A helpless neighbor has described watching in horror as an elderly woman was killed by an alligator while walking her dog in a retirement community in the southern US state of Florida.. The neighbor, identified only as Carol, said she saw the woman, who has not been named, being dragged into water by the 10-foot (three-meter) reptile during an attack at the Spanish Lakes Fairways community in Fort Pierce on Monday.
Gondolas lay beached along a series of Venice's famed canals this week, as low tides and a lack of rain left would-be punters high and dry.. "Low tides are not enough to dry up the canals, but this year they are accompanied by high atmospheric pressure, which prevents bad weather", he said.
Rescuers scrambled Tuesday to find survivors among dozens of people reported missing after the heaviest rains in Brazilian history caused floods that killed at least 44 people over the weekend. . Residents of nearby Juquehy, still shaken by the weekend storm, spent another night in anguish when rains caused fresh landslides in the early hours of Tuesday.
A Chinese biophysicist who was jailed for creating the world's first gene-edited babies said on Tuesday he was seeking collaborators after Hong Kong granted him a research visa, to the consternation of the scientific community.. At the weekend the scientist -- who was released in April last year -- announced he had been granted a visa under a scheme aimed at drawing talent to Hong Kong.
France has matched its record dry spell of 31 days without significant rainfall, the country's weather service said Tuesday, amid concerns over water reserves in parts of Europe still reeling from last year's severe drought. . Crops withered in European breadbaskets and the historic dry spell drove record wildfire intensity and placed severe pressure on the continent's power grid and water reserves.
Oil and gas companies are not doing enough to cut methane emissions, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said Tuesday, despite high energy prices making abatement measures mostly pay for themselves.. "Based on the record gas prices seen around the world in 2022, we estimate that about 80 percent of the options to reduce emissions from oil and gas operations worldwide could be implemented at no net cost," said the IEA. The IEA estimates that $100 billion -- less than three percent of the income of oil and gas companies worldwide last year -- would be enough to achieve a 75 percent reduction in methane emissions.
Two pink river dolphins, a mother and her calf, were rescued from a Colombian river where the endangered mammals were trapped in shallow water, the navy said.. A navy video released on Monday shows several officers carrying the dolphins in a makeshift hammock, others checking the mammals' condition and spraying them with water.
Actor and activist Jane Fonda on Monday warned that humanity is "losing the ocean," as two weeks of negotiations begin at the United Nations on a treaty to protect the high seas.. The petition, which Fonda handed over Monday evening, calls for a "strong" treaty.
A "very lethargic" alligator was captured in a New York park, city officials said Monday, likely released by its owner far away from the species' warmer habitat in the southeast United States.. Rangers captured the four-foot-long (1.2 meters) alligator, which was "found very lethargic and possibly cold shocked," New York City Parks said in a statement.
Ankle-deep in muck, Brazilian domestic worker Patricia da Silva picks her way through the debris and mud of what used to be her home, trying to rescue what she can of her belongings.. Da Silva's neighbors in the Juquehy neighborhood are trying to help her save what she can from the wreckage, trudging back and forth with wheelbarrows of orange-colored mud and remains of her family's possessions.
