Earth sciences

Weather disasters are striking the world four to five times more often and causing seven times more damage than in the 1970s, the United Nations weather agency reports.

It will be sunny today. This was announced for FOCUS News Agency by the weather forecaster on duty Victoria Kleshtanova from the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (NIMH).

A large international oceanographic mission to conduct underwater research drilling around the Santorini-Columbus-Christian volcanic complex in the South Aegean has just been approved and will take place from December 2022 to February 2023.

The Turkish State Meteorological Service has warned of a new heatwave that will scorch the country, especially the western and the northern parts, from Aug. 27 to the mid-next week.

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"The temperatures will be 4 to 8 degrees Celsius above the seasonal norms," it said in a statement on Aug. 26.

Rain fell at the highest point on Greenland's ice sheet - possibly for the first time - in an event Danish scientists on  Aug. 23 said was most likely driven by climate change.

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The rain was observed for several hours on August 14 at a measuring post more than 3,000 meters (9,800 feet) up on the sheet, the U.S. Snow and Ice Data Center reported. 

Temperatures at the Greenland summit over the weekend rose above freezing for the third time in less than a decade, CNN reports.
The warm air fueled an extreme rain event that dumped 7 billion tons of water on the ice sheet.

Houses in the forest have burned

Tropical Storm Grace has temporarily halted search and rescue efforts in Haiti. It is a delay that has sparked the anger and frustration of thousands of people who have been made homeless after last week's earthquake.

The storm hit southwestern Haiti, which was the area hardest hit by Saturday's 7.2 magnitude earthquake. Up to 15 inches of rain fell before the storm took its course.

The victims of the 1999 Marmara earthquake, the most devastating earthquake in the history of modern Turkey, were remembered on Aug. 17, as concerns over a potential disaster of a similar magnitude that is expected to hit Turkey continue to mount.

The Calderone ice formation in central Italy once laid claim to being the southernmost glacier in Europe - before it shrank and split into much-diminished glacierets.

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As climate change drives global temperatures ever higher, the glacier risks melting away into the geological record books altogether.