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Harnessing nature's defenses against tsunamis
Dec 13, 2019 (SPX)
An international research team led by the University of Gottingen has now compared the effects of man-made and ecosystem protection to propose a hybrid approach...
Skin grafts: A look at efforts to save burned volcano victims
Dec 12, 2019 (AFP)
Here are four key questions about the work to treat the surviving patients. Why is the skin needed? Skin -- the body's largest organ -- holds our muscles, bones...
Fears of further eruption as New Zealand volcano toll climbs
Dec 12, 2019 (AFP)
Police said two people died in hospital overnight, taking the confirmed number of fatalities to eight, with the bodies of another eight people believed to be on...
'Catastrophic' floods could provoke famine in S.Sudan: WFP
Dec 12, 2019 (AFP)
According to the UN refugee agency nearly one million people were affected by floodwaters that submerged entire towns, compounding an already dire humanitarian ...
NZ military set for risky mission to retrieve bodies from volcano
Dec 12, 2019 (AFP)
Teams will move in "shortly after first light" on Friday, deputy police commissioner Mike Clement said, despite volcanologists warning that the chances of anoth...
Volcano F is the origin of the floating stones
Dec 10, 2019 (SPX)
An unusually large amount of it is currently drifting in the Southwest Pacific towards Australia. When it was first sighted in the waters of the island state of...
New Zealand volcano still too dangerous to remove bodies
Dec 10, 2019 (AFP)
Monday's explosion at the popular tourist attraction off the North Island coast resulted in six deaths and authorities believe the remains of eight others liste...
Carbon emissions from volcanic rocks can create global warming - study
Dec 09, 2019 (SPX)
Scientists' calculations based on how carbon-based greenhouse gas levels link to movements of magma just below earth's surface suggest that such geological chan...
Scores dead, and many tourists injured after New Zealand volcanic island erupts
Dec 09, 2019 (AFP)
Police said some 50 people were visiting White Island when it exploded suddenly in the early afternoon -- hurling ash and rock high into the air. Two dozen peop...
'Unfathomable grief' as 13 feared dead in New Zealand eruption
Dec 09, 2019 (AFP)
Ardern confirmed five fatalities and said another eight people were still missing after Monday's tragedy at White Island. There was little hope of finding the m...
One dead, tourists stranded as New Zealand volcano erupts
Dec 09, 2019 (AFP)
Around 50 people, including cruise passengers and foreigners, were believed to be on or around White Island at the time it erupted. Police said 23 have come bac...
Philippines floods force 66,000 from homes
Dec 06, 2019 (AFP)
Luzon island, the nation's largest, has been hit by a string of storms that have battered its northern tip while monsoon rains were intensified by the passage o...
Volcanic rock movements caused dramatic shift in climate 55 million years ago
Dec 05, 2019 (UPI)
To better understand the geological origins of this warming period, scientists designed models to simulate the greenhouse gas emissions produced by Large igneou...
Typhoon Kammuri death toll hits 13 in Philippines
Dec 05, 2019 (AFP)
Kammuri's fierce winds toppled trees and flattened flimsy homes across a swathe of the nation's north on Tuesday, and forced a rare 12-hour shutdown of Manila's...
Atmospheric rivers cost American West $1 billion a year in flood damage
Dec 05, 2019 (UPI)
In a study published this week in the journal Science Advances, scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego ...
Typhoon Kammuri death toll rises to four in Philippines
Dec 04, 2019 (AFP)
Typhoon Kammuri wreaked havoc on islands and provinces south of the capital Manila on Tuesday, sending nearly 600,000 people fleeing their homes, civil defence ...
Typhoon Kammuri pounds Philippines, forces Manila airport closure
Dec 03, 2019 (AFP)
The powerful storm, which blew in windows and sheared off roofs, roared ashore late Monday and was due to pass south of Manila -- home to some 13 million people...
Typhoon Kammuri kills two in Philippines, closes Manila airport
Dec 03, 2019 (AFP)
The storm roared ashore late Monday and passed south of Manila -- home to 13 million people -- and thousands of athletes at the regional Southeast Asian Games. ...
Earthquake risk perception: A picture is worth a thousand stats
Dec 03, 2019 (SPX)
Seismic engineers and psychologists from UBC teamed up with a visual artist to create an image showing what a Vancouver elementary school would look like after ...
Thousands flee as Typhoon Kammuri churns towards Philippines
Dec 02, 2019 (AFP)
Kammuri is expected to make landfall late Monday or early Tuesday in the nation's east with heavy rains and wind gusts of up to 185 kilometres (115 miles) per h...
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