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Isaias lashes US east coast with fierce winds, heavy rain
Aug 04, 2020 (AFP)
Packing sustained winds of 85 miles per hour (around 140 kilometers per hour), the Category 1 hurricane made landfall in the southern part of the state on Monda...
Five killed in Sudan floods: interior minister
Aug 03, 2020 (AFP)
Nearly 3,500 houses were affected by floods caused by heavy rains on Friday and Saturday, interior minister Eltrafi Elsdik said in a statement. Four of the peop...
Threat to Florida eases as Isaias slated to remain tropical storm
Aug 03, 2020 (AFP)
The tropical storm was packing sustained winds of 70 miles (110 kilometers) per hour Sunday evening as it moved northwest off the state's east coast, the Nation...
Florida braces for hurricane conditions as Isaias approaches
Aug 02, 2020 (AFP)
Isaias is threatening to trigger a storm surge and flash flooding in parts of Florida, the National Hurricane Center said Sunday, adding that "preparations to p...
Children killed as floods ravage Afghan village
Aug 01, 2020 (AFP)
Flooding caused by torrential rains struck a village in Nangarhar province late on Friday, district governor Naimatullah Noorzai told AFP. He said 16 people, in...
Growing toll from monsoon floods hampers South Asia virus efforts
Jul 30, 2020 (AFP)
The torrential downpours across the densely populated region are critical to replenishing rivers and groundwater, but also cause widespread death and destructio...
Indian capital launches earthquake awareness drive
Jul 30, 2020 (AFP)
Experts said a major quake is unlikely but not impossible and could kill hundreds of thousands in the crowded megacity of 20 million. An awareness campaign laun...
Floods may cost 20% of global GDP by 2100: study
Jul 30, 2020 (AFP)
While much is known about the potential for global sea levels to rise as burning fossil fuels heats the planet and melts its frozen spaces, far less research lo...
Historically stable volcanoes can host potentially explosive magmas
Jul 29, 2020 (UPI)
Some volcanoes remain mostly quiet, until they don't, exploding violently -- decades of dormancy punctuated by deadly eruptions. Other volcanoes, like those fou...
Tropical storm warning issued for Puerto Rico as cyclone approaches
Jul 28, 2020 (AFP)
The storm is expected to touch down in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. The cyclone system is packing winds of 40 miles (65 kilometers) per hour, according to the Nati...
Douglas downgraded to tropical storm after skirting Hawaii
Jul 28, 2020 (AFP)
The tropical storm was moving westward past the Hawaiian islands, packing winds of 70 miles (110 kilometers) per hour, according to the National Hurricane Cente...
2020's first hurricane roars ashore in virus-hit Texas
Jul 26, 2020 (AFP)
The Category 1 storm was packing winds of around 90 miles (145 kilometers) per hour as it came ashore at Padre Island at 5 pm (2200 GMT), the US National Hurric...
Mapping the Oaxaca earthquake from space
Jul 24, 2020 (ESA)
Mexico is one of the world's most seismically active regions, sitting on top of three of Earth's largest tectonic plates - the North American, Cocos and Pacific...
Growing storm could be Atlantic's first hurricane of season
Jul 22, 2020 (AFP)
The system, named Gonzalo, was bearing west and picking up speed but remained some 1,200 miles (1,900 kilometers) out in the Atlantic from the southern Windward...
Europe flooding period worst in 500 years: study
Jul 22, 2020 (AFP)
A pan-European team of researchers spent more than eight years poring over nearly 10,000 records of flood events stretching back to 1500. They found that not on...
Bangladesh faces further flood crisis in monsoon-hit South Asia
Jul 21, 2020 (AFP)
In flood-prone Bangladesh -- where almost one-third of the impoverished nation is underwater -- officials warned of an extended disaster in one of the worst del...
Bangladesh, Nepal warn of rising rivers as monsoon toll rises
Jul 19, 2020 (AFP)
Torrential rains during the monsoon season between June and September trigger floods, landslides and lightning strikes across the region, with hundreds dying ev...
Yangtze floods force millions from their homes in central China
Jul 17, 2020 (AFP)
Heavy rains since June have left at least 141 people dead and missing, forced nearly 15 million people to be evacuated from their homes in July alone, and cause...
Indonesian rescuers hunt for dozens missing after floods kill 36
Jul 17, 2020 (AFP)
More than 14,000 people left homeless by the disaster have taken refuge at temporary shelters in hard-hit North Luwu regency, with the country's search and resc...
North Sea sediment analysis helps scientists reconstruct ancient tsunami
Jul 16, 2020 (UPI)
During the mid-holocene, a marine inundation swept away Doggerland, and Britain became separated from the mainland by the North Sea. To better understand the ts...
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