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Hurricane season breaks record for number of named storms; Honduras toll hits 57
Nov 10, 2020 (AFP)
The cyclonic storms, which are given named status in the Atlantic when their wind speeds exceed 62 kilometres per hour (39 miles per hour), have already displac...
WFP earmarks funds as flooding hits thousands in Congo
Nov 09, 2020 (AFP)
"To date, 83,000 people are concerned in six districts in Likouala department. Other districts along the Congo River and Ubangi could be hit in the coming days,...
Eta toll rises to at least 57 in hard-hit Honduras; Next up Florida Keys
Nov 09, 2020 (AFP)
Honduras is one of the countries worst hit by the storm, which slammed into Central America last week as a Category 4 hurricane. Some 200 people are dead or mis...
Storm Eta death tolls rise in Mexico, Honduras
Nov 08, 2020 (AFP)
And authorities in Honduras said flooding in the north and northwest caused by torrential downpours had now left 23 people dead after another 10 people lost the...
Crystals reveal the danger of sleeping volcanoes
Nov 06, 2020 (SPX)
The scientists used zircon, a tiny crystal contained in volcanic rocks, to estimate the volume of magma that could be erupted once Nevado de Toluca volcano (Mex...
Storm Eta takes a heavy toll as it tears across Central America
Nov 06, 2020 (AFP)
Eta struck the Caribbean coast of northern Nicaragua as a Category 4 hurricane on Tuesday, tearing through impoverished coastal areas and sweeping away whole vi...
Death and destruction as Eta batters Central America
Nov 05, 2020 (AFP)
At least four people -- two in Nicaragua and two in Honduras -- were killed as Eta dumped heavy rain that unleashed widespread flooding and landslides, official...
Magma 'conveyor belt' fuelled world's longest erupting supervolcanoes
Nov 05, 2020 (SPX)
It's believed this magma 'conveyor belt,' created by shifts in the seabed, continuously made space available for the molten rock to flow for millions of years, ...
Three dead as Category 2 hurricane Eta batters Nicaragua
Nov 04, 2020 (AFP)
The hurricane, which dropped from a Category 4 storm earlier in the day as it moved inland, hammered impoverished indigenous communities along the coast and cau...
Furious Category Four hurricane Eta smashes into Nicaragua
Nov 03, 2020 (AFP)
The hurricane, which intensified rapidly from a Category 1 storm on Monday over the warm waters of the Caribbean, hammered impoverished indigenous communities a...
Philippine island left without power after deadly typhoon: Red Cross
Nov 03, 2020 (AFP)
Eight towns on Catanduanes were cut off and an estimated 25,000 houses destroyed by Typhoon Goni, which was packing winds of 225 kilometres (140 miles) per hour...
Central America braces as Hurricane Eta builds to Category 4
Nov 03, 2020 (AFP)
The hurricane was packing winds of 150 miles (240 kilometers) an hour as it barrelled across the Caribbean towards landfall northeast of the Nicaraguan coastal ...
Drones gather data from unexplored volcanoes to better forecast eruptions
Nov 02, 2020 (SPX)
The cutting-edge research at Manam volcano in Papua New Guinea is also improving scientists' understanding of how volcanoes contribute to the global carbon cycl...
New drone technology improves ability to forecast volcanic eruptions
Nov 02, 2020 (SPX)
The cutting-edge research at Manam volcano in Papua New Guinea is improving scientists' understanding of how volcanoes contribute to the global carbon cycle, ke...
20 dead after Typhoon Goni batters Philippines
Nov 02, 2020 (AFP)
Catanduanes Island and nearby Albay province on the most populous island of Luzon bore the brunt of Typhoon Goni which was packing maximum sustained wind speeds...
Scores dead as Goni batters Philippines; Eta intensifies as Nicaragua issues warning
Nov 01, 2020 (AFP)
The strongest typhoon of the year also triggered deadly landslides that buried a number of houses in the southern part of the most populous island of Luzon, off...
Quake death toll rises to 69 in Turkey
Nov 01, 2020 (AFP)
The 7.0-magnitude quake also injured 940 people, the Turkish emergency authority AFAD said, after it struck on Friday afternoon near the west coast town of Sefe...
Zeta hits Louisiana coast; 2 dead as Molave slams into Vietnam
Oct 29, 2020 (AFP)
Zeta weakened as it moved into southeastern Mississippi, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC), but was still packing sustained winds of 90 miles (14...
Using a volcano's eruption 'memory' to forecast dangerous follow-on explosions
Oct 29, 2020 (SPX)
Occasionally, however, more intense and sudden explosions occur, most recently in July and August last year (2019). These are known as 'Strombolian paroxysms'. ...
Zeta slams into southern US, downgraded to tropical storm
Oct 29, 2020 (AFP)
Zeta, which was downgraded to a tropical storm during Thursday's early hours, would "continue to spread well inland across portions of northeastern Alabama, nor...
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