The powerful storm is on a path toward hitting Luzon, the country’s largest and most populous island, on Saturday.
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The Sound of One Shrimp Snapping
How climate change is altering nature’s sonic landscape.
Australia’s Record Heat Means Another Blow to Great Barrier Reef
For the third time in five years, abnormally warm water has caused a “mass bleaching” of coral, and some of it will not survive. Scientists say global warming is killing reefs worldwide.
The Fires Are Out, but Australia’s Climate Disasters Aren’t Over
Devastating floods came soon after the bush fires. Scientists call it “compound extremes,” as one catastrophe intensifies the next.
Storm Dennis Blows Ghost Ship to Ireland
A derelict cargo ship, abandoned near Bermuda and last spotted months ago in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, washed ashore near a tiny fishing village.
Britain Battered as ‘Weather Bomb’ Brings Landslides and Travel Chaos
Fast on the heels of another big storm, Dennis has caused flooding and misery for the second straight weekend.
In Australia’s Most Populous State, ‘All Fires Are Contained’
Wildfires that raged for months during a summer of extreme weather are finally under control or gone altogether in New South Wales.
Storm Ciara, or Sabine, Leaves 5 Dead in Europe
A powerful winter storm battered Europe on Sunday, leaving power outages, transportation chaos and at least five deaths in its wake.
Antarctica Sets Record High Temperature: 64.9 Degrees
“This is the foreshadowing of what is to come,” a researcher said. “It’s exactly in line of what we’ve been seeing for decades.”
Australia’s West Coast Braces for Tropical Cyclone Damien
The storm could thrash small towns with winds of up to 140 miles per hour, a meteorologist said.