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Officials at New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene reportedly sent out a warning to colleagues this week ahead of a heat wave hitting the Big Apple Thursday and Friday, warning that “structural racism” and its implications increase the risk of heat stress for black New Yorkers.

Incredible images show a 17-year-old girl and her dog stranded on a rooftop surrounded by flood waters as they waited for hours to be rescued amid the eastern Kentucky flooding.

Citizens on Friday brought some much needed relief to a man named Robert Burks in Fort Worth, Texas. 

The death toll in the eastern Kentucky flooding has risen to 25, Gov. Andy Beshear (D) announced in a press briefing on Saturday morning.

Six people were killed Friday when a dust storm with major wind gusts caused a wreck involving 21 vehicles on Interstate 90 in Montana.

Australian government officials ordered roughly 50,000 residents of Sydney to evacuate their homes on Tuesday after local waterways swelled beyond danger levels amid heavy rains, Reuters reported.

Roughly one-quarter of the world’s population is currently at risk from “once-in-a-century” floods, with nearly 70 percent of this demographic living across South and East Asia, the South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday citing a new assessment published by the journal Nature Communications.

U.S. officials said Thursday that the Taliban has not officially requested assistance in the aftermath of a powerful earthquake in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday that reportedly killed over a thousand people.

PG&E has put in place a controversial plan to limit wildfires by using computerization to shut power down after threats.

Officials in Kansas are pointing to extreme heat as the main factor behind the deaths of thousands of head of cattle.

Instead of addressing real threats to human health, WHO has issued a report on the mental health impact from so-called climate change.

Firefighters in Greece on Sunday were battling a wildfire for a second day in two suburbs of the capital of Athens.

A 33-year-old mother was tragically killed, while her son and nephew were injured, in a parasailing accident where they collided with the Seven Mile Bridge in the Florida Keys on Memorial Day.

The Biden administration is against a lawsuit that claims the government has a constitutional duty to fight so-called climate change.

Americans are almost evenly divided on support for nuclear energy — mostly Democrats oppose it — despite its safety and environmental record.

Summer heat, shuttered power plants, and a clogged supply chain are straining the U.S electric grid, which could result in blackouts.

A super tornado touched down in North Texas and has moved across the state, according to reports, as weather officials have started to tell residents to take caution, stay indoors, and keep to tornado protocols.

A massive sandstorm blew through Iraq on Monday, forcing daily life to shut down in Baghdad and causing breathing difficulties in at least 4,000 people who sought medical treatment in hospitals nationwide, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.

Space Force has confirmed the discovery of the first-known interstellar meteor, which rocketed to Earth off the New Guinean Coast in 2014.

The U.N. climate change report includes information on how to get people involved in fighting global warming through “behavioral design.”

JetBlue flight passengers clamored to exit a plane in Newark after failed attempts to land at JFK Airport amid inclement weather, the New York Post reported Monday.

A storm in the pacific northwest dumped wet, heavy snow on the Portland, Oregon, metro area and southwest Washington, marking the first measurable April snowfall at the Portland International Airport on record.

Flight delays and cancellations continue to plague the travel industry as over 6,700 flights within, into, or out of the United States were delayed Friday.

A meteorologist in the Washington, DC, area placed everything on hold to make a very important call Thursday and is being applauded for the move.

At least three people were killed in an enormous pileup crash involving more than 50 cars on a snowy interstate in Pennsylvania on Monday.

A young man named Riley Leon will receive a huge gift after tornadoes ripped through Central Texas this week.

At least one person was killed Tuesday when a tornado barrelled through metro New Orleans, damaging over 12,000 structures in one suburb.

A tornado tried to lift a truck into the air in Elgin, Texas, on Monday and the person inside eventually drove away from the scene.

Weather conditions have caused wildfires to spread in Texas, resulting in evacuations of some communities, but so far no one was reported injured on Friday.

The cargo ship Al Salmi 6 sank in the Persian Gulf Thursday, and according to reports one of the thirty crew members remains unaccounted for.

Over 70 vehicles were tangled in a wreck along an interstate near Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. Ten people were injured in the pile-up.

A late-season winter storm has made its way from the South to the Northeast and will bring freezing temperatures to the South Sunday morning. 

Video captured the moment firefighters in Massachusetts rescued a black lab from frigid waters Thursday after she fell through the ice on a pond.

At least seven people, including two children, were killed when tornadoes tore through central Iowa Saturday evening. 

First responders in Michigan rescued a labradoodle that became stranded on an ice floe in the frigid Detroit River Monday afternoon.

The United Nations issued a report on Monday warning that “billions” of people are in danger from the weather.