The biggest earthquake in Taiwan in at least 25 years managed to take nine lives on Wednesday and injure more than 900 people.
This amazing plant creates “forest-like micro-environments”, a ‘carpet’ of leaves that trap water and dust and nutrients, as well as carbon.
The managing director of Working on Fire said that 2023 was “the year of the planet burning, both figuratively and literally”.
While it is true that in the summer of 2016, a terrifying disease clawed its way out of the previously frozen ground, sending chills across the globe as the media rang the alarm over ‘zombie viruses’ coming from melting permafrost, this seems to be less of a concern to scientists watching the world warm.
The scientists expressed their alarm and fear for reaching this dire crossroads, warning that the climate crisis could threaten the lives of up to six billion people this century.
It looks like a total hellscape. If this doesn’t make people realise climate catastrophe is happening now, then I don’t know what will.
It is clear that this year has been our wettest in the last 10 years, but the Heritage Day weekend alone saw more rainfall than anything before in the province’s recent history.
The Western Cape was hammered by severe storms this long weekend, causing road closures, mudslides and stranding thousands of people.
Large parts of Europe resembles a post-apocalyptic movie as recent footage shows fires lapping at Italy’s Palermo’s international airport while two pilots were killed when their firefighting aeroplane lost control and crashed.
Move over, Mulan, there’s a new Disney princess here to save the day.
It looks like the word ‘unprecedented’ is here to stay, and this time it is in reference to the climate crisis.
The bad news is that flights are getting bumpier; there have been several reports of dangerous – and in one instance fatal – turbulence in recent months.
Deep wafts of wildfire smoke in Canada have been drifting around the region, swallowing whole cities in a thick, yellow haze like something from an apocalypse movie.
We’re searching for the light wherever we can.
Yeah, we’re talking about the weather and it is actually fascinating.
The Guardian has just called out the rich of Cape Town and beyond for their lush swimming pools, well-watered gardens, and clean cars.
That’s the alarming thing – as the climate crisis ramps up, we’re going to see more and more videos of terrifying tornadoes ripping into city after city.
The harsh lightning and thunderstorms began in the Mother City on Sunday night and continued into Monday, causing major floods and damage in some areas like Gordon’s Bay and Paarl.
Two shocking videos reveal the devastating extent of wildfires in the country.
The quality of Jo’burg’s air came under the microscope this week, after the city of gold erupted in pockets of 24-carat stench.
Somerset West remained under siege over the weekend, with emergency services personnel, animals, and private houses beginning to sustain damage after five consecutive days of fire.
The Doomsday Clock, established 75 years ago by scientists to illustrate the threat to human extinction, is ticking close to disaster.
Don’t let the ubiquitous and airy sounding “cloud” mislead you. Data storage is very much physical and creates a huge carbon footprint.
Climate Central has shown how Cape Town’s urban areas can expect to change in the event of increased temperatures, which can cause sea levels to rise substantially.
A new study suggests that a global societal collapse is very likely “within a few decades”, but there are a few countries that could keep civilisation afloat.
Firenadoes are the latest horror in the heat spell that has caused insane wildfires to blaze from California to Oregon.
‘Seaspiracy’ has been met with a fair amount of backlash. A few ocean-based experts have recommended other documentaries to watch for a more thorough understanding of the problems we face.
TIME has revealed its ‘Person of the Year’ for 2019, and I would suggest that many of us saw this one coming.
A new research paper reports that the world may have already crossed a number of climate tipping points, placing us in a state of planetary emergency.
Italy has declared a state of emergency in Venice following the worst flooding in more than 50 years.