At least six people have died in heavy rains in northeastern Brazil, with thousands more displaced, according to authorities. The deaths were reported in the Pernambuco and Paraiba states on Saturday, following two days of rain.
About a fifth of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) passed through the strait of Hormuz, a strip of sea less than 30 miles wide at its narrowest point, before it was in effect closed by the US-Israeli attack on Iran, which sent the price of oil soaring and left an estimated 20,000 seafarers on 2,000 vessels stranded.
I study metals in the ocean-things like iron, zinc, copper, manganese, nickel, cobalt, cadmium, and lead. Just like we need things like iron and zinc and copper in our own diet, phytoplankton, which are the algae that form the base of the food web in the ocean, also need these metals for optimal growth.
It's not the e-bikes, it's the e-motorcycles. Totally different classification. Much of the available injury data relies on law enforcement and hospital reporting that does not clearly distinguish between legal e-bikes and more powerful devices.
Caring about future generations means believing that people who will live decades or centuries from now deserve ethical consideration. This means taking their interests into account when making decisions across a range of issues.
As we destroy the environment, we are destroying ourselves, he told an audience at the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, held to address global environmental issues. We are part of the web of life, and what we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
The report found that temperatures in Europe have risen by 0.56C per decade since the mid-1990s, faster than any other continent on the planet due to fossil fuel pollution. This alarming trend has led to extreme weather events, including a record-breaking heatwave in July 2025 that affected over 95% of Europe.
The overall mortality rate of V. vulnificus infections is about 35 percent. But for anyone infected who also has an immunocompromising condition or a liver condition, mortality reaches 50-60 percent.
Claims circulating on social media suggested that after Iran bombed a cloud-seeding facility in the UAE, Tehran experienced a sudden temperature drop and snowfall. However, experts have stated that there is no evidence to support the notion that such an attack occurred or that it could influence weather patterns across borders.
By Wednesday night, most parts of Los Angeles have a roughly 20% to 30% chance of getting a measurable amount of rain. Winds are expected to pick up late Wednesday into Thursday, especially in mountain and desert areas, with gusts in the 25- to 35-mph range.
