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Tropical Storm Rafael formed in the Caribbean on Monday, a storm that's predicted to intensify into a hurricane and threaten the U.S. Gulf Coast by this weekend, the National Hurricane Center said.

However, given significant uncertainties in the long-range forecast track and intensity, it is too soon to determine what, if any, impacts could occur in the U.S., the hurricane center said.

"There has never been a tropical storm or hurricane landfall in Texas, Louisiana or Mississippi during November and December. So that would be quite a milestone, but this does not mean that people along the central and western Gulf Coast should let their guard down," AccuWeather lead hurricane expert Alex DaSilva said.

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New York’s mayor urged residents to take shorter showers, fix dripping faucets and otherwise conserve water, issuing a drought watch Saturday after a parched October in the city and in much of the United States.

A drought watch is the first of three potential levels of water-saving directives, and Eric Adams pitched it in a social media video as a step to try to ward off the possibility of a worse shortage in the United States’ most populous city.

He ordered all city agencies to get ready to implement their water-conservation plans, and asked the public to do its part by, for example, turning off taps while brushing teeth and sweeping sidewalks instead of hosing them down.

“Mother Nature is in charge, and so we must make sure we adjust,” said Adams, a Democrat.

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An earthquake shook off the Oregon coast Wednesday afternoon.

The earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean, more than 170 miles west of Bandon, Oregon at 1:15 p.m. local time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The temblor, which was recorded at a depth of over 6 miles, measured a preliminary magnitude of 6.0.

It was not immediately clear if there was any damage.

There is no tsunami danger off the coast of Oregon, the National Weather Service in Seattle confirmed.

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The concentration of planet-heating pollutants clogging the atmosphere hit record levels in 2023, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has said.

It found carbon dioxide is accumulating faster than at any time in human history, with concentrations having risen by more than 10% in just two decades.

“Another year, another record,” said Celeste Saulo, secretary-general of the WMO. “This should set alarm bells ringing among decision makers.”

The increase was driven by humanity’s “stubbornly high” burning of fossil fuels, the WMO found, and made worse by big wildfires and a possible drop in the ability of trees to absorb carbon.

The concentration of CO2 reached 420 parts per million (ppm) in 2023, the scientists observed. The level of pollution is 51% greater than before the Industrial Revolution, when people began to burn large amounts of coal, oil and fossil gas.

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Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades.

The Sahara does experience rain, but usually just a few inches a year and rarely in late summer. Over two days in September, however, intense rain fell in parts of the desert in southeast Morocco, after a low pressure system pushed across northwestern Sahara.

Preliminary NASA satellite data showed nearly 8 inches of rain in some parts of the region.

Errachidia, a desert city in southeast Morocco, recorded nearly 3 inches of rainfall, most of it across just two days last month. That’s more than four times the normal rainfall for the whole month of September, and equates to more than half a year’s worth for this area.

“It’s been 30 to 50 years since we’ve had this much rain in such a short space of time,’ Houssine Youabeb from Morocco’s meteorology agency told AP last week.

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It begins each day at nightfall. As the light disappears, billions of zooplankton, crustaceans and other marine organisms rise to the ocean surface to feed on microscopic algae, returning to the depths at sunrise. The waste from this frenzy – Earth’s largest migration of creatures – sinks to the ocean floor, removing millions of tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere each year.

This activity is one of thousands of natural processes that regulate the Earth’s climate. Together, the planet’s oceans, forests, soils and other natural carbon sinks absorb about half of all human emissions.

But as the Earth heats up, scientists are increasingly concerned that those crucial processes are breaking down.

South Florida has seen close to 100 tornado warnings Wednesday, the National Weather Service’s (NWS) Miami forecast office said, as Hurricane Milton makes landfall in the Sunshine State.

NWS Miami said in a post on the social platform X that “98 Tornado Warnings” were “issued today by NWS Tampa Bay, NWS Melbourne, and NWS Miami” by 6 p.m. Wednesday. The forecast office also said that there had been a “preliminary” minimum of “9 Confirmed Tornadoes today in our NWS Miami area.”

The tornadoes came prior to the landfall of Milton, which President Biden said Tuesday could be the worst storm to hit Florida in more than 100 years.

he nightmare continues. One year on from the horror of the 7 October massacre and the inhumane seizure of hostages, more than 40,000 lives have been destroyed after relentless bombing, war continues to spread to the wider Middle East and a ceasefire seems as far away as ever. And, yet, amid the rubble and the shattered dreams of peace, we must still look for signs of hope.

A detailed plan for a two-state solution lies gathering dust. Moving it forward will require a globally coordinated effort not just in word but in deed. Most immediately, we need to step up our efforts for a ceasefire and intensify the pressure for the release of hostages. And while today hearts are broken, our promise that we will do everything in our power to support reconstruction must be unbreakable. We may feel akin to watchers on the shore, but we must also think ahead to a time when the guns fall silent, and so we should not delay to plan for and prepare the unprecedented support required for those who have known nothing but suffering, but for whom nothing better is on offer: Gaza’s 1 million children.