Thanks to climate change, hurricanes are getting stronger and bigger, and if Hurricane Helene is any indication, they will cause more damage once they make their way inland than they ...
A Disney cruise ship is currently stuck at sea as a result of Hurricane Helene. Disney’s Fantasy had to skip over its scheduled stop at Grand Cayman, the largest of ...
On January 1, 2025, the state of Minnesota will implement a sweeping ban on products that contain PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as “forever chemicals.” The legislation ...
Banks aren’t the most trustworthy institutions in the world, so take whatever they say with a grain of salt. But if Dutch banking giant ING is to be believed, then ...
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KATHMANDU, Nepal—When Kumar Paudel turned on the TV in August 2016 and saw former Prime Minister Kirti Nidhi Bista giving an interview from his home, it wasn’t the content of ...
Typhoon Yagi made landfall on Saturday night, arriving as one of the most powerful storms in Vietnam’s history. Yagi has caused damage, flooding, and landslides along with significant loss of ...
In Western markets, large SUV and pickup truck sales have hit new highs. “f SUVs were a country, they would be the world’s fifth-largest emitter of CO2,” Patrick Schröder wrote ...
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at one of the strongest storms to ever hit Japan, Israeli raids shifting focus in the West Bank, and Germany enacting tougher ...
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at a deadly typhoon in the Indo-Pacific, Russian and Chinese warplanes near North America, and Ethiopia’s devastating landslides. Welcome back to World ...