The 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season has been an interesting one, with no landfalling hurricanes in the U.S., and Hurricane Melissa becoming the most intense landfalling hurricane in 90 years. FOX Weather Hurricane Specialist Bryan Norcross gives his expert analysis on the season as it comes to an end. With just over a week left of […]
Navin Singh KhadkaEnvironment Correspondent, BBC World Service Getty Images India is the world’s third-largest carbon emitter At this year’s UN climate summit (COP30), under way in Brazil’s Belem city, all eyes are on India – the world’s third largest carbon emitter. India has not yet submitted a key climate plan that countries are required to […]
The UN climate talks COP30 have been evacuated due to a fire breaking out inside the venue in Belém, Brazil. BBC journalists saw flames and smoke in the pavilion area before they were rushed outside where fire engines raced past. The UN said the fire was extinguished after six minutes and 13 people were treated […]
Brendan Hughes,Political reporter and Barry O’Connor,BBC News NI PACEMAKER/Press Eye Then First Minister Arlene Foster, Deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill pictured at a press conference on the 20 March 2020 shortly before lockdown in Stormont Castle, Belfast in relation to Covid-19 Some meetings of Stormont’s power-sharing executive were “deeply divided along political lines and beset […]
Vietnamese provincial police have released video of an officer saving a baby and mother from deadly floodwaters caused by unrelenting rain that has caused widespread flooding in the country’s central highlands that has claimed at least 41 lives. GIA LAI PROVINCE, Vietnam – Vietnamese provincial police have released video of an officer saving a baby […]
Jim Reed,Health reporter, BBC News and Yaya Egwaikhide,Health producer, BBC News BBC Dame Ruth May was England’s chief nurse from 2019 until she retired in July 2024 Nurses bore the brunt of the pandemic, with low staffing levels and difficulties accessing protective equipment, according to England’s former chief nurse. Dame Ruth May told the Covid […]
UKHSA’s Prof Susan Hopkins questioned over face masks at Covid inquiry. There is only “weak evidence” that high-grade face masks better protected health workers than surgical ones in the pandemic, the Covid inquiry has been told. Prof Susan Hopkins, chief medical adviser at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), said respirator masks – known as […]
Jim ReedHealth reporter, BBC News Getty Images The provision of PPE for healthcare workers is being explored in this part of the Covid inquiry (stock image) The chair of the Covid inquiry has refused an application from the UK Health Security Agency to keep the identities of two junior clinicians secret. Lawyers for UKHSA applied […]
Jim ReedHealth reporter, BBC News Prof Kevin Fong said he undertook an informal visit to one of the “hardest hit” intensive care units in the country Treating patients during the pandemic was like responding to a daily terror attack, the Covid inquiry has heard. Giving testimony, Professor Kevin Fong, spoke of staff he met during […]
Available for 34 days COP 30 delegates from around the globe are about to depart the Amazon city of Belem in Brazil. But not before some very important documents are drawn up. Camilla Born, former advisor to Cop 26 president Alok Sharma speaks to Tom Whipple about the scientific significance of the language negotiators choose […]