With the burgeoning El Niño now forecast to intensify significantly in the coming months, the “supersized” climate event will likely have an outsized impact on severe weather around the world, fueling heat, drought and flooding, among other extremes, the United Nations warned Thursday. “El Niño is being supersized before our eyes,” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said […]
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Europe endures its fifth heat wave this summer, 50% of continent in a drought – CBS News Watch CBS News Europe has been sweating through its fifth round of dangerously high temperatures since May. Ramy Inocencio is in London with more. Europe endures its fifth heat wave this summer, 50% of continent in a drought […]
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Wildfires raging in western U.S., Canada amid severe drought force thousands to evacuate
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Spokane, Washington — More than 40 large wildfires are burning in the West, fueled by severe drought, as over 100 blazes scorch parts of western Canada. The Bug Fire near Reno, Nevada, has burned more than 15,000 acres, getting dangerously close to homes and forcing thousands of residents to evacuate over the weekend. In Utah, […]
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Europeans face energy crisis as heat wave brings wildfires and drought – CBS News Watch CBS News The Danube River hasn’t been this low in over 200 years. Wildfires are scorching multiple countries in Europe. Less water means less nuclear energy generation, bringing an energy crisis. Ramy Inocencio details Europe’s heat wave struggles. Europeans face […]
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History washes ashore as Danube River dries up from drought – CBS News Watch CBS News The Danube River is at record-low levels throughout Europe, revealing sunken Nazi warships in Serbia and woolly mammoth bones in Bulgaria. History washes ashore as Danube River dries up from drought #History #washes #ashore #Danube #River #dries #drought