If you are reading this during your UK staycation, there’s a good chance it’s bucketing down. Or at least drizzling. If you are on holiday in the Med, you are probably uncomfortably hot. Puzzled by the weather? Try these weather puzzles:1. The weather forecast... More »
The weather map of southern Europe remains a deep, sinister red, as the heat soars above 40C in places and closer to 50C in Sicily and Sardinia. In Madrid, some nights are equatorial rather than tropical, as the temperature stays above 25C. June was the hottes... More »
Land temperatures have hit 60Cin Spain, satellite data shows, with tourists warned to stay off beaches throughout the Mediterranean. Across the pond, more than 100 million Americans are still under extreme heat warnings. When the “heat dome” squatting over the... More »
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Solar farms stretch out mile after mile along Interstate 10 around Palm Springs, creating one of the densest areas of solar developm... More »
Sriracha lovers everywhere are feeling the not so pleasant sting of the beloved hot sauce shortage, now in its second year. Drought in Mexico has resulted in a scarcity of chilli peppers – in particular, red jalapeños, the raw material of sriracha – leading Hu... More »
At first, it is hard to spot. A small hole in the eaves is often all that can be seen. It’s only on closer inspection that a hollow brick can be discerned, slotted neatly into a wall. Inside might be a pair of nesting swifts that have travelled thousands of mi... More »
Slabs of chicken meat grown from cells nurtured by scientists, rather than from birds raised and slaughtered by farmers, can now be sold in the United States. The U.S. Department of Agriculture greenlit two kinds of lab-grown chicken for the first time on Wedn... More »
Gary Hairston worked as an electrician in an underground coal mine for almost 30 years. It was hard, often grimy, work. When a big machine called a continuous miner dug into the hard earth, it kicked up all kinds of dust. Slowly, Hairston began to notice that ... More »
A record-breaking heat wave is entering its third week in Texas, as temperatures reach triple digits in the broader US south and tens of thousands of people in affected states are without power and lack air conditioning.More than 40 million people in the US ar... More »
There are moments when an ancient object emerges from the soil and seems, for a second, to close the gap between you and the deep and slumbering past. Then, almost as soon as a picture has shifted into bright focus, the illusion of connection passes: one is le... More »
The Australian energy giant Woodside is spending $7bn to drill for 479m barrels-worth of oil and gas off the coast of Mexico, but it says this is all in line with keeping global heating to 1.5C.How?Woodside has said it “aims to thrive through the energy transi... More »
Earlier today I set you the following puzzle.Police chaseThe streets of the city are a square grid that extends infinitely in all directions. One of the streets, Broadway, has a police offer stationed every 100 blocks.A robber is somewhere in the city.Can you ... More »