TULSA, Okla. (KTUL) With the opening of Zinc Lake just months away over Labor Day weekend, the city began promoting it as the Big Dam Party, with artwork featuring people paddling on the water. But one person who won’t be celebrating is Charles Pratt. “You wouldn’t let your family in there,” he asked News Channel … Read more
New Zealand officials have fined a man hundreds of dollars for what they say was a display of “shocking and stupid behavior” after he was filmed jumping from a boat in an attempt to “body slam” an orca that was swimming next to a calf. In a press release on Tuesday, New Zealand’s Department of … Read more
The seemingly endless rain last autumn and winter in the UK and Ireland was 10 times more likely and 20% wetter from human-caused global warming, a study has found. More than a dozen storms hit the region in quick succession between October and March, which was the second wettest such period in nearly two centuries … Read more
Kianna Bingham sat in the boat as it scraped along the river under the South Street Bridge. To her left, the Schuylkill Banks boardwalk stretched out, and the towering skyscrapers of University City and Center City seemed to hover behind it. This is the first time I’ve seen the river like this, said Bingham, a … Read more
About 37% more water flows into the Salt Lake from its tributaries than in a typical year, according to federal data. (Megan Banta | The Salt Lake Tribune) Water levels have risen in Bear River Bay during an EcoFlight flyover of the Great Salt Lake on Tuesday, April 9, 2024. | May 22, 2024, 12:00 … Read more
From their home on the hill above Barre, Vermont, Doug and Rhoda Mason thought they were safe. It was July 11, 2023, and record rains were flooding their small town. Then, shortly before 5 a.m., a landslide hit the Masons’ home. The mud hit with such force that it pushed the structure 10 meters from … Read more
Fossil fuel companies are forcing governments to compensate them for lost revenue in the transition to a low-carbon global economy and destroying the world’s ability to counter their harmful activities, former senior officials have warned. of the UN. Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland, who was a two-time UN climate envoy, said she was … Read more