Risk of mass deaths as heatwaves start to pass survivability threshold ~enviro climate change Article 838 words 48 votes
Summer of severe heatwaves predicted for Australia as Bureau of Meteorology declares El Niño ~science Article 986 words 23 votes
Growing fire risks, rising insurance costs, home owner concerns, spell opportunity for fire hardening and prevention industry ~enviro Article 878 words, published Sep 15 2023 6 votes
Utah officials sued over failure to save Great Salt Lake: ‘Trying to avert disaster’ ~enviro water Article 820 words, published Sep 6 2023 23 votes
Flooding in Libya leaves 2,000 people feared dead and more missing after storm collapsed dams ~enviro Article 966 words 6 votes
Texas paid bitcoin miner more than $31 million to cut energy usage during heat wave ~enviro energy Article 540 words 41 votes
The dead man’s gambit: The crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight 961 ~transport Article 8646 words 9 votes
Tempest over Texas: The crash of Braniff International Airways flight 352 ~transport Article 7174 words, published Sep 3 2023 6 votes
A deadly 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit near the historic Moroccan city of Marrakesh ~enviro Article 53 words 26 votes
Three big, bold ideas to douse the flames of a world on fire ~enviro climate change Article 1578 words 10 votes
Extreme heat can be particularly deadly for people with schizophrenia and other mental illnesses ~enviro climate change Article 3798 words 17 votes
As Hurricane Idalia caused flooding, some electric vehicles exposed to saltwater caught fire ~transport Article 591 words 14 votes
A wrong turn in fog off the California coast led to the largest peacetime disaster in American naval history ~humanities.history Article 12 124 words, published Aug 22 2023 8 votes
How a Japanese-run wastewater treatment plant in Mexico shamelessly polluted until the site was shut down ~enviro pollution.water water.waste Article 1771 words 7 votes
Machines can't always take the heat: How heat waves threaten everything from cars to computers ~engineering Article 1131 words 15 votes
Locals have been sounding the alarm for years about Lahaina wildfire risk ~enviro Article 2129 words, published Aug 18 2023 9 votes
As Idalia hit Florida, all of NOAA’s hurricane-hunting planes were grounded ~enviro Article 1255 words 9 votes
Migrant hunters in Greece show off captured 'trophies' after wildfire season ~enviro Article 944 words 12 votes
Famine in blockaded Azerbaijan Armenian enclave Nagorno-Karabakh. 'People are fainting queuing up for bread.' ~news azerbaijan armenia politics Article 1290 words 13 votes
In deadly Maui fires, many had no warning and no way out. Those who dodged a barricade survived ~enviro Article 2220 words 21 votes
Greece gripped by wildfires, national park threatened along with people and towns ~enviro Article 26 votes
Cruelty of chance: The Cerritos mid-air collision and the crash of Aeroméxico flight 498 ~transport Article 8086 words 16 votes
Mexican politician introduces bill to criminalize ecocide - only a few countries have such laws but more are considering it ~enviro Article 960 words 16 votes
Louisiana residents told to ‘get out now’ in face of sweeping wildfire ~enviro Article 517 words 11 votes
Volcanoes don't just erupt on schedule – but they have been in Iceland ~enviro Article 1255 words, published Aug 21 2023 7 votes
Italy impounds three rescue ships as migrant numbers soar ~news italy politics Article 496 words 25 votes
North American bison slaughter left lasting impact on Indigenous peoples ~humanities.history Article 1183 words 31 votes
Fukushima contaminated water set to be released into the ocean ~enviro pollution.water Article 889 words, published Mar 17 2020 13 votes
US intelligence assessment shows intentionally caused explosion crashed Wagner chief's plane ~news russia politics usa Article 891 words 26 votes
260 year old Crooked House pub catches fire and is demolished days after purchase by developer ~news united kingdom.himley crime Article 844 words 53 votes
Tenerife wildfire 'started deliberately' as blazes in Greece force evacuations ~enviro Article 620 words 16 votes
US Federal Emergency Management Agency funds run short - Vermont lawmakers lobby for emergency funding for flood damaged state ~enviro Article 1058 words 20 votes
‘They fired on us like rain’: Saudi Arabian mass killings of Ethiopian migrants at the Yemen-Saudi border ~news saudi arabia ethiopia yemen Article 1136 words 13 votes
Hurricane Hilary could dump over a year’s worth of rain on parts of the Southwest US ~enviro Article 37 votes
Canada demands Facebook lift news ban to allow wildfire info sharing ~tech facebook social media Article 228 words 51 votes
British Columbia declares state of emergency amid ‘devastating’ wildfires ~enviro Article 562 words 35 votes
Hurricane Hilary is expected to bring significant flooding to Baja California, southern California, and the southwest US ~enviro Article 3366 words 28 votes
Antonov’s curse: The crash of Sepahan Airlines flight 5915 and the story of the An-140 ~transport Article 7100 words 8 votes
Iceland's meteorological office declares volcanic eruption near the country's capital Reykjavík officially over – no activity has been observed for ten days ~enviro Article 308 words 14 votes
Despite years of Maui wildfire warnings, Hawaii Electric the Hawaii utility giant did little and spent more on lobbying than prevention ~enviro Article 1295 words 27 votes
A state official refused to release water for West Maui fires until it was too late ~enviro water Link 27 votes
The entire capital city of Canada’s Northwest Territories has been ordered to evacuate as hundreds of wildfires scorch the region ~enviro Article 31 votes
Power lines likely caused Maui’s first reported fire, video and data show ~enviro Article 2076 words 11 votes