By Jethro Mullen1 August 2013 Hong Kong (CNN) – Record-breaking temperatures have been searing large swaths of China, resulting in dozens of heat-related deaths and prompting authorities to issue a national alert. People are packing into swimming pools or taking...
By Dan CollynsBBC News, Ayacucho Slowly but surely an extinct glacier in a remote corner of the Peruvian Andes is being returned to its former colour, not by falling snow or regenerated ice sheets, but by whitewash. It is the...
By Daniel Griffiths6 May 2011 Several US states that were hit by recent storms in the south and midwest now face the threat of severe flooding. Earlier this week engineers blew up a section of a Mississippi River levee to...
