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Cylcone Trevor causes Australia power outages, set to strengthen
Mar 20, 2019 (AFP)
Tropical Cyclone Trevor was a category 3 system -- with winds gusting at 165 kilometres (100 miles) per hour -- when it made landfall on the Cape York peninsula...
Indonesia flood death toll tops 100, dozens still missing
Mar 20, 2019 (AFP)
Nearly 10,000 people have moved to shelters while at least 104 victims are confirmed to have died and 79 are unaccounted for in the aftermath of the disaster, t...
Geothermal plant 'triggered earthquake' in S. Korea
Mar 20, 2019 (AFP)
The southeastern port city of Pohang was rattled by a 5.4-magnitude earthquake in November 2017 -- the second-most powerful tremor ever in the normally seismica...
Death toll from Mozambique, Zimbabwe floods exceeds 300 as UN boosts aid
Mar 19, 2019 (AFP)
"We already have more than 200 dead, and nearly 350,000 people are at risk," Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi announced, while the government in Zimbabwe said ...
Losses from US Midwest flooding seen above $1 bn
Mar 19, 2019 (AFP)
The flooding across a predominantly rural part of the country was caused by a big storm last week and rapid snow melt that swelled streams and rivers in large s...
Indonesia flood death toll rises to 89, dozens missing
Mar 19, 2019 (AFP)
Scores have also been injured in the disaster, triggered by torrential rain on Saturday, with some 6,800 people evacuated to temporary shelters. The military ha...
More than 1,000 feared dead in Mozambique storm
Mar 19, 2019 (AFP)
The city of Beira in central Mozambique bore Cyclone Idai's full wrath on Thursday before the storm barrelled on to neighbouring Zimbabwe, unleashing fierce win...
Baby reunited with dad as Indonesia flood death toll hits 79
Mar 18, 2019 (AFP)
The five-month old was plucked Sunday from debris inside a house where his mother and siblings were found dead in the hard-hit town of Sentani. The tot has sinc...
Parts of US Midwest deluged in historic deadly floods
Mar 18, 2019 (AFP)
Swollen waters hit much of Nebraska, as well as parts of Iowa, Wisconsin, and South Dakota, after a major storm last week dumped snow and rain, even as melting ...
Flash floods kill at least 58 in Indonesia's Papua
Mar 17, 2019 (AFP)
The death toll was expected to rise as emergency services struggled to reach people in hard-hit areas, with more than 70 people injured and 4,150 evacuated. The...
Cyclone Idai kills at least 31 as it hits eastern Zimbabwe
Mar 16, 2019 (AFP)
Most of the deaths were in Chimanimani town, Zimbabwe's information ministry announced on Twitter. Two of the victims were students who died after a landslide s...
New York to spend $500 million for Manhattan flood protection
Mar 15, 2019 (AFP)
It is allocating the funds to four projects aimed at protecting areas at risk on the southern tip of Manhattan. Among the projects is a permanent protective wal...
Mozambique cancels domestic flights as storm nears
Mar 14, 2019 (AFP)
The wave of cancellations came as the UN warned that "tropical cyclone Idai has regained intensity and is expected to make landfall near Beira city in central M...
Floods in southern Africa kill 115
Mar 13, 2019 (AFP)
At least 66 people have been killed in Mozambique, 45 in Malawi and four in South Africa following torrential rains that have triggered flash floods. Mozambique...
New earthquaking-sensing method could give earlier warnings
Mar 11, 2019 (UPI)
The new detection strategy could help earthquake warning systems sound an alarm before a quake begins, providing people more time to evacuate buildings and seek...
Floods kill 10 in Mozambique: UN
Mar 11, 2019 (AFP)
Six people died in the central Tete province in recent days while four were swept away in the coastal Zambezia province, the UN Office for the Coordination of H...
Twelve dead in Brazil floods
Mar 11, 2019 (AFP)
In the town of Riberao Pires on the periphery of the country's most populated city, four members of one family died and another two were injured when a house co...
Japan marks tsunami, nuclear tragedy eight years on
Mar 11, 2019 (AFP)
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, lawmakers and family members who lost their loved ones in the disaster bowed their heads in prayer at a ceremony in Tokyo at 2:46 pm ...
Two dead, hundreds evacuated amid severe Indonesia floods
Mar 08, 2019 (AFP)
Heavy rain has pounded Indonesia for days, forcing the Citarum river -- dubbed "the world's dirtiest" -- on Java island to burst its banks, and causing deadly f...
The biggest volcanic eruption of sulfur dioxide in 2018
Mar 04, 2019 (SPX)
The volcano injected 400,000 tons of sulfur dioxide into the upper troposphere and stratosphere during its most active phase in July, and a total of 600,000 ton...
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