Medical preparedness advocate Dr. Joseph Alton shared tips on how people can prepare their families and their homes for fire weather. August 12, 2023. ORLEANS, Calif. — Three firefighters were hospitalized Friday after they were struck by a tree while battling a wildfire in Northern California. The trio were part of nearly 1,400 fire personnel […]
Getty Images Sewage discharge into rivers and coastlines has become a growing issue The government is preparing a “water revolution” that will halve the number of times sewage is discharged into waterways in England and Wales by 2030, the environment secretary has said. Steve Reed told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that the water […]
Voters fill in their ballots in the upper house election at a polling station Sunday, July 20, 2025, in Tokyo. Eugene Hoshiko/AP hide caption toggle caption Eugene Hoshiko/AP TOKYO — Japanese were voting Sunday for seats in the smaller of Japan’s two parliamentary houses in a key election with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and his […]
BBC Raquel Celina Rodriguez watches her step as she walks across the Vega de Tilopozo in Chile’s Atacama salt flats. It’s a wetland, known for its groundwater springs, but the plain is now dry and cracked with holes she explains were once pools. “Before, the Vega was all green,” she says. “You couldn’t see the […]
Here are the key events on day 1,242 of Russia’s war on Ukraine. This is how things stand on Sunday, July 20: Fighting Russian forces launched a missile attack on Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, killing two people and damaging “an outpatient clinic, a school and a cultural institution”, according to the central region’s governor, Serhiy Lysak. […]
Torrential rainfall on Saturday overwhelmed creeks and streams outside the nation’s capital, prompting the issuance of a rare Flash Flood Emergency and multiple water rescues in parts of central Maryland. BETHESDA, Md. – Torrential rainfall on Saturday overwhelmed creeks and streams outside the nation’s capital, prompting the issuance of a rare Flash Flood Emergency and […]
National Motor Museum, Beaulieu Blue Bird returned to Pendine Sands 10 years ago for the 90th anniversary of the land-speed record In 1925, on a beach in south-west Wales, the automotive world was changed forever. A car dealer named Malcolm Campbell and his 350-horsepower Sunbeam car named Blue Bird, hoped to use the seven miles […]
Attorney General Pam Bondi, left, listens as President Donald Trump, right, speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP After intense public pressure and criticism from lawmakers on both sides of the political spectrum, President Trump has called for a federal judge to release grand jury […]
A tropical wave far off the South American has caught the attention of the NHC, which has given the system a low chance of development over the next week. Tropical systems have been moving off Africa this season, but any development has been thwarted by dry air, including Saharan dust, high pressure, and in some […]
The boat carrying 53 people tipped over as Storm Wipha approached the country across the South China Sea. At least 27 people were killed after a tourist boat capsized in stormy weather in Vietnam‘s Halong Bay. The boat carrying 53 people tipped over around 2pm local time (07:00 GMT) on Saturday as Storm Wipha approached […]