Call it the bright side of the planet’s climate crisis. An extreme drought in Iraq helped a team of Kurdish and German archaeologists to uncover what is believed to be the ancient city of Zakhiku. Zakhiku had long been lost underneath the waters of the Mosul reservoir, according to a press release from the University […]
Unusual dryness has affected large portions of Europe so far this year, and a new report that analyzed the ongoing drought situation across the continent has revealed concerning signs in some of the region’s vital river basins as the summer months quickly approach. The report by the Global Drought Observatory (GDO) of the Copernicus Emergency Management […]
AccuWeather meteorologists report that there is a chance for a new tropical storm south of Mexico to redevelop over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico during the opening days of the Atlantic hurricane season. Forecasters expect Tropical Storm Agatha, which formed in the East Pacific early Saturday morning, to move inland over Mexico with torrential rain […]
Accuweather recently shared video of a dust devil spinning up a neighborhood baseball field in Florence, Alabama. According to reports, it was a mostly sunny day in mid May, and a youth baseball league was outside practicing when a tornado-like whirlwind seemed to appear out of nowhere, sweeping across the infield as if it was […]
It appears that the Southwest’s crippling drought has a morbid side effect: bodies long gone into the depths of what was once a deep Lake Mead are being revealed as the lake levels drop to historic lows. More human remains were found at Lake Mead less than a week after a body in a barrel was […]