Climate: Breaking News

Climate: Breaking News features brief overviews of natural and climate-related events across the globe. These video reports help viewers grasp the scale of unfolding events, connect local incidents to global trends, and better understand the critical role of real-time, up-to-date information for public safety, community preparedness, and international cooperation.

In Hubei Province, China, a rare EF2 tornado destroyed residential neighborhoods and industrial areas, claiming the lives of eleven people. In the south of the country, torrential rains exceeded the monthly precipitation norm by more than two times. In Spain’s Andalusia...

On the evening of July 6, eastern Hubei Province in China was struck by a powerful thunderstorm system. Torrential rain and destructive winds swept across Huangshi, Huanggang, Ezhou, and Xianning, but the most devastating effects came from several tornadoes that tore th...

In early July, Tropical Storm Bavi formed over the western Pacific Ocean and began rapidly gaining strength as it approached the Mariana Islands.

In late June, Japan and Taiwan faced a prolonged series of powerful downpours during East Asia’s rainy season. In Taiwan, rainfall intensified as Typhoon Mekkhala approached, while in Japan, the seasonal rain front was affected by two tropical cyclones at once: Mekkhala...

The magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes that struck less than a minute apart in Venezuela marked the country's most severe seismic episode in the past 125 years. In Japan, a powerful magnitude 7.2 earthquake was recorded off the coast of Iwate Prefecture, followed by a ma...

In Russia’s Sverdlovsk Region, the city of Kushva was struck by a tornado that is rare for the Ural region. On June 22, a powerful vortex moved not through a forested area, as more often happens in the region, but directly through the city’s built-up areas. That is why...

In late June, two strong seismic events occurred in Japan, causing damage and noticeable consequences.

While China was battling extreme downpours that brought more than 700 mm of rainfall in a single day in Guangdong Province, a historic flood occurred in the Taklamakan Desert — an event highly unusual for one of the driest regions on Earth. In Russia, Zabaykalsky Krai w...

On June 24, Venezuela experienced one of the most destructive seismic episodes in the country in the past two centuries. It was a seismic doublet: two powerful earthquakes that occurred almost back to back, less than one minute apart. The first, with a magnitude of 7.2,...

On the morning of June 16, a powerful magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck Central Sulawesi Province in Indonesia. According to Indonesia’s Agency for Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics, the seismic event occurred at 10:27 a.m. local time. The epicenter was on land, ab...

On June 11, the central United States experienced a new dangerous wave of extreme weather. This was not a local episode, but a regional outbreak of severe storms with tornadoes that affected several states at once: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, and Missouri.

Earthquakes and volcanic activity were observed in various regions of the world over the past week. A deep-focus magnitude 6.1 earthquake in Italy with a focal depth of 259 km, a series of tremors on the Greek island of Evia, and a destructive magnitude 7.8 earthquake i...

On the morning of June 8, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck off the coast of the Philippine island of Mindanao. According to the Philippine seismic service, the tremor was recorded at 7:37 in the morning local time, about 20 miles southwest of the city of Maasim in Sara...

A thermal anomaly affected several continents at once: France experienced the hottest May in its history, with nearly 2,000 temperature records broken; the United Kingdom recorded national temperature highs, while in China nighttime temperatures exceeded 30 °C for the f...

In the second half of May, China came under the influence of several dangerous natural processes at once. In different parts of the country, heavy downpours, floods, landslides, and seismic activity were developing almost simultaneously.

Last week saw a surge in seismic and volcanic activity, even in regions where such processes are usually not expected. The submarine eruption of Titan Ridge volcano in the Bismarck Sea continues to form floating pumice islands. According to specialists, such intense sub...

In recent years, wildfire activity in the United States has remained high. According to the National Interagency Fire Center, by May 23, nearly 2.35 million acres had already burned across the country. For comparison, over the entire year of 2025, slightly more than 5.1...

Mayon Volcano in the Philippines has once again reminded people of its dangerous power through a series of alarming events that changed life in Albay Province in just a few days. According to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, the first signs o...

Atmospheric instability has gripped the planet: while an EF4 tornado with winds exceeding 280 km/h raged in the United States, Ukraine was hit by a cold front bringing dust storms and April snowfall. At the same time, Thailand was suffocating from smog caused by large-s...

On April 20 at 4:53 p.m. local time, a powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Sanriku, Japan. The hypocenter was located at a depth of about 12 miles.