Indigenous Nenets reindeer herders say oil and gas operations in the Yamal region - exploration activity that includes hundreds of wells and dozens of trains and tankers - are polluting the environment and harming their animals' health.
Palisade-area fruit growers were out in their orchards the frigid night of April 13 and into the next morning, frantically cranking up wind machines, turning on irrigation water, and lighting burn barrels in last-ditch efforts to save crops from a bud-killing Canadian cold front.
There is a danger of spring flood over almost the entire country. On Sognefjellet it has not been as much snow in 20 years.
Police officers reportedly trapped in floods as West Pokot county is hit again by a potentially deadly landslide.
"Environment Canada is currently predicting highs of 21–22 C Friday to Sunday this week (Thursday is just short at 19 C). That's well above the normal for this time of year, says Environment Canada meteorologist Lisa Erven, which usually sits at 17 C, but won't be record setting."
Rain across J&K, fresh snowfall at higher reaches Gopal Sharma JAMMU, Apr 17: Rain across J&K UT and the snowfall on the higher reaches has thrown
As coronavirus takes hold and farmers plant crops, the continent faces a new wave of locusts 20 times larger than one earlier this year.
"Temperatures in Britain will soar to nearly 21C later this week despite parts of the country having seen lows of -7C since the Easter bank holiday heat wave."
"Heatwave is on the rise in Telangana with temperatures soaring between 41 and 42-degree celsius in North and North-East regions of the state, said the weather officials."
“The average high temperature for the month of April for places like New Delhi, India, is 36 C,” says Weather Network meteorologist Ida Hung. Sizzling temperatures are coinciding with India’s nationwide lockdown due to the novel coronavirus outbreak.
So far this year, there has been 653 centimetres of snow in Tromsø. There has not been this much snow in the city since 2000.
In March, several stations in Troms and Finnmark received about three times the normal precipitation. Nationwide, March was the fourth most precipitation-rich since measurements began in 1900.
This year's snow record has been broken in Riksgränsen. More than five metres of snow was recorded at the ski resort on Monday morning – and more precipitation is expected.
A massive landslide damaged 28 houses in a village along Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir, rendering hundreds of people homeless, officials said on Sunday.
In the mountains there is more three or four times as much snow as normal. Experienced reindeer owners have never experienced such a difficult winter.
Grazing conditions for reindeer in Northern Norway are very poor this winter as an unusual amount of snow forces the reindeer to dig especially deep to find food. On top of that, mild weather has created layers with ice both in the snow and below, locking lichen into the ground and leaving reindeer to starve.
Ten bodies have been recovered from a landslide which buried 12 people in Papua New Guinea's Western Highlands.
It's been decades since there has been so much snow on the icebergs in southern Norway.
The state's water worries mirror those in B.C. Record-breaking temperatures earlier this month and a below average snowpack have led to a faster snow melt in this province.
Lightning is unusual in a city that, according to the National Weather Service, sees fewer than two thunderstorms a year. It was the first time the power company had seen a lightning-related power outage in 15 years.
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