The devastated mother of the Taylor Swift concertgoer who died from extreme heat at the singer’s Rio de Janeiro concert last weekend thanked fans for crowdfunding to bring her daughter’s body home after she slammed the event organizers for not helping to facilitate her return. Ana Clara Benevides’ mother, Adriana, appeared emotional in a video … Read more
Revved-up climate change now permeates Americans’ daily lives with harm that is “already far-reaching and worsening across every region of the United States,” a massive new government report says. The National Climate Assessment, which comes out every four to five years, was released Tuesday with details that bring climate change’s impacts down to a local … Read more
Former Premier Li Keqiang, China’s top economic official for a decade, died Friday of a heart attack at 68. Li was China’s No. 2 leader from 2013-23 and an advocate for private business but was left with little authority after President Xi Jinping made himself the most powerful Chinese leader in decades and tightened control … Read more
What may have been the oldest pair of shoes in Europe were discovered in a cave in Spain and are now thought to be much older than scientists previously thought. About 20 pairs of the sandals are at least 6,200 years old — and possibly older — while other woven objects in the cave are dated back … Read more
Labor Day weekend is here, but there is no need to kiss summer goodbye just yet. Several more beach days are on the horizon, meteorologists say, and heat and humidity are set to linger a little longer. The long weekend will grow progressively warmer and more humid, said Dan Pydynowski, senior meteorologist for AccuWeather, with … Read more
Mandatory evacuation orders remain in place Saturday for several Louisiana communities as efforts to battle the Tiger Island fire in Beauregard Parish continue. As of Saturday, the Forestry Department reported that containment remains at approximately 50%, but is improving. Twelve residential structures have been lost to the fire, but there have been no reported injuries … Read more
A dramatic video recorded in British Columbia, Canada shows a swirling waterspout spinning across the water while a massive wildfire scorches the landscape in the background. According to the FOX Forecast Center, a cold front swept through the Lillooet, Canada, area last week, following several days of hot and dry weather. The waterspout was filmed in the pre-dawn hours of Aug. … Read more
Orange you glad? The Canadian wildfire smoke that covered the NYC skyline with a toxic amber glow in June was no worse for your lungs than a bad pollen day, researchers at NYU Langone found. “Thankfully, the respiratory effects of the wildfire smoke in June were not much worse than what had been seen on … Read more
A third of the country is facing another blast of late summer heat just as the season begins to wind down. Nearly 109 million Americans across the central U.S. from the Plains to the Midwest, and the Gulf Coast and Southeast are now under heat alerts that will last through at least Wednesday, but with no relief … Read more
At least two people were killed and dozens of homes have been destroyed during a series of wildfires in eastern Washington that kept firefighters busy through the weekend. Erratic fire behavior caused both the Gray and Oregon Road fires to burn thousands of acres and forced entire towns to evacuate. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee declared a state … Read more