Water main break in north Phoenix causes sinkhole, blocks traffic

As a bitter dispute raged between former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte and current leader Ferdinand Marcos, pro-Duterte TikTok accounts shared footage of a massive bridge that they falsely claimed was built during his term. The video, which racked up tens of thousands of views, in fact shows China's huge Hangzhou Bay Bridge, which opened to the public eight years before Duterte took office.

An update shows that the Jennings Creek wildfire has burned 5,000 acres of land on the New Jersey and New York border amid drought conditions. CBS News reported that officials have confirmed they have contained 20% of the flames spread across thousands of acres of land in NJ and NY. Other sources state that the [...] The post New Jersey Wildfire Map Shows How Far the Flames Have Spread appeared first on Mandatory.

Treasure Island's Sunset Beach community is working hard to recover after devastation caused by Hurricanes Helene and Milton. While some businesses may not return, others like Ka'Tiki, which has been open for more than 45 years, reopened 21 days after the storm.

For the first time since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, Afghanistan on Monday sent a delegation to the United Nations climate talks in a bid to garner help in dealing with global warming. Matuil Haq Khalis, who's head of the country's environment protection agency, told The Associated Press that Afghanistan needs international support to deal with extreme weather like erratic rainfall, prolonged droughts and flash floods. "All the countries must join hands and tackle the problem of climate change," said Khalis, speaking through a translator at the talks, taking place this year in Baku, Azerbaijan.

An emperor penguin found malnourished far from its Antarctic home on the Australian south coast is being cared for by a wildlife expert, a government department said Monday. The adult male was found on Nov. 1 on a popular tourist beach in the town of Denmark in temperate southwest Australia — about 3,500 kilometers (2,200 miles) north of the icy waters off the Antarctic coast, according to a statement from the Western Australia state's Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. The largest penguin species has never been reported in Australia before, University of Western Australia research fellow Belinda Cannell said, though some had reached New Zealand, nearly all of which is further south than Western Australia.

The National Hurricane Center on Monday increased its forecast odds a Caribbean system will develop into the season's next tropical depression or storm. As of its 7 p.m. EST tropical outlook, the NHC said an area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms to the south of Hispaniola over the central Caribbean Sea was associated with a tropical wave. "Environmental conditions appear conducive for ...

The Mountain fire could have been a second coming of the 2018 Woolsey fire or even the 2017 Thomas fire — if not for a few conditions that changed on the ground last week.

America's allies and foes alike have spent the past five days speculating about what Donald Trump's re-election will mean for their economies, security and the world's grinding wars. Climate diplomats gathering for talks Monday are just as anxious.