Timelapse footage captured the northern lights shimmering across the night sky in northeastern Iowa on Wednesday, March 15.
Footage taken by Igor Arkadiev shows dazzling purple and green hues over Cedar Falls at around 4 am on Wednesday.
The Space Weather Prediction Center said that geomagnetic storm conditions could be observed through Thursday, March 16. Credit: Igor Arkadiev via Storyful
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Spring has sprung: Monday marks the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere
A black bear hibernating in South Lake Tahoe, California, wasn’t quite ready for spring, recent video shows, and with the weather being experienced locally, who could blame him?Footage of the bear, tagged as G101, was posted by local nature enthusiast Toogee Sielsch.Sielsch said G101 and other local black bears have “started to emerge from their urban dens”. But this video, dated March 6, shows G101 “returning to his crawlspace den” after a few hours out and about.Sielsch regularly posts photos and videos related to South Lake Tahoe’s “urbanized black bear population” on his Instagram profile. Credit: Toogee Sielsch via Storyful
There are few places on Earth as isolated as Trindade island, a volcanic outcrop a three- to four-day boat trip off the coast of Brazil.But Trindade island is the remotest place on the planet they have been found so far, she said.
It was felt in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, alongside a number of Pakistani cities including Islamabad and Lahore. Elsewhere, India’s ANI news agency reported that tremors were felt in New Delhi, the country’s capital. Measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale, the strongest earthquake recorded in Afghanistan occurred on 6 June 1956 in the Kabul region.
Long lines of roll clouds loomed over Weatherford, Texas, as the National Weather Service (NWS) said wind, humidity and high clouds were expected in areas near Dallas–Fort Worth on March 20.Video filmed by Chad Casey shows several lines of roll clouds hanging over a suburban landscape in Weatherford, he said.Roll clouds, a type of arcus cloud, are a type of rare cloud formation most often seen around thunderstorm gust fronts, according to the NWS. Credit: Chad Casey via Storyful
Seven storeys above a shopfloor hawking cheap perfume and nylon underwear, Thailand's "shopping mall gorilla" sits alone in a cage -- her home for 30 years despite a re-ignited row over her captivity.As international pressure to release Bua Noi grew last year, the family-owned zoo rejected a reported 30 million baht ($880,000) offer from Thailand's Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, saying the gorilla was too old to be rehomed.
A magnitude 6.5 earthquake rattled much of Pakistan and Afghanistan on Tuesday, sending panicked residents fleeing from homes and offices and frightening people in remote villages. More than 200 people were brought to hospitals in the Swat valley and elsewhere in the region of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in a state of shock, Bilal Faizi, a spokesman for Pakistan's emergency services told The Associated Press.
At least 12 people were killed in Afghanistan and Pakistan by a strong earthquake felt across thousands of kilometres, but the region appeared Wednesday to have dodged the mass casualties usually associated with a tremor of such scale.Over 55,000 people were killed by an earthquake that struck southeastern Turkey and parts of Syria last month, heightening fears across the region.
STORY: "We are draining humanity’s lifeblood through vampiric overconsumption and unsustainable use, and evaporating it through global heating," said Guterres during U.N.’s first conference on water security in almost half a century.Ensuring access to clean drinking water and sanitation is part of the 17-point to-do list the U.N. has set for sustainable development, alongside ending hunger and poverty, achieving gender equality, and taking action on climate change. “This conference must represent a quantum leap in the capacity of Member States and the international community to recognize and act upon the vital importance of water to our world’s sustainability and as a tool to foster peace and international co-operation,” he added.
The United Nations children’s agency on Tuesday warned that after last summer's devastating floods, 10 million people in Pakistan, including children, still live in flood-affected areas without access to safe drinking water. The statement from UNICEF underscored the dire situation in impoverished Pakistan, a country with a population of 220 million that months later is still struggling with the consequences of the flooding, as well as a spiraling economic crisis. The floods, which experts attribute in part to climate change, killed 1,739 people, including 647 children and 353 women.
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Slow wifi and “basic” seats were among the complaints made recently by British content creator Dale Philip about his ride on the Kuala Lumpur International Airport’s Transit, which stops at every station along the line (unlike KLIA Express, a non-stop service between KL Sentral, KLIA and KLIA2). “It’s just very basic seats. It’s not like…
There has been much ado over Malaysia's plan to consult with Singapore's affordable housing experts. Here's why some are unhappy about this.
Sarene Taylor, 88, died on Monday after being transferred from a hospital in North Wales to a care home.
Gleise Graciela Firmiano was shot on 30 January in San Bernardino County
