French firefighters battled to contain a raging wildfire near the glitzy Mediterranean resort of Saint-Tropez on Tuesday with thousands of residents and holidaymakers forced to evacuate.
Roughly 1,000 firefighters were using high-pressure hoses, aircraft and helicopters in an attempt to...
A wildfire that erupted outside California’s state capital just a few days ago had exploded to cover 54,000 acres by Wednesday, an eight-fold increase in 24 hours.
At least two people had to be airlifted to hospital as the Caldor...
The death toll from Turkey's flash floods soared to 27 on Friday as President Erdogan prepared to inspect one of the hardest-hit regions and lend his moral support.
The devastations across Turkey's northern Black Sea regions came just as the...
Heat waves and particularly the tendency of current models is to underestimate the intensity of these bursts of deadly, searing temperature.
This is one of the ‘major mysteries’ science still has to unravel, climatologist Robert Vautard told AFP, even as...
Wildfires were burning across more than one million acres of the western US and Canada on Monday, as scorching temperatures held their grip on areas reeling from a brutal weekend heat wave.
Some 850,000 acres were on fire in the...
Billions of years ago, Mars was home to lakes and oceans but where all the water went to transform the planet into desolate rock we know today has been something of a mystery.
Most of it was thought to have...
Australia’s rare regent honeyeater bird is losing its song, a sign that it could be nearing loss, scientists warned in new research released on Wednesday.
A rapid decline in the rare songbird means its young are struggling to learn mating...