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3 Aug 2019 01:47 AM EST
An unrelenting heat wave in July caused Greenland to experience a staggering melt of its ice sheet, says HuffPost. The melting ice produced enough water to cover all of Florida by several inches, researchers said. The semi-autonomous Danish territory has 82% of its surface covered in ice, but lost 197 billion metric tons of ice in July. The Danish Meteorological Institute said that's about four times the amount it would normally expect to lose in July. The secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organization said, "It is the reality of climate change."
Reuters reports Russia’s undaunted anti-Kremlin opposition said it was planning a nationwide protest next weekend. This, despite police forcibly detaining over 1,000 people on Saturday for attending... More
A top Mexican official on Sunday condemned a shooting in El Paso, Texas that killed 20 people, including three Mexicans. Mexico's deputy foreign minister for North America called for an end to rhetoric... More
Two mass shootings in Texas and Ohio reverberated across the United States’ political arena on Sunday. The carnage shocked a country already grimly accustomed to mass shootings, and heightened... More