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Sardinia floods kill at least three: reports
Nov 28, 2020 (AFP)
Two people were also missing in the north-central town of Bitti, in the province of Nuoro, and the authorities evacuated some residents from low-lying areas, It...
New Zealand volcano toll increases as anniversary nears
Nov 26, 2020 (AFP)
Police said Horst Westenfelder, 64, died on July 2 from medical complications arising from injuries sustained during the eruption. There were 47 people, mainly ...
Mass evacuations hailed for casualty-free India cyclone
Nov 26, 2020 (AFP)
Nivar made landfall at 3:05 am (2135 GMT) near Puducherry, packing gusts of up to 130 kilometres (80 miles) per hour, uprooting trees and bringing torrential ra...
Powerful cyclone buffets southern India pushing tens of thousands into shelters
Nov 25, 2020 (AFP)
The centre of Nivar made landfall at 3:05 am local time near Puducherry with winds of up to 130 kilometres (81 miles) per hour. Thousands of state and national ...
India's southeastern coast braces for powerful cyclone
Nov 24, 2020 (AFP)
Cyclone Nivar is set to cross the coasts of Tamil Nadu state and the small territory of Puducherry as a "very severe cyclonic storm" late Wednesday, the Indian ...
Central American states count cost of Iota amid search for bodies
Nov 20, 2020 (AFP)
Initial estimates by the United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, put the number of people affected by the hurricane at 4.6 million across the impoverished regio...
Heavy rains kill five in Colombia, six missing
Nov 19, 2020 (AFP)
A ravine near the city of Cucuta had overflowed and caused flooding "that devastated everything in its path," the South American country's disaster risk agency ...
Storm Iota leaves over 30 dead in Central America
Nov 19, 2020 (AFP)
Iota made landfall in Nicaragua as a "catastrophic" Category 5 hurricane Monday, but its remnants will continue to be deadly through Thursday even as 2020's big...
Iota, weakened but deadly, rips through Central America
Nov 18, 2020 (AFP)
Iota, which made landfall in Nicaragua as a "catastrophic" Category 5 hurricane Monday, left six dead in Nicaragua, two of them children who were trying to cros...
Piecing together the Alaska coastline's fractured volcanic activity
Nov 18, 2020 (SPX)
Plate tectonics - the constant underground movement of continental and ocean shelves, is often characterized by "subduction zones" where plates clash, one usual...
Hurricane Iota weakens to Category 4 on approach to Honduras
Nov 17, 2020 (AFP)
Authorities had been rushing to evacuate thousands of people from coastal areas of Nicaragua and Honduras, in the immediate path of the maximum-level hurricane....
Ancient storms could help predict shifts in tropical cyclone hotspots
Nov 16, 2020 (UPI)
The analysis showed that during the Little Ice Age, storms more frequently struck Jaluit Atoll in the southern Marshall Islands. The findings, published Monday ...
Retreating Glacier Presents Landslide Threat, Tsunami Risk in Alaskan Fjord
Nov 16, 2020 (SPX)
The Barry Arm Glacier has diminished rapidly in the last decade due to climate change, causing the surrounding terrain to become unstable. The researchers found...
Iota closing in on Central America; Vamco SE Asia death toll at 67
Nov 15, 2020 (AFP)
Iota strengthened to hurricane force early Sunday as it tracked westward over the Caribbean towards the Nicaragua-Honduras border. Maximum sustained are near 90...
Thousands flee as Typhoon Vamco nears Vietnam
Nov 14, 2020 (AFP)
Airports have been shut, beaches closed and a fishing ban put in place, as the country braces for winds of up to 100 kilometres (60 miles) per hour when the typ...
Hard-hit Central America in crosshairs of another hurricane
Nov 14, 2020 (AFP)
Eta killed more than 200 people across Central America, with heavy rain bursting river banks and triggering landslides as far north as Chiapas, Mexico. The US N...
Death toll in typhoon-hit Philippines rises to 14
Nov 13, 2020 (AFP)
Torrential rain dumped by Typhoon Vamco -- the third powerful storm to hit the country in as many weeks -- inundated low-lying areas of Manila and surrounding p...
Call for emergency help for flood-stricken Chad
Nov 12, 2020 (AFP)
Floods have hit the city's ninth district, on its southern fringes, after the swollen Chari river burst through dikes, the International Organization for Migrat...
Thousands flee as yet another typhoon menaces Philippines
Nov 11, 2020 (AFP)
Vamco grazed Catanduanes Island -- which was devastated by Typhoon Goni less than two weeks ago -- as it neared the most populous island of Luzon where it was e...
Warmer seas keep hurricanes stronger for longer, study says
Nov 11, 2020 (AFP)
Researchers warn the finding suggests inland communities -- which may be less prepared than coastal regions to face hurricanes -- are increasingly at risk. The ...
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