“Sunday Morning” takes a look at new entertainment offerings in the coming months, from screens to the stage, from music to the page. Movies “Misty Green” (Opens Oct. 9)Comedian Chris Rock directs this comedy-drama starring Rosalind Eleazar (“Slow Horses”) as a once-successful actress trying to regain both employment and dignity in a hostile Hollywood. Rock,…
A fishing vessel that sank off the coast of Rhode Island on New Year’s Day in 2019 with three men aboard has likely been located, an oceanic protection nonprofit said Tuesday. The investigation also found humans remains believed to belong to one of the two fishermen who died in the wreck. The F/V Mistress…
The Atlantic is quiet — record quiet — this hurricane season thanks to an enormous El Niño that crushes storms before they get going. No Atlantic hurricanes have formed yet this year and none are likely to form for at least another week, even though this would normally be the peak of the season, according…
With the burgeoning El Niño now forecast to intensify significantly in the coming months, the “supersized” climate event will likely have an outsized impact on severe weather around the world, fueling heat, drought and flooding, among other extremes, the United Nations warned Thursday. “El Niño is being supersized before our eyes,” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said…
The deadly flash flood in Nepal on Wednesday was likely caused by a huge chunk of a glacier that broke off and temporarily dammed a river, according to preliminary investigations by scientists. That may have led to the backed-up water surging downstream with enormous force a few hours later, they suggested. Scientists are still piecing…
New Delhi — Glaciers in the Hindu Kush region of the Himalaya mountains are melting at the fastest rate ever and could shed as much as 80% of their ice by the end of this century if global warming continues unchecked, a group of international scientists warned in an alarming new report. The study says…
Pakistan and Norway on Thursday reaffirmed their commitment to strengthen bilateral ties and expand engagements in areas of defence and security. Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide, who is on a two-day visit to Pakistan, called upon Chief of Defence Forces and the Chief of the Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir, where the two…
