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Extreme weather events and rising seas are putting precious heritage sites around the world in...

No injuries reported as fire in Tracy destroys medical equipment warehouse and authorities investigate cause A fire at a 1m sq ft warehouse complex was burning out of control in California early Friday as authorities fought to tamp the large blaze and began investigating the cause. The raging inferno was pumping thick black smoke up in billowing clouds as flame and a red hot glow were visible ben…

President Trump is trying to downsize the U.S Forest Service and eliminate wildfire and smoke research as the American West is facing a potentially epic summer fire season.

Projected number of properties highly likely or extremely likely to be affected by clay shrink-swell due to climate change compared with London boroughs at greatest risk of being affected by 2070. BGS © UKRI 2026.

Experts said the El Nino, a natural warming cycle, should further heat a globe already warming from fossil fuel pollution and will likely turbocharge extreme weather across the planet

Nature Water, Published online: 11 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s44221-026-00658-1 Coastal urban areas are increasingly threatened by sea-level rise and extreme weather, necessitating hard-engineering solutions such as storm-surge barriers. Here the authors examine the Mo.S.E. barriers in Venice Lagoon, revealing that while they are effective for urban flood protection, they compromise wetland resilien…

Under US rules, even a distant strike can suspend a game – and some will take place in Florida, the thunderstorm state Hot weather will be a major concern at the World Cup, but lightning may also prove a particular problem. Under US safety regulations, a strike within 10 miles (16km) of a stadium triggers a 30-minute suspension of the game, during which players must leave the pitch. The size of t…

In around a century, Wellington’s 1-in-100 year coastal floods have become roughly a twice-per-year occurrence, a new study shows. The researchers […] The post Wellington’s seaside flooding outpaces global average – Expert Reaction appeared first on Science Media Centre .

Wildfires, and the costs of fighting them, are projected to increase in the western United States, particularly the Northwest, research suggests. Credit: Kari Greer, USDA Forest Service/Flickr , Public Domain

Bursting the Academic Bubble: Why Scientists Must Bridge the Gap Between Research and Policy Jelis J. Sostre Cortés, AGU-sponsored CASE workshop participant and PhD candidate at the Georgia Institute of Technology As someone who was born and raised in Puerto Rico, I have been exposed to countless natural hazards. I have witnessed firsthand how a disconnect between scientists and policymakers can …

Scientific Data, Published online: 09 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41597-026-07511-w FFEM-DB 2.0: an updated and extended spatio-temporal dataset of flood fatalities occurred from 1980 to 2024 in the Euro-Mediterranean region

A failure in a coastal cliff at Sitio Buhangin, Barangay Patuco, Sarangani following the 8 June 2026 earthquake near Mindanao. Image tweeted by Radyo Pilipinas.

A thorough reexamination of scientific data has revealed that the rate of sea-level rise is...

Jonathan Rinderknecht is accused of starting the blaze that became Los Angeles’s deadliest and destructive wildfire The trial of a 29-year-old charged with sparking a wildfire that went on to become the deadly Palisades inferno, the most destructive blaze in Los Angeles history, is set to begin on Monday in a case that has gripped the city as Angelenos seek answers more than a year after the dead…

Wildlife department says drought conditions and water released from dam led to ‘major fish kill’ at San Carlos Lake Arizona officials have indefinitely closed a popular lake to visitors after its entire population of fish died recently. The recreation and wildlife department that maintains San Carlos Lake said in a Facebook statement on Friday that drought conditions as well as water released fro…

Initial Pager map of landslide hazard from the 8 June 2026 earthquake offshore Mindanao in the Philippines. Source: USGS.

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake shook the Mindanao region in the southern Philippines, and a tsunami was possible on some coasts. But there was no threat to Hawaii or the U.S. mainland.

npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, Published online: 06 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41612-026-01450-4 Wildfires destabilize permafrost critical zones in northern high latitudes

It is mid-Summer in the Southern Hemisphere Massive iconic iceberg turns blue and is "on the verge of complete disintegration," NASA says https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iceberg-a23a-turns-blue-verge-of-complete-disintegration-nasa/ ... Read more

A rapidly intensifying super typhoon sent giant atmospheric ripples skyward, revealing a hidden connection between extreme weather and near-space. In April 2026, Super Typhoon Sinlaku swept across the North Pacific, bringing torrential rain and flooding to parts of the Mariana Islands. The storm intensified into a “violent typhoon,” the highest category used by the Japan [...]