Tag: Climate

QUESADA, Spain (news agencies) — Some much needed rain was not going to ruin Holy Week for Alfonso del Río Martínez and his fellow Christians in the southern Spanish village ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (news agencies) — Roads turned to murky brown rivers, homes were swept away by strong currents and bodies were pulled from mud during deadly flash floods and landslides ...

BEIJING (news agencies) — Xiaomi, a well-known maker of smart consumer electronics in China, is joining the country’s booming but crowded market for electric cars.The tech company will start taking ...

BOSTON (news agencies) — Thousands of hardy souls across New England spent Sunday digging out after a major weekend storm dumped more than two feet of snow in some areas, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (news agencies) — Heavy rains in Brazil this weekend have killed at least 23 people between the southeastern states of Rio de Janeiro and Espirito Santo. Espirito ...

KARACHI, Mar 23 (APP):U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Mission Director for Pakistan, Kate Somvongsiri, engaged with provincial leadership, government counterparts, and development partners to advance USAID’s longstanding commitment to ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (news agencies) — Brazilian climatologist Núbia Beray Armond for years had been sounding the alarm about Rio de Janeiro’s need for an extreme heat plan including water ...

JOHANNESBURG (news agencies) — For two weeks, Tsholofelo Moloi has been among thousands of South Africans lining up for water as the country’s largest city, Johannesburg, confronts an unprecedented collapse ...

CYWINY WOJSKIE, Poland (news agencies) — Piotr Korycki picks up a handful of wheat and watches as the yellow grains run through his fingers.All around him, grain is piled high ...

GENEVA (news agencies) — The U.N. weather agency is sounding a “red alert” about global warming, citing record-smashing increases last year in greenhouse gases, land and water temperatures and melting ...