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Volcano evacuees face huge reconstruction challenges
Oct 05, 2021 (AFP)
It has been more than two weeks since La Cumbre Vieja began erupting, forcing more than 6,000 people out of their homes as the lava burnt its way across huge sw...
Hurricane Ida could cost insurers $30 billion: Swiss Re
Oct 05, 2021 (AFP)
The death toll from the Category 4 storm was relatively limited, but its floods and winds caused considerable damage, with disruptions in the oil sector that ha...
Canary volcano zone residents flee danger but want to stay on
Oct 03, 2021 (AFP)
Everything changed when the island's Cumbre Vieja volcano began erupting on September 19. Wastel, 52, shares photos of what was once his home -- one of the firs...
In Venezuela, a village on stilts slowly succumbs to mud
Oct 03, 2021 (AFP)
Most of its residents have left, and Congo Mirador is slowly fading away. The river's source is in Colombia, and it flows into Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo, one o...
At least 9 dead as cyclone lashes Oman, Iran
Oct 03, 2021 (AFP)
In Oman, two people died in a landslide and a child in flash flooding, officials said. Rescue teams pulled the bodies of two Asian workers from their home hit b...
Seismic forensics and its importance for early warning
Oct 01, 2021 (SPX)
Although the ultimate trigger of the massive rockslide that initiated at an altitude of more than 5500 meters remains unresolved, one thing is certain: On Sunda...
La Palma lava flows into the sea
Oct 01, 2021 (ESA)
A crack opened in the Cumbre Vieja volcano on 19 September, throwing plumes of ash and lava into the air. Lava flowed down the mountain and through villages eng...
Ringside seat for fearful villagers as Canaries volcano spews fire
Oct 01, 2021 (AFP)
"There's nothing beautiful about it," grumbled Jose Carlos Bautista Martin, a pensioner of 70 who looked on agog with fellow villagers as the volcano continued ...
New U.N. tool designed to enhance flood prediction, disaster planning
Oct 01, 2021 (UPI)
The free online World Flood Mapping Tool is designed to help countries -- particularly those in the Global South, where flood risk maps are rare and often badly...
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupts
Sep 30, 2021 (AFP)
Lava fountains began appearing Wednesday on the surface of the crater's lava lake and have reached the "height of a 5-story building," the US Geological Survey ...
Thai flood victims 'start from zero' after killer storm
Sep 30, 2021 (AFP)
Flooding after tropical storm Dianmu has hit 31 provinces, killed seven people and inundated more than 215,000 households, authorities say. About 150 kilometres...
Canaries lava peninsula doubles in size as wind change raises risk
Sep 30, 2021 (AFP)
The newly wrought peninsula had doubled in size to 20 hectares (50 acres) since the morning, according to the Volcanic Institute of the Canaries (Involcan). Whi...
Seismic forensics could inform a warning system for future floods
Sep 30, 2021 (UPI)
On Feb. 7, 2021, a large rockslide trigged a deadly flood in India's Dhauli Ganga Valley. The rush of water killed more than 200 people and destroyed a pair of ...
La Palma flights resume as volcanic lava reaches sea
Sep 29, 2021 (AFP)
The dramatic eruption which began 10 days ago, has forced thousands out of their homes, with the lava destroying hundreds of homes, businesses and huge swathes ...
Canaries volcano lava reaches sea, raising toxic gas fears
Sep 29, 2021 (AFP)
The Spanish archipelago had earlier declared an exclusion zone of two nautical miles around the location the lava was expected to enter the Atlantic and asked r...
'Too much water': floods wreak misery in South Sudan
Sep 29, 2021 (AFP)
Barely 16 kilometres (10 miles) from the capital Juba, the devastation is apparent, with locals surrounded by water as they try to feed their children and find ...
Bangkok on alert as 70,000 homes flooded in Thailand
Sep 28, 2021 (AFP)
Tropical storm Dianmu has caused flooding in 30 provinces, with the kingdom's central region the worst hit, the Thai Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Departme...
Canaries volcano spews ash after brief pause
Sep 27, 2021 (AFP)
La Cumbre Vieja, which straddles a southern ridge in La Palma in the Atlantic archipelago, erupted on September 19, spewing out rivers of lava that have slowly ...
One dead in strong quake on Greek island of Crete
Sep 27, 2021 (AFP)
The quake, measuring magnitude 5.8 according to Greece's seismological observatory, sent panicked residents rushing into the streets and damaged buildings on Gr...
New lava lake lets DR Congo volcano 'breathe', experts say
Sep 26, 2021 (AFP)
Nyiragongo's eruption on May 22-23 spewed out lava that buried homes in its wake, stopping just short of the northern outskirts of Goma, a city of some 600,000 ...
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