change Article 1167 words 11 votes
Iran admits it accidentally shot down Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 ~news ukraine iran Article 28 votes
The ecological devastation of the Victorian bushfires has been laid bare in a leaked report which warns some species are likely to already be extinct ~enviro Article 590 words 4 votes
A News Corp employee has accused the organisation of a "misinformation campaign" filled with "irresponsible" and "dangerous" coverage of the national bushfire crisis ~enviro Article 538 words 14 votes
Sweden's PM Stefan Löfven wants swift and complete probe into Iran plane crash ~transport Article 8 votes
Iranian missile accidentally brought down Ukrainian jet, officials say, citing early evidence ~transport Article 1105 words 23 votes