Climate


In South Korea, temperatures in the city of Yangsan reached 42.5°C, breaking the national record three times in three days, while nearly 100 major wildfires simultaneously swept across the western United States, from Washington State to California. In Thailand, a lightn...

In Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake destroyed residential areas and industrial facilities, claiming the lives of dozens of people. In Italy, a record-breaking magnitude 4.7 earthquake shook the caldera of the Campi Flegrei supervolcano. In Europe,...

On the evening of July 31, the Campi Flegrei supervolcano caldera once again became the center of unusual seismic activity. At 7:46 p.m. local time, an earthquake of magnitude 4.7 struck near the Italian city of Pozzuoli, with its focus at a depth of about 1.9 miles. Th...

On July 28, at 4:27 p.m. local time, a powerful magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the Japanese island of Kyushu. Its focus was located in the Kumamoto area at a depth of about 6 miles. The tremors were felt across a vast territory, from Kyushu to the Hokuriku region.

In Europe, megafires have swept across tens of thousands of hectares, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people. In France, the flames generated a rare pyrocumulonimbus cloud that affected the outskirts of Bordeaux.

Beginning on July 18, several regions of India came under the influence of prolonged monsoon rains that caused widespread flooding and landslides. The most severe consequences were recorded in the northeastern state of Assam, the western state of Gujarat, and the Union...

On July 17, at about 8:48 in the morning local time, a powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck off Mexico’s Pacific coast. The epicenter was located in the ocean off the coast of the state of Chiapas, near the border with Guatemala, approximately 34 miles west-southwes...

SB64 — the 64th session of the subsidiary bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) — brought together representatives of governments, the scientific community, international organizations, and civil society in Bonn. As an important st...

Hot, dry weather led to a sharp deterioration in wildfire conditions across southern Spain.

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.

The heat dome over the United States affected more than 200 million residents during the celebrations of the 250th anniversary of independence, with the heat index reaching 46°C in some areas. In New Jersey, the heat wave claimed 25 lives. Belarus recorded a national te...

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,...

One-and-a-half-meter hail drifts in Armenia and an outbreak of 42 tornadoes across the U.S. Midwest were the week's most significant events. While utility crews were clearing massive accumulations of hail and ice in Gyumri, EF-3 tornadoes in Illinois and Indiana destroy...