The strength of the sun's ultraviolet (UV) radiation is expressed as a Solar UV Index or Sun Index.The UV Index does not exceed 8 in the UK (8 is rare; 7 may occur on exceptional days, mostly in the ...

For people who live in a place as sunny as metro Phoenix, the Ultraviolet Index is a crucial tool to help protect against dangerous levels of sun exposure. The UV Index measures the radiation that ...

The worst floods to hit central Europe in at least two decades have caused widespread damage from Romania to Poland.

Climate change is influencing extreme weather events like the flooding across six countries that has led to mass evacuations ...

Swaths of Europe have been battered by deadly extreme weather, as rivers threaten to burst their banks in central Europe following torrential rainfall, and wildfires tear through Portugal.

Economic losses due to the latest flooding in central Europe are significant. The first estimations show that the cost of the current floods alone could surpass a billion euros, but the precise ...

At least 17 people have been killed in some of the worst floods to hit central Europe in decades as Storm Boris sweeps through the region, dumping well over a month’s worth of rain. Austria ...