Climate

PESHAWAR, Pakistán (AP) — Ocho personas, en su mayoría menores, murieron a causa de las fuertes lluvias y 12 más resultaron lesionadas en el noroeste de Pakistán, informó el sábado un funcionario. Las lluvias torrenciales en diferentes distritos de la provincia Khyber Pakhtunkhwa causaron el derrumbe de cuartos, aplastando a las personas en su interior, según Anwar Shahzad, vocero de …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Government scientists have cooked up a new concept for how to potentially cool an overheating Earth: Fiddle with the upper atmosphere to make it a bit drier. Water vapor — water in its gas form — is a natural greenhouse gas that traps heat, just like carbon dioxide from burning coal, oil and gas. So researchers at …

Las altas temperaturas en el Atlántico Norte y los mínimos récord en la cantidad de hielo en el océano Antártico observados el año pasado son mucho más graves de lo que supuestamente ocurriría en la Tierra con los niveles de calentamiento actuales. Se parecen más a lo que ocurre con un calentamiento el doble del actual, según un nuevo estudio. …

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — After back-to-back storms lashed the Northeast in January, rental properties Haim Levy owns in coastal Hampton, New Hampshire, were hammered by nearly two feet of water, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage and causing him to evacuate tenants to safer ground. “Put them in hotels and everything. So it was brutal, for everybody. …

Extreme wind and rain may lead to bigger and worse desert locust outbreaks, with human-caused climate change likely to intensify the weather patterns and cause higher outbreak risks, a new study has found. The desert locust — a short-horned species found in some dry areas of northern and eastern Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia — is a migratory …

Two climate activists on Tuesday targeted Botticelli’s masterpiece “The Birth of Venus” hanging at Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, attaching images of recent flood damage in the Tuscany region on the protective glass. Authorities immediately cleared the room and the two protesters were brought by carabinieri for questioning. Under a new law, the protesters risk up to six months of jail time. …

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Another potentially dangerous “Pineapple Express” storm was expected to hit California late Saturday, bringing the threat of flooding and mudslides over the next couple of days. Californians spent Friday and Saturday preparing for what forecasters are saying could be the largest storm of the season, with the worst expected to hit Ventura and Santa Barbara counties …

GUALBA, España (AP) — Con garrafas de plástico en la mano, Joan Torrent se adentra por una senda entre los árboles en busca de agua potable. Llena las botellas de 8 litros (dos galones) en un manantial y después las carga de vuelta a su casa en Gualba, un pintoresco pueblo cerca de Barcelona, que como muchas poblaciones españolas sufre …