The whale stranding was the third largest in New Zealand history, since the country began keeping data in the 1800s.
The storm presents an amazing contrast from a possible world-record high-pressure zone over Mongolia.
In dives to the seafloor, scientists have noticed big differences in only a few years.
A buoy in Manatee Bay, about 40 miles south of Miami, posted a temperature of 101.1 degrees at 6 p.m. after a morning low of 91 degrees. Temperatures remained at or above 100 from 5 p.m. through late evening. For comparison, the “ideal” temperature of a hot tub is 100 to 102 degrees, according to jacuzzi.com.
The images are shocking, but perhaps not for people who live in the Dominican Republic.'It happens pretty much all the time,' says Cyrill Gutsch
Utqiagvik, Alaska, formerly known as Barrow, saw its most rain in a single day, while Fairbanks was raked by high winds.
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.
Scientists first caught on to the strange event when they found thousands of purple sea urchins and other organisms dead in their laboratory tanks.
Hurricane Lorena spared the resort-studded twin cities of Los Cabos a direct hit and has been reduced to a tropical storm Saturday as it heads up the east coast of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula
Dorian has risen to the top of the charts among the most powerful hurricanes ever observed in the Atlantic Ocean.
The concentration of the heat-trapping gas topped 420 parts per million, while the planet has warmed more than two degrees. This is the highest daily average concentration to be recorded. Data was collected at the Mauna Loa Observatory on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Ice in the north Bering Sea is diminishing, researchers aboard a Coast Guard ship report.
An intense heat dome has swelled over Scandinavia, spurring some of the region's hottest weather ever recorded.
A lot of water went into the start of the tunnel and then it froze to ice, so it was like a glacier when you went in,” Statsbygg spokeswoman Hege Njaa Aschim told the Guardian of the water breach.
This latest temperature spike is another striking indicator of the Arctic's rapidly changing climate.
Veterinarians in California use tilapia skin to treat burns on bears injured during wildfires.
Dozens have perished in Brazil's sixth-largest city after a record-breaking deluge.
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