Ocean temperatures last year were the hottest in recorded history, driving destructive weather around the world and pushing a rise in sea levels. This is according to research — titled Record-setting Ocean Warmth Continued in 2019 — published this week by a team of scientists from China and the United States in the peer-reviewed Advances […]
Exhausted firefighters said they had finally brought Australia’s largest “megablaze” under control Monday, as wet weather promised to deliver much-needed respite for countryside ravaged by bushfires. New South Wales firefighters said they finally had the upper hand in the fight against the vast Gospers Mountain fire on Sydney’s northwestern outskirts, which has been burning for […]
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