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- An artificial pond is seen at an agricultural field at Harf Beit Hasna village, in Dinnieh province, north Lebanon, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. Farmers in a small mountainous town in Lebanon's northern Dinnieh province once could rely on rain to irrigate their crops and sustain a living. But climate change and the country's crippling economic crisis has left their soil dry and their produce left to rot. They rely on the little rain they can collect in their innovative artificial ponds to make enough money to feed themselves, as they live without government electricity, water, and services. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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Lebanon's dwindling rain leaves farmers struggling for water
By KAREEM CHEHAYEB - Associated Press
Fri,09/30/22-1:22AM , 296 Reads
HARF BEIT HASNA, Lebanon (AP) — Farmers in a small town perched on a northern Lebanese mountain have long refused to accept defeat even as the government abandoned them to a life off the grid.
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- Mohamed Kheir Issack, 80, right, and and Issack Farow Hassan, 75, stand outside Issack's shelter at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. The two blind men are friends and as close as brothers, gripping each other's hands in their mutual darkness as tightly as they hold their canes. Near the end of their lives, the most alarming drought in more than half a century in Somalia has stripped them of their animals and homes. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
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Climate Migration: Blind and homeless amid Somalia's drought
By CARA ANNA - Associated Press
Wed,09/28/22-10:17PM , 355 Reads
DOLLOW, Somalia (AP) — Blindness heightens the remaining senses. The thud of a toppling camel is more jarring, the feel of tightening skin more acute, the smell of death thicker after weeks and months and then years without the rain that’s needed to survive.
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- This GOES-East GeoCcolor satellite image taken at 4:26 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, and provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), shows Hurricane Ian over the Gulf of Mexico. Hurricane Ian tore into western Cuba as a major hurricane Tuesday and left 1 million people without electricity, then churned on a collision course with Florida over warm Gulf waters amid expectations it would strengthen into a catastrophic Category 4 storm. (NOAA via AP )
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Hurricane Ian gets nasty quickly, turbocharged by warm water
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Tue,09/27/22-1:57PM , 640 Reads
Hurricane Ian is quickly gaining monstrous strength as it moves over oceans partly heated up by climate change, just like 30 other Atlantic tropical storms since 2017
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- Water rushes down Front Street, just a half block from the Bering Sea, in Nome, Alaska, on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022. Much of Alaska's western coast could see flooding and high winds as the remnants of Typhoon Merbok moved into the Bering Sea region. The National Weather Service says some locations could experience the worst coastal flooding in 50 years. (AP Photo/Peggy Fagerstrom)
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Storm battering western Alaska causes widespread flooding
By MARK THIESSEN AND JOCELYN GECKER - Associated Press
Sat,09/17/22-5:27PM , 408 Reads
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A powerful storm sweeping north through the Bering Strait on Saturday caused widespread flooding in several western Alaska coastal communities, knocking out power and sending residents fleeing for higher ground.
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