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China rushes to contain floods after record rainfall
Jul 14, 2020 (AFP)
The vast Yangtze drainage area has been lashed by torrential rains since last month, leaving 141 people dead or missing and forcing the evacuation of millions m...
Third of Bangladesh underwater as monsoon drenches region
Jul 14, 2020 (AFP)
The monsoon -- which usually falls from June to September -- is crucial to the economy of the Indian sub-continent, but also causes widespread death and destruc...
Conditions ripe for active Atlantic hurricane season, Amazon fires
Jul 13, 2020 (SPX)
Variations in ocean sea surface temperatures alter weather patterns around the world. In the case of the Atlantic Ocean, warmer surface waters near the equator ...
Chinese rivers and lakes swell perilously as summer flood season crests
Jul 13, 2020 (AFP)
The coronavirus ground zero of Wuhan, through which the Yangtze River winds, is on an expanding list of population centres watching warily as the powerful river...
Japan PM pledges billions for flood-hit region
Jul 13, 2020 (AFP)
The torrential rain started early this month in southwestern Kyushu and later hit central Japan. It prompted evacuation orders for hundreds of thousands of peop...
Ridgecrest temblors increase chance of San Andreas earthquake
Jul 13, 2020 (UPI)
The likelihood is higher because the 2019 temblors in Ridgecrest, Calif., "stressed the Garlock Fault," and the Garlock Fault links the Ridgecrest faults with t...
Quake rattles Chinese city hit by massive 1976 disaster
Jul 12, 2020 (AFP)
Sunday's tremor occurred at 6:38 am (2238 GMT), the USGS said, with the epicentre in a suburban residential district just outside downtown Tangshan, about 200 k...
Venice completes first test of all flood barriers
Jul 10, 2020 (AFP)
The massive infrastructure project known as MOSE, which relies on sluice gates that can be raised to protect the city's lagoon during high tides, has been under...
Japan rescuers battle to reach thousands trapped by floods
Jul 09, 2020 (AFP)
In the scenic tourist area of Gifu in central Japan, officials said landslides and floodwater had left just nearly 1,000 households stranded -- or around 2,300 ...
Rain pounds central Japan, 55 feared dead in south
Jul 08, 2020 (AFP)
Rains that began early Saturday on the island of Kyushu have already caused widespread damage across a swathe of the southwestern portion of the country, causin...
50 dead in Japan floods as rescuers 'race against time'
Jul 07, 2020 (AFP)
Japan's Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued its second-highest emergency warning for heavy rain and landslides over vast swathes of the country's southwest and s...
Typhoon changed earthquake patterns
Jul 03, 2020 (SPX)
This has now been shown for Taiwan by researchers from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in cooperation with international colleagues. They report ...
How volcanoes explode in the deep sea
Jul 03, 2020 (SPX)
"So even under layers of water kilometers thick, which exert great pressure and thus prevent effective degassing, there must be mechanisms that lead to an 'expl...
More than a million hit by India monsoon floods
Jun 29, 2020 (AFP)
Flooding is an annual phenomenon in India's northeast, claiming hundreds of lives each year. "The flood situation is grim in Assam. More than a million people h...
12 killed as rainstorms batter southern China
Jun 29, 2020 (AFP)
The toll from the heavy rainstorm in Mianning county included two people who died when several vehicles plunged into a river after flooding damaged a highway. T...
New research reveals how water in the deep Earth triggers earthquakes and tsunamis
Jun 26, 2020 (SPX)
Water (H2O) and other volatiles (e.g. CO2 and sulphur) that are cycled through the deep Earth have played a key role in the evolution of our planet, including i...
Sahara dust cloud looms over Cuba, Caribbean and Florida
Jun 25, 2020 (AFP)
The dust cloud swept across the Atlantic from Africa over the past week, covering the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico since Sunday and hitting south Florida in ...
Mexico quake death toll rises to 10
Jun 25, 2020 (AFP)
The 7.4-magnitude quake, which was followed by more than 1,500 aftershocks, was felt in Mexico City, some 700 kilometers (430 miles) away from the epicenter in ...
Satellites have drastically changed how we forecast hurricanes
Jun 23, 2020 (SPX)
This video looks at advances in hurricane forecasting in the 120 years since, with a focus on the contributions from weather satellites. This satellite technolo...
Eruption of Alaska's Okmok volcano linked to period of extreme cold in ancient Rome
Jun 23, 2020 (SPX)
Around the time of Julius Caesar's death in 44 BCE, written sources describe a period of unusually cold climate, crop failures, famine, disease, and unrest in t...
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