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Brace for Impact: Floridians Warned Hurricane Milton Ready to Explode

Hurricane Milton is closing on Florida’s west coast with landfall expected as a Category 4 hurricane Wednesday night or early Thursday morning as a mass exodus continues. The extreme weather event will arrive as Floridians still work to recover from the devastation unleashed by Hurricane Helene’s impact 12 days ago.

ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA - OCTOBER 07: Boards are placed over the windows of a bar as the s

At Least 26 Dead as Tornadoes Rip Through U.S. Midwest, South

Dozens of storms and tornadoes have killed at least 26 people in small towns and big cities across the south-central and eastern U.S. since late Friday night, all while tearing a path through the Arkansas capital and collapsing the roof of a packed concert venue in Illinois.

SULLIVAN, INDIANA, UNITED STATES - 2023/04/01: A firefighter helps with search and rescue

Deadly U.S. Winter Storm Maintains Its Icy Grip, Claims at Least 34 Lives

Millions of Americans might have been dreaming of a white Christmas, but surely nothing like this. The brutal winter storm that has blanketed much of the U.S. in a coating of snow and ice will continue into the week as travelers see cancelled flights and dangerous roads combining to make their holiday travels a misery.

Winter storm snow blankets a neighborhood, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2022, in Buffalo, N.Y. Million

Winter Storm Turns Deadly: 18 Lives Lost as Frigid Monster Sweeps U.S.

Millions of Americans woke on Christmas morning to confront damage from the frigid winter storm that has killed at least 18 people over the past 48-hours, forcing some inside their homes behind heaping snow drifts while denying power to hundreds of thousands of private residences and businesses.

A local resident shovels snow off the end of a driveway, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022, in Urban

Bushfires Add to Pressure from Drought in China

Bushfires have reportedly engulfed “several mountains” in Chongqing, a municipality within southern China’s Sichuan province, in recent days, the Global Times reported on Monday, noting that the wildfires have merely exacerbated an ongoing heatwave and drought across most of China’s southern region that began in June.

HEJIANG, CHINA - AUGUST 22: A firefighter battles to contain the forest fire on the mounta

China Struggles to Prevent Food Crisis as Drought Hits Heartland Farms

China’s central government on Monday was “ramping up” efforts to prevent an ongoing heatwave and drought from ruining much of the nation’s autumn grain harvest across China’s southern region, the Global Times reported, noting that the autumn grain harvest in jeopardy contributes 75 percent of China’s annual grain production on average.

Gan Bingdong stands in the basin of a community reservoir near his farm that ran nearly em

Southern China Floods Kill at Least 17, Displace Nearly 300,000

At least 17 people were killed across China’s neighboring provinces of Hunan and Guangxi as of Thursday after severe rainfall caused flooding and landslides that swept away entire villages and displaced hundreds of thousands of people in the southern region, the Associated Press reported.

GANZHOU, CHINA - JUNE 06: Armed police officers evacuate residents from a flood-hit area a