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Dozens still missing four days after Venezuela landslide
Oct 12, 2022 (AFP)
At the last official count, 43 bodies had been found after disaster struck Las Tejerias, a town of some 50,000 people nestled in the mountains about 50 kilomete...
Neighbors, rescuers search for missing after Venezuela landslide
Oct 11, 2022 (AFP)
More than 3,000 rescuers were deployed in Las Tejerias, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) from the capital Caracas, after Venezuela's worst natural disaster in deca...
UK sends police, navy ship to crime-hit Caribbean territory
Oct 11, 2022 (AFP)
London said the 24 highly-trained specialist firearms officers and the Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessel were sent after a "major surge" in crime which has seen 15 f...
Hope fading in search for Venezuela landslide survivors
Oct 11, 2022 (AFP)
President Nicolas Maduro said on state television that the death toll is expected to reach 100. Neighbors and rescuers -- some 3,000 police, soldiers and other ...
Ukraine's Zelensky urges UNESCO cultural protection for Odessa
Oct 11, 2022 (AFP)
"We must provide a clear signal that the world will not turn a blind eye to the destruction of our common history, our common culture, our common heritage," Zel...
US hurricane rebuilding rules must adapt to 'era of climate change': expert
Oct 09, 2022 (AFP)
But as climate change increases the frequency and scale of natural disasters, does US policy need to adapt? Gavin Smith, a professor of environmental planning a...
GMV joins UN Global Compact
Oct 07, 2022 (SPX)
The Global Compact is the world's leading corporate sustainability initiative. Its primary mission is to call on the business sector to act in line with ten uni...
Biden tours Florida hurricane clean-up zone -- and opponent's territory
Oct 06, 2022 (AFP)
The Democrat, accompanied by First Lady Jill Biden, boarded a helicopter at Fort Myers for an aerial inspection of the havoc wreaked in one of the worst storms ...
NASA study finds climate extremes affect landslides in surprising ways
Oct 06, 2022 (JPL)
The researchers expected slow-moving landslides - where land creeps downhill just inches to feet in a year - in bone-dry Southern California to behave different...
Biden tells storm-hit Puerto Rico: 'America's with you'
Oct 04, 2022 (AFP)
The president and First Lady Jill Biden -- who on Wednesday will also visit the devastation caused by Hurricane Ian in Florida where dozens have died -- headed ...
UN chief warns of fight for life as pre-COP27 climate talks open
Oct 03, 2022 (AFP)
Humanity has experience "immense" climate impacts across the world this summer, Guterres told media at the UN headquarters in New York ahead of the Kinshasa tal...
Biden heads to storm-hit Puerto Rico
Oct 03, 2022 (AFP)
The high-profile trip will be the first of two this week for the Bidens, who head on Wednesday to Florida to assess the devastating damage caused by Hurricane I...
Stay or go? Hard choice for Florida islanders devasted by Ian
Oct 02, 2022 (AFP)
"We feel kind of forgotten," says the 50-year-old teacher, who lost her home to the storm. "We thought they'd send in help, water and supplies and things, and w...
Biden warns Hurricane Ian could be 'deadliest' in Florida history
Sep 29, 2022 (AFP)
"This could be the deadliest hurricane in Florida history," he said after a briefing at the FEMA emergency management headquarters in Washington. "The numbers.....
Canada army deployed for hurricane cleanup
Sep 26, 2022 (AFP)
More than 260,000 people were still without electricity in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick on Monday morning. Soldiers were clearing debris ...
Disease, malnutrition threaten to raise Pakistan flood toll: UN
Sep 21, 2022 (AFP)
Pakistan has been lashed by unprecedented monsoon downpours flooding a third of the country -- an area the size of the United Kingdom -- and killing nearly 1,60...
27 people killed in China quarantine bus crash
Sep 18, 2022 (AFP)
The crash took place on a highway in rural Guizhou province when the vehicle carrying 47 people "flipped onto its side", Sandu county police said in a statement...
Seven dead in Indonesia mine landslide: district chief
Sep 17, 2022 (AFP)
The victims were mining gold on a bare hillside when the landslide triggered by heavy rains struck the area on the west of Borneo island, in West Kalimantan pro...
Fire engulfs skyscraper in China's Changsha city
Sep 16, 2022 (AFP)
The blaze broke out in a 42-floor building housing an office of state-owned telecommunications company China Telecom, according to state broadcaster CCTV. "Thic...
Patagonia founder gives away company to save planet
Sep 14, 2022 (AFP)
Yvon Chouinard, 83, could have sold the brand -- valued at $3 billion, according to The New York Times -- or taken it public. Instead, he, his wife and their tw...
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