As fishing restrictions push salmon harvests on the Kuskokwim River later into the wet part of summer, families are seeking new ways to dry their fish and keep bugs away.
Heavy rains engulf TransBaikal region with a dozen railway bridges destroyed and 15 more damaged.
The average number of fires for this time of year is 79, and this year there are 21. A representative with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources says it's likely because of more rain and less lightning.
The landslide is thought to be the largest that has ever occurred in Iceland. Experts say that the uncommonly wet summer weather is to blame for the event.
The death toll from torrential rain and landslides in western Japan rose to 81 people on Sunday, with dozens still missing after more than 2,000, temporarily stranded in the city of Kurashiki, were rescued.
As the climate changes, powerful Arctic cyclones—storms that hammer the sea with pounding rain and gusting winds—are expected to grow stronger and more frequent. As these two trends converge, the potential for catastrophe is rising.
The southwest region of France was hit on Wednesday by violent hailstorms, damaging roofs, cars and killing one person.
From the normally mild summer climes of Ireland, Scotland and Canada to the scorching Middle East to Southern California, numerous locations in the Northern Hemisphere have witnessed their hottest weather ever recorded over the past week.
Iraq has banned its farmers from planting summer crops this year as the country grapples with a crippling water shortage that shows few signs of abating. Citing high temperatures and insufficient rai...
The dry weather during May and June is putting an increasing strain on Sweden's farmers. There is a risk that several farms will have to close down.
Australia has seen an unprecedented number of widespread, catastrophic transformations in response to extreme weather events.
Anchorage hit 80 degrees Tuesday night, beating a record set in 1979, according to the National Weather Service.
A mere 71 hours of sunshine were recorded in the capital last month.
A Canadian climate scientist says Canada and the world are seeing a pattern of more extreme weather events
A mysterious malady has killed off nearly one-fifth of Colorado's aspens. But forest ecologists have struggled to explain the widespread die-off, known as Sudden Aspen Decline.
Nearly 80 million people in the United States remained under a heat advisory or warning Tuesday, with scorching temperatures and humidity expected through the Fourth of July.
The town of Lakselv, Norway, located near the Banak Peninsula and more than 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle in far northern Europe, recorded a temperature of 91 degrees on Wednesday and a high of at least 90 degrees twice this week. That's roughly 30 degrees above average for this region of the world.
The city has seen 114 millimetres of precipitation so far this June, more than the average for the entire summer.
Quriyat, Oman just blasted past a 24-hour minimum-temperature record, beating the previous "highest low," which was also set in Oman.
Two centimetres had fallen in parts of Newfoundland
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