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Tropical Storm Lidia heads for Mexican resort; Irma to remain powerful hurricane for days
Sep 01, 2017 (AFP)
Lidia formed Wednesday in the Pacific Ocean and was already wreaking havoc along the coast and causing downpours as far inland as Mexico City ahead of its expec...
Deadly storm tells tale of two cities in Macau
Sep 01, 2017 (AFP)
Images of people desperately trying to cope with shoulder-high flood waters, torn up roads and smashed buildings gave a window into the lives of the ordinary ci...
Most of Houston 'now dry,' as recovery begins
Sep 01, 2017 (AFP)
"Most of the city is now dry," Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner told MSNBC. "And so we're turning to recovery and housing, especially for individuals whose homes ...
6.2-magnitude quake hits western Indonesia
Aug 31, 2017 (AFP)
The quake hit the Mentawai islands in West Sumatra province about 75 kilometres (46 miles) southwest of the provincial capital Padang at 00:06 am (1706 GMT), at...
Machine-learning earthquake prediction in lab shows promise
Aug 31, 2017 (SPX)
"At any given instant, the noise coming from the lab fault zone provides quantitative information on when the fault will slip," said Paul Johnson, a Los Alamos ...
'Tsunami-sunk' Roman ruins discovered in Tunisia
Aug 31, 2017 (AFP)
"It's a major discovery," Mounir Fantar, the head of a Tunisian-Italian archaeological mission which made the find off the coast of Nabeul, told AFP. He said an...
Nigeria floods displace more than 100,000
Aug 31, 2017 (AFP)
"I have received with great concern reports of the flooding in Benue State, displacing, from early estimates, more than 100,000 people," Buhari wrote on Twitter...
'Bigger and stronger' storms on the horizon: experts
Aug 30, 2017 (AFP)
Here are their answers to questions about the link between climate change and the tropical storms known variously around the world as cyclones, hurricanes and t...
Heavy rains kill five in India's financial hub
Aug 30, 2017 (AFP)
The coastal city of more than 20 million people is the latest to be hit by floods that have ravaged South Asia this monsoon season, affecting millions of people...
Storm Irma heads for Caribbean, likely to become hurricane
Aug 30, 2017 (AFP)
Irma is currently some 480 miles (770 kilometers) west of Cape Verde, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said in its 2100 GMT bulletin. It has maximum su...
Harvey floodwaters climb as Texas rescuers scramble to find survivors
Aug 30, 2017 (AFP)
Five days after the monster storm slammed onshore as a Category Four hurricane, turning roads into rivers and neighborhoods into lakes in America's fourth-large...
Texas flood disaster by the numbers
Aug 30, 2017 (AFP)
The storm continues to pour rain as it heads slowly through neighboring Louisiana. - How much rain? - Up to 52 inches (132 centimeters) of rain fell from Saturd...
Macau weather agency under investigation for delayed typhoon warning
Aug 29, 2017 (AFP)
The destruction wrought by the typhoon, which killed at least 10 people, prompted the resignation of Macau's weather chief, an apology from the city's leader an...
What we know about monster storm Harvey
Aug 28, 2017 (AFP)
Here is what we know about the deadly storm, which has devastated swathes of Texas and is continuing to linger over the area: - Harvey: an unpredictable monster...
Second storm hits Hong Kong and Macau amid typhoon recovery
Aug 27, 2017 (AFP)
Both cities raised a Typhoon 8 signal -- the third-highest warning level -- early Sunday as severe tropical storm "Pakhar" made landfall in the region, where em...
Thousands urged to evacuate capital after rains
Aug 27, 2017 (AFP)
"I am calling on all residents to evacuate the flood zones and immediately leave homes that are close to collapsing," the governor of the Niamey region, Soumana...
Cyclones and climate change: connecting the dots
Aug 27, 2017 (AFP)
But what they do know is enough to keep them up at night. The amplifying impact of sea level rise, warming oceans, and hotter air -- all incontrovertible conseq...
Houston battles massive floods as Harvey dumps rain on Texas
Aug 27, 2017 (AFP)
The city's two main airports suspended all commercial flights and a major hospital was forced to evacuate patients after flooding in its basement disrupted powe...
Millions brace as Hurricane Harvey menaces Texas, Louisiana
Aug 25, 2017 (AFP)
The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned that Harvey was "rapidly intensifying" and creating a potential for "life-threatening and devastating" floods as i...
Death toll from South Asia flooding tops 1,000
Aug 24, 2017 (AFP)
Thousands of soldiers and emergency personnel have been deployed across India, Bangladesh and Nepal, where authorities say a total of 1,013 bodies have been rec...
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