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Myanmar villagers fight floods with just sand bags and hope
Aug 06, 2015 (AFP)
Myanmar's president called Thursday for the evacuation of low-lying areas as the Irrawaddy river threatened to breach embankments, leaving villagers with just s...
Protesters leave as Taiwan readies for year's biggest typhoon
Aug 06, 2015 (AFP)
Students who have been camping outside Taiwan's education ministry for almost a week to protest curriculum changes said Thursday they were packing up, as the co...
Hurricane season expected to be weaker than normal
Aug 06, 2015 (AFP)
US weather forcasters said Thursday there is a 90 percent chance that the 2015 hurricane season in the Atlantic, which runs through November 1, will be less act...
Connecting people and geology on volcanoes
Aug 04, 2015 (SPX)
In October 2011, heavy rainfall poured down the sides of El Salvador's San Vicente Volcano, nearly four feet of water in 12 days. Coffee plantation employees, w...
At least 180 dead, a million displaced in India floods
Aug 04, 2015 (AFP)
Floods from days of torrential rain have now claimed at least 180 lives in India with one million people sheltering in relief camps after fleeing surging waters...
Soudelor targets Japan, China as most powerful storm of 2015
Aug 04, 2015 (AFP)
Super Typhoon Soudelor developed into the world's most powerful storm of the year Tuesday as it took aim at Japan, Taiwan and China after trashing the Northern ...
Study offers new insights on hurricane intensity, pollution transport
Aug 04, 2015 (SPX)
As tropical storm Isaac was gaining momentum toward the Mississippi River in August 2012, University of Miami (UM) researchers were dropping instruments from th...
Hundreds dead, millions displaced as monsoon rains heap misery on Asia
Aug 03, 2015 (AFP)
Monsoon rains have claimed hundreds of lives across Asia, authorities reported Monday, as rescuers scrambled to reach remote areas of India, Pakistan and Myanma...
Myanmar rescuers race to flood zones as toll mounts
Aug 03, 2015 (AFP)
Rescuers raced Monday to help tens of thousands stranded by rooftop-high floods in Myanmar, as the UN warned that swollen rivers threaten more areas and large s...
UN warns Myanmar flood toll to rise as rains lash region
Aug 02, 2015 (AFP)
The toll from flash floods and landslides in Myanmar caused by days of torrential rain is likely to rise, the UN warned Sunday, as monsoon downpours heaped mise...
20 feared dead in India landslide
Aug 02, 2015 (AFP)
Rescuers were searching Sunday for 20 villagers feared killed in a landslide in remote northeast India, as the death toll from recent floods elsewhere in the co...
Severe flooding hampers rescue efforts in Myanmar, at least 27 dead
Aug 01, 2015 (AFP)
Severe flooding across Myanmar hampered rescue efforts on Saturday as thousands sheltered at monasteries after rising waters triggered by torrential rains kille...
Twin volcanic chains above a single hotspot with distinct roots
Jul 29, 2015 (SPX)
Located in the South Atlantic, thousands of kilometers away from the nearest populated country, Tristan da Cunha is one of the remotest inhabited islands on ear...
The reasons behind increases in urban flooding
Jul 29, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists at the University of South Florida's College of Marine Science investigating the increasing risk of 'compound flooding' for major U.S. cities have fo...
At least 26 dead in flash floods in western India
Jul 29, 2015 (AFP)
Flash floods triggered by torrential monsoon rain have killed at least 26 people in a west Indian state in the past 48 hours, authorities said Wednesday. The ra...
Earhquake rocks Colombia near Panama border
Jul 29, 2015 (AFP)
A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 rocked northern Colombia near its border with Panama on Tuesday, authorities said, though there were no immediate ...
Teenager killed, buildings damaged in Indonesian quake
Jul 28, 2015 (AFP)
A powerful earthquake rocked remote eastern Indonesia on Tuesday, killing a teenage boy who fell into a river as he fished and damaging several buildings. The 7...
Scripps researchers map out trajectory of April 2015 earthquake in Nepal
Jul 28, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have accurately mapped out the movement of the devastating 7.8-magnitude Nepal earthquake t...
Rains, floods kill 81 in Pakistan: disaster agency
Jul 28, 2015 (AFP)
Torrential rains and flooding have killed 81 people in Pakistan over the past two weeks and affected almost 300,000, the disaster management agency said Tuesday...
Volcanic ash forces airport closures in Colombia
Jul 26, 2015 (AFP)
Colombia's Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupted in an ash cloud on Sunday, prompting authorities to temporarily close two airports in the area. The civil aeronautics...
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