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Danny becomes first hurricane of Atlantic season
Aug 20, 2015 (AFP)
Tropical Storm Danny was upgraded to a hurricane Thursday, the first of the Atlantic season, strengthening slightly as it barreled through the Caribbean, foreca...
Helium anomaly preceded Mount Ontake eruption
Aug 20, 2015 (SPX)
University of Tokyo researchers discovered an increase in a helium isotope during a ten-year period before the 2014 Mount Ontake eruption in central Japan. The ...
Tropical Storm Danny could be hurricane by Friday: US forecasters
Aug 19, 2015 (AFP)
Tropical storm Danny gathered strength over the Atlantic Ocean Wednesday, and forecasters warned it could become a hurricane by the end of the week, though it r...
'Resilient' New Orleans can bear another Katrina: mayor
Aug 18, 2015 (AFP)
The mayor of New Orleans expressed confidence Tuesday in his city's ability to weather an equally mighty storm, a decade after it was savagely devastated by Hur...
Cotopaxi volcano threatens more than 300,000 Ecuadorans
Aug 17, 2015 (AFP)
Nearly 325,000 people could be affected by an eruption of Cotopaxi, the volcano looming beyond the Ecuadoran capital of Quito, officials said Monday. The bigges...
Uruguay flooding forces 4,000 from their homes
Aug 17, 2015 (AFP)
Flooding from days of heavy rain in Uruguay has forced nearly 4,000 people from their homes, officials said Monday. In the central province of Durazno, the Yi R...
Four dead, more than 20,000 affected by Niger floods: UN
Aug 15, 2015 (AFP)
At least four people have died and more than 20,000 have been affected by floods in Niger caused by weeks of heavy rain, the United Nations said Friday. The bad...
Ecuador villages evacuated as Cotopaxi volcano rumbles to life
Aug 15, 2015 (AFP)
Ecuador's President Rafael Correa declared a state of emergency Saturday as the dangerous Cotopaxi volcano rumbled to life and prompted evacuation orders in sev...
Carbon dioxide-spewing volcano drives reef from coral to algae
Aug 14, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists from NOAA and the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sci...
Three dead after Morocco flash flood
Aug 13, 2015 (AFP)
A woman and two girls have been found dead after they went missing in a flash flood caused by torrential rain in central Morocco, authorities said Thursday. The...
Volcanic vents preview future ocean habitats
Aug 13, 2015 (SPX)
A world-first underwater study of fish in their natural environment by University of Adelaide marine ecologists has shown how predicted ocean acidification from...
Sleepless and swamped in Myanmar's floods
Aug 12, 2015 (AFP)
Every night Aung Myo Tun climbs onto the raised platform where he sleeps with his wife, six children and mother-in-law, listening in growing panic to the sound ...
Five missing after Morocco flash flood
Aug 11, 2015 (AFP)
Five people have gone missing after torrential rain hit Morocco's central region of Azilal, the authorities said. "Three women and two little girls were reporte...
Typhoon Soudelor death toll rises to 21 in China: govt
Aug 10, 2015 (AFP)
The number of people killed by Typhoon Soudelor in China rose to 21 on Monday, authorities said, with five more missing. Four died on Monday as the storm -- dow...
Taiwanese hot spring town still cut off after typhoon
Aug 10, 2015 (AFP)
Taiwanese authorities were rushing to repair roads in the mountainous hot spring town of Wulai on Monday, where 1,100 people were without electricity or water a...
Myanmar flood death toll tops 100, one million affected
Aug 10, 2015 (AFP)
The death toll from severe flooding across Myanmar has topped 100, state media reported Monday, with nearly one million people affected as fears intensify for t...
Typhoon churns towards China after killing five in Taiwan
Aug 08, 2015 (AFP)
Typhoon Soudelor moved towards China on Saturday, weaker but still packing a punch, after killing at least five people and leaving a trail of destruction in Tai...
Everest trek route suffered minimal quake damage: study
Aug 07, 2015 (AFP)
The vast majority of guesthouses and trails on the popular Mount Everest trekking route emerged unscathed from Nepal's devastating earthquake, said an assessmen...
NSF awards grants for study of Nepal earthquake
Aug 07, 2015 (SPX)
The Himalayas: These forbidding peaks in South Asia, which reach more than 29,000 feet and include Mount Everest, mark one of Earth's youngest mountain ranges. ...
Myanmar flood death toll climbs to 88
Aug 07, 2015 (AFP)
The death toll from severe flooding across Myanmar has risen to 88, officials said on Friday, as rising waters swallowed more homes in low-lying regions in some...
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