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Vanuatu orders volcano-hit island to evacuate again
Jul 27, 2018 (AFP)
A series of eruptions at the Manaro volcano that began last September intensified this week, sending a 12 kilometre (7.5 mile) column of ash spewing into the at...
Typhoon barrels towards flood-hit western Japan
Jul 27, 2018 (AFP)
Typhoon Jongdari is currently packing winds of nearly 200 kilometres (125 miles) an hour and is forecast to hit the country's main island on Saturday night, Jap...
After fires, floods hit Greek capital
Jul 26, 2018 (AFP)
Fire services said they received at least 10 calls from motorists whose vehicles were stranded when roads became rivers after storms in the upscale districts of...
Texas AM study: Sahara dust may make you cough, but it's a storm killer
Jul 23, 2018 (SPX)
Research from a team of scientists led by Texas AM University has studied Saharan dust and their work is published in the current issue of the Journal of Climat...
Death toll in Vietnam flooding rises to 19
Jul 22, 2018 (AFP)
Boasting a long coastline, tropical Vietnam is battered by floods and storms every year, with hundreds of lives lost from the annual monsoon barrage. The remnan...
NSF-supported researchers to present new results on hurricanes and other extreme events
Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)
In recent decades, however, the over-pumping of groundwater, combined with drought, has caused some aquifers to permanently lose their essential storage capacit...
Indonesia's 'child' of Krakatoa spews ash and lava
Jul 19, 2018 (AFP)
Anak Krakatau -- a small volcanic island that emerged from the ocean a half century after Krakatoa's deadly 1883 eruption -- has rumbled back to life in recent ...
Official Guatemala volcano death toll rises to 121
Jul 18, 2018 (AFP)
The five bodies were those of young people aged two months to 19 years, said the National Institute of Forensic Sciences (INACIF). Two had been on the list of t...
Flooding kills 49 in northern Nigeria
Jul 17, 2018 (AFP)
Five villages in Jibia district were affected after a river burst its banks after hours of heavy rains overnight Sunday, Aminu Waziri, the head of the Katsina s...
'Lava bomb' from Hawaii volcano injures 23 on boat
Jul 17, 2018 (AFP)
Thirteen of them required hospitalization and the rest were treated at a harbor when the boat engaged in a "lava tour" returned to the Big Island, also known as...
Researchers link coastal nuisance flooding to special type of slow-moving ocean wave
Jul 16, 2018 (SPX)
"We've known for a long time that sea level is rising and that there are also important fluctuations happening on different time scales, including seasonal vari...
Japan PM meets rain disaster survivors, pledges more aid
Jul 13, 2018 (AFP)
The toll from the record rainfall has continued to rise, as rescue workers dig through the debris and find the remains of dozens of people reported missing. Top...
Japan tackles clean-up as rains toll tops 200
Jul 12, 2018 (AFP)
Operations were under way to dig out and clear up after the devastating floods and landslides that engulfed entire neighbourhoods. But with around 60 people sti...
Mexico earthquake unearths ancient temple
Jul 12, 2018 (AFP)
The temple, dedicated to a deity called Tlaloc and located within the Teopanzolco pyramid in Cuernavaca, Morelos state, belonged to the region's Tlahuica cultur...
Japan PM meets stranded evacuees in flood disaster zone
Jul 11, 2018 (AFP)
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who cancelled a foreign trip planned for this week as the disaster worsened, met some of the thousands of people still in shelters du...
Hurricane Chris weakens on way to Newfoundland
Jul 11, 2018 (AFP)
The center of the storm is expected to pass near or over southeastern Newfoundland on Thursday afternoon or evening, when it will likely become a strong post-tr...
Taiwan spared as Typhoon Maria weakens
Jul 11, 2018 (AFP)
Officials had warned of floods and landslides, evacuating thousands of people, but the storm weakened as it approached Taiwan and moved past it to the north. Do...
Forced from home by floods, Japanese go back to school
Jul 11, 2018 (AFP)
"In the classroom, all the desks and chairs have been moved to the sides, and people I've never seen before are staying inside," she mumbled. "It's really weird...
Japan rescuers go house to house as flood toll hits 141
Jul 10, 2018 (AFP)
The record downpours that began last week have stopped and receding flood waters have laid bare the destruction that has cut a swathe through the west of the co...
Evacuations as Taiwan braces for Typhoon Maria
Jul 10, 2018 (AFP)
Maria was 310 kilometres (190 miles) east of the northeastern coastal town of Yilan packing gusts of up to 173 kilometres an hour as of 5:00 pm (0900 GMT), the ...
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