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Added on the 11/01/2019 00:11:00 - Copyright : Wochit
Footage released over the weekend shows thousands of starfish washed up on a beach on the Russian island of Sakhalin near the village of Starodubskoe after a storm shook the area on Thursday night. According to scientists from the Sakhalin Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, the incident is nothing unusual and similar beachings have have happened before afrer heavy storms, but worried locals aren't convinced and have called for an investigation, raising environmental concerns.
Temperature reaches over 120 degrees Fahrenheit in Shymkent, Kazakhstan over the weekend - enough to make anyone scramble for cover. The weather was so hot that one man decided to have his breakfast al fresco, and scramble his eggs in the sun after the abnormal warmth heated the pan enough to cook with.
Climate change has had some devastating effects in California and northern Mexico. Some water reservoirs have shrunk to extreme levels due to prolonged periods of drought. However, one unlikely silver lining has literally emerged from the city of Oaxaca in Mexico's south. Drone footage captured the ruins of a 16th century Dominican church, normally covered by water, that emerged from underneath the waves due to severe drought in the Benito Juarez Dam in Jalapa del Marquez.
As temperatures soar, the U.N.'s weather agency urges world leaders to implement the Paris climate agreement.
Most cities will be too hot to host the Summer Olympics by 2085, according to new research.