Ambulances in Tulsa and Oklahoma City have taken dozens of patients to hospitals with heat exhaustion or heat stroke, and seen a significant increase over previous summers.
The evidence of climate change causing or contributing to extreme weather events and natural disasters around the world is mounting daily, threatening the lives and jobs of hundreds of millions of people, according to scientists and analysts.
Days before a glacier in the Italian Dolomites broke off with the force of a collapsing skyscraper, crushing at least nine hikers under an avalanche of ice, snow and rock, Carlo Budel heard water running under the ice. “I heard what sounded like a river’s torrent,” said Budel, who lives in an isolated refuge next to the glacier on the 11,000-foot Marmolada mountain. At the
After a deadly glacial collapse in the Italian Alps that killed at least nine people, experts want to see more done to prevent a similar disaster from happening in the Rockies.