Snow covered the tops of cacti in Tucson, Arizona, on Thursday, March 2, as light snow moved over the city.
Footage recorded by @RalphEsq shows several cacti covered in white.
NWS Tucson, the local forecasting station, said light snow was expected over the Tucson metro area early on Thursday morning. Credit: @RalphEsq via Storyful
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UK braces for another round of turbulent weather as 16 areas face flood warnings or alerts
Bubbling sinkhole reappears above HS2 work in west London
Thruxted Mill was one of five UK sites where Mad Cow infected cattle were destroyed. Now, a University of Kent professor warns human activity must never be encouraged there
Heat pumps are just a “sticking plaster” solution for British homes in the race to cut energy bills and get to net zero, the chief executive of Britain’s biggest radiator maker has said.
Alisha Openshaw, 38, a stylist at a hairdresser jumped into the water to rescue a 6ft shark stranded on the beach.
It was a golden opportunity to learn more about a rare and secretive shark species that had never been found before in the UK.
TO GENERATIONS of Glaswegians, it is a romantic symbol of endurance.
Cars parked beside Lake Erie in Hamburg became encased in ice after Western New York was impacted by lake effect snow from Saturday, March 18, into Sunday morning.Footage captured by Richard Hulburd on Sunday shows two cars covered in ice by the Hamburg waterfront.The National Weather Service (NWS) warned that lake effect snow was expected to continue through Sunday afternoon, causing blowing and drifting snow, which would make travel difficult at times. Credit: @weather_buffalo via Storyful
Trophy hunters removed the head, tail and fin from the shark before scientists could study it
A fin whale with a deformed spine was seen off the coast of Cullera in eastern Spain, the country’s Guardia Civil said on March 6.Oceanografic Valencia, a local aquarium, said the Guardia Civil and aquarium staff were mobilized on March 4 after receiving a report that the whale was entangled in a drift net.Biologists and veterinarians determined that the 40-tonne male whale, measuring around 17 meters long, was not entangled but did have “a serious deviation” in its spine, Oceanografic Valencia said, according to a machine translation. The cause of the scoliosis was unknown, the aquarium said.After a few hours, the whale headed back out to sea, Oceanografic Valencia said. It said on March 6 that the whale could reappear near the coast due to its condition.Drone footage released by Guardia Civil shows the whale. Credit: Guardia Civil via Storyful
(Bloomberg) -- California is bracing for more heavy rain and snow early this week as another fast-moving storm roars in off the Pacific Ocean.Most Read from BloombergUBS to Buy Credit Suisse in $3.3 Billion Deal to End CrisisCredit Suisse’s $17 Billion of Risky Bonds Are Now WorthlessWarren Buffett in Contact With Biden Team on Banking CrisisCredit Suisse Said to Push Back Against UBS’s $1 Billion OfferFed and Global Central Banks Move to Boost Dollar FundingLarge areas of the state’s coastline
The pink blossom will flower next month after cold weather in March delayed this, providing 'incredible' scenes according to the National Trust.
Contractors are being hired to remove millions of rotting fish from a river in the Australian Outback after a unprecedented die-off following floods and hot weather, police said on Monday. The fish started dying in the Darling River near the New South Wales town of Menindee on Friday. Officials say the die-off likely occurred because fish need more oxygen in hot weather, but oxygen levels in the water dropped after recent floods receded.
STORY: An atmospheric river dumped more torrential rain on California on Wednesday (March 15), forcing evacuations, power outages and road closures in the state.Authorities said they are monitoring the river level to determine for how long the orders will be kept in place. The higher odds of minor to moderate flooding across most of California from rain and runoff of melting mountain snow this spring is roughly in line with forecasts for much of the U.S., according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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They travelled from Down Under, tiny stowaway seeds that turned the river banks around Scottish Borders woollen mills into a blaze of springtime colour.
Every mobile phone in the country will receive emergency siren alerts from the Government to warn the public of disasters such as floods, fires and terrorist attacks under a new system being launched today.
STORY: Spotting an urban sparrow in India has grownincreasingly difficult in recent years Experts say pollution, pesticide use anddeforestation are some of the reasonsSome conservationists have taken it uponthemselves to help reverse the trend(Gaurav Bajpai, Save Sparrow Campaign founder)"The eggs of sparrows and their hatchlings die the most after falling out of trees. We were seeing that they were dying in the first 15 days of being born. We saw that 60% of the sparrows died during this period after falling from trees. So, we started to keep them in a shelter home."Bajpai builds and distributes sparrow houses He says their efforts have helped sparrows return to urban areas
The Port of Lowestoft has lost out to Great Yarmouth in securing a support contract for a mega-sized offshore wind farm which would have created a green jobs bonanza for the town.
Several roads remained closed at Big Bend National Park on Sunday, March 19, after heavy snow continued to fall in southwest Texas.The National Weather Service (NWS) said Chisos Basin, a mountain basin in the Chisos Mountains within the park, recorded six to eight inches of snow on Saturday.The road leading to the basin was reopened on Sunday morning. This footage, released by Big Bend National Park, shows wintery scenes on the road leading to the basin. Several backcountry roads within the park remained closed on Sunday, the park said.The NWS said temperatures would remain low on Sunday as the snowfall tapered off, with warmer weather expected Monday. Credit: Big Bend National Park via Storyful
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