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Cold conditions with temperatures as low as 34 degrees expected. Cold conditions will be hazardous to sensitive populations such as unhoused individuals. Prolonged exposure to the cold conditions will lead to hypothermia for people, pets, and livestock. Cold conditions may damage or kill sensitive crops, plants, and vegetation if appropriate precautions are not taken, according to the NWS. Ensure portable heaters are working properly and are used correctly to avoid sparking a fire indoors.

Scientists have watched in horror as its retreat has accelerated significantly. Now, as detailed in a study published by the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC) and spotted by Wired, large cracks forming in the ice shelf are continuing to weaken its structural integrity. Doomsday has never been closer. If it were to collapse under its own weight, scientists suggest it could ultimately trigger up to 11 feet of global sea level rise, meaning certain devastation for tens of millions of people.

With winter setting in across the UK, staying warm at home is becoming a daily priority. However, with energy costs still high, households are increasingly weighing up whether turning on the heating is really the most cost-effective option. At the current cost of energy in the UK, it costs around 6p per kilowatt-hour if connected to mains gas. Using a 24-kW boiler, that works out at roughly £1.42 per hour.

I was retracing my steps of 20 years earlier to a scene of mass death I had never been able to erase from my mind. At a small plateau alongside Ninemile Creek in the Golden Trout Wilderness Area, I had stood in a forest of black sticks standing on both sides of a steep canyon like whiskers on a beast too large to comprehend.

High pressure is likely to be centred to the west or northwest over the North Atlantic through this period with low pressure to the east. Slowly evolving weather patterns are therefore most probable through this time. However, around the turn of the year, an area of low pressure may move through the North Sea bringing a period of wetter and windier weather, especially to the north. With cold air close to the UK, some wintry hazards are possible in places.

"What we believe has happened here is some unauthorised waste has been dumped." Peter says he thinks the waste has come from a barber-shop before he triumphantly pulls out a scrap of paper revealing details of the business. "So now we'll use that evidence to issue a fixed penalty notice for fly-tipping on that address," says Eiman, who is Lewisham's planning enforcement manager and interim environmental enforcement manager.

Every year, TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield pitch contest draws thousands of applicants. We whittle those applications down to the top 200 contenders, and of them, the top 20 compete on the big stage to become the winner, taking home the Startup Battlefield Cup and a cash prize of $100,000. But the remaining 180 startups all blew us away as well in their respective categories and compete in their own pitch competition.

Household waste increases 25% between Thanksgiving and New Years according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Dan Hoornweg, an energy engineering professor at Ontario Tech University, said people should check with their local recycling policies when sorting through holiday trash. Rules vary by municipality, including what belongs in recycling bins and what should go in the trash. Hoornweg cautioned residents to pay close attention to what they are throwing away.

Production data published by the Department for Transport (DfT) covering most of 2025 shows that sustainable fuels (SAF) only accounted for 1.6% of fuel supplied for UK flights 20% less fuel in volume than the 2% needed to fulfil the requirement. The government introduced the mandate in January, which requires suppliers to hit targets for SAF which the industry has argued is important for cutting its carbon emissions within the overall UK aviation fuel mix.

A strong storm system that brought relentless winds, rain and snowfall to California this week was expected to ease Friday, but there was still a risk of high surf along the coast, flash flooding near Los Angeles and avalanches in the Sierra Nevada. Waves near the San Francisco Bay Area could reach up to 25 feet Friday, parts of Southern California were at risk of flooding, and avalanches could hit the Lake Tahoe area, officials warned.

Marin Coastal Range, Coastal North Bay including Point Reyes National Seashore and North Bay Interior Valleys are included in a report for showers by the National Weather Service on Friday at 2:30 p.m. The alert is in effect until 3 p.m. Residents may experience wind gusts of up to 40 mph. At 2:30 p.m., Doppler radar tracked a shower 11 miles west of Stinson Beach, or 19 miles southwest of San Rafael, moving northeast at 25 mph, the NWS San Francisco CA said.

San Francisco Bay Shoreline, San Francisco Peninsula Coast, Santa Cruz Mountains and Santa Clara Valley Including San Jose are included in a report for strong thunderstorms by the National Weather Service on Thursday at 4:17 p.m. The alert is in effect until 4:45 p.m. Wind gusts of up to 40 mph and pea-sized hail (0.25 inches) are anticipated.

But first there will likely be a bit more precipitation. The National Weather Service predicts 1 to 1½ inches of rain will fall on Los Angeles County's coasts and valleys between midnight and noon on Friday, with 1½ inches to 4 inches in the mountains. Coastal and valley temperatures are anticipated to peak in the high 50s and low 60s, and snowfall is expected at elevations above 6,000 feet.

A report from the Cornwall Wildlife Trust tells us that 13 times as many octopuses as usual about 233,000, or nearly 2m legs' worth were caught in UK waters this year. Look, I don't believe in signs but these things are a sign. I don't know precisely what of, but they're a sign. When two freaky variants of two already freaky things happen, it's a sign. And what's freakier than sinkholes appearing or octopuses? Sinkholes are holes that appear out of nowhere.

"It literally felt like a bomb went off," he said.

Designed to respond to the crucial challenges of the environment, energy, climate, and health, the Maison des solidarite du Departement in Langon (Gironde) completed by ABF-LAB, is based on a radical environmental scenario where bioclimatism, passive systems, and total use of natural materials are combined to implement a new construction approach.

The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for Santa Cruz County until 1 p.m. Thursday. The service reported that a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was 7 miles south of Santa Cruz at a speed of 35 mph. The areas impacted include Santa Cruz, Corralitos, Scotts Valley, Capitola, Live Oak, Soquel, Twin Lakes, Opal Cliffs, Felton, Aptos, Ben Lomond, Rio Del Mar, Eureka Canyon Road, Boulder Creek, Day Valley, Aptos Hills-Larkin Valley and Aptos Hills-Larkin.

Described as the "western hemisphere's most sophisticated weather-observing and environmental-monitoring system," the GOES-R satellite series is capable of providing data from diverse weather phenomena. This year, it captured several images of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, which erupted from December 2024 to February 2025. In March, the lava fountain reached heights of over 1,000 feet, the highest it's been in about 50 years.

Krysten Kellum, a spokesperson with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, said during the investigation officials discovered the Trans had sold 243 tuna and about 3,000 pounds of mackerel in less than a month. Investigators also issued a search warrant and found evidence of prior fishing activity that targeted crab, striped bass, halibut, shark, rockfish, lingcod, sea bass and clams.

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