Environmental & Climate History

3+ hour, 46+ min ago   (264+ words) ZAGREB: About 500 people have been evacuated on the Croatian Adriatic island of Brac as a wildfire raged on the popular tourist spot famous for its white sand beach. Authorities sounded the alarm shortly before midnight on Saturday (Sep 13) as flames…...

3+ hour, 19+ min ago   (668+ words) Barcelona is a consolidated city. Seen from the air, it could seem like a completed city, with no room for new transformations. However, as pointed out by Bernardo Secchi, an Italian urban planner and thinker of the contemporary city, "the…...

10+ hour ago   (329+ words) An excavation project at a Bronze Age site could see the area removed from a register of at-risk historical locations, the government has said. Ancient remains at Flag Fen archaeological park near Peterborough are deteriorating because of degrading groundwater levels,…...

6+ hour, 56+ min ago   (564+ words) Heavy rain caused localized flooding in many areas. Heavy rains caused localized flooding on many roads and residential areas. In Loc An commune, some areas were flooded with water levels ranging from 20-40cm; in Phong Dien commune, some roads were flooded…...

7+ hour, 56+ min ago   (369+ words) KATHMANDU, Sept 13: The devastating Bhotekoshi flood has damaged 7,570 private buildings across five districts and displaced 32,963 people from 8,317 families, according to a joint assessment by the National Planning Commission and the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority. The severe flood…...

4+ hour, 46+ min ago   (284+ words) A wildfire raging a short distance from Spain's famed Costa del Sol beach resorts left two people injured on Sunday, emergency services said. The blaze broke out in hilly terrain outside Benahavis, an affluent village home to a large foreign…...

39+ min ago   (259+ words) Some 500 people have been evacuated on the Croatian Adriatic island of Brac as a wildfire raged on the popular tourist spot famous for its white sand beach. Authorities sounded the alarm shortly before midnight as flames threatened to get close…...

5+ hour, 51+ min ago   (258+ words) A former County Durham coal mine site that has been reclaimed by nature could be given official protection as a new Local Nature Reserve. The move would pave the way for the former Shincliffe Colliery site, which closed in 1886, to…...

15+ hour, 48+ min ago   (632+ words) SAPTARI: For 10 days, Nepali hydropower worker Sanjay Sah survived in darkness inside a flooded tunnel, drinking muddy water and losing all sense of time as he desperately prayed for rescue. When a disaster response team finally pulled him to safety…...

6+ hour, 7+ min ago   (682+ words) WorldAtlas Grand Mesa in western Colorado has a summit plateau of roughly 500 square miles, a tabletop broad enough to hold more than 300 lakes. Around the mesa, softer rock beneath its basalt cap has steadily eroded while the resistant summit has…...