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Tsunami-hit Japanese town gets huge Christmas gift
Dec 25, 2012 (AFP)
A small Japanese town devastated by last year's quake-sparked tsunami will receive a huge Christmas present after a ship arrived in Tokyo on Tuesday carrying a ...
When the ice melts, the Earth spews fire
Dec 24, 2012 (SPX)
It has long been known that volcanic activity can cause short-term variations in climate. Now, researchers at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kie...
Cyclone risk in Indonesia said increasing
Dec 24, 2012 (UPI)
Indonesia has seen more frequent cyclones with global warming in the past few years and the phenomenon is predicted to increase next year, experts say. Data sho...
Chile volcano alert raised
Dec 23, 2012 (AFP)
Chile issued a top-level red alert Sunday for its Copahue volcano, in the south on the Andean border with Argentina, as it rumbled to register a greater potenti...
Travel misery as floods hit Britain
Dec 23, 2012 (AFP)
Heavy flooding across parts of Britain caused widespread road and rail disruption Sunday, wreaking havoc on Christmas travel plans while rescuers worked to evac...
Philippines typhoon death toll 'likely to hit 1,500'
Dec 22, 2012 (AFP)
The death toll from a typhoon that devastated the Philippines earlier this month will likely hit 1,500, making it the second deadliest since the country began k...
Flash floods kill 25 in Sri Lanka: disaster agency
Dec 20, 2012 (AFP)
Flash floods have killed at least 25 people in Sri Lanka and left more than a quarter of a million marooned in their homes, disaster officials said Thursday. He...
Climate model is first to study climate effects of Arctic hurricanes
Dec 20, 2012 (SPX)
Though it seems like an oxymoron, Arctic hurricanes happen, complete with a central "eye," extreme low barometric pressure and towering 30-foot waves that can s...
Storms in the Machine
Dec 19, 2012 (SPX)
The year is 1975, and a dark cloud is looming off the coast of Taiwan. With little warning, the storm comes crashing ashore with winds of over 150 miles per hou...
Russian volcano eruption ongoing
Dec 19, 2012 (UPI)
An eruption of a volcano in Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula is expected to last for at least two more weeks, an expert says. Gennady Karpov, deputy hea...
Trail of destruction after Cyclone Evan hits Fiji
Dec 18, 2012 (AFP)
Tropical Cyclone Evan left a swathe of destruction across Fiji Tuesday after battering the Pacific nation for more than 12 hours, destroying homes, flooding riv...
Ecuador volcano spews lava, ash
Dec 18, 2012 (AFP)
Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano spewed lava and towering plumes of ash Tuesday but the alert level remains the same, seismic experts said. "During the overnight an...
Great Nepalese quake of 1255 points to Himalayan risk
Dec 16, 2012 (AFP)
A mega-quake in 1255 that wrecked the Nepalese capital, wiped out a third of the population of Kathmandu Valley and killed the country's monarch, King Abhaya Ma...
Philippines typhoon death toll tops 1000
Dec 16, 2012 (AFP)
The death toll from a typhoon that devastated the southern Philippines earlier this month has topped 1,000 as hundreds more remain missing, the government said ...
Ecuador declares volcano alert
Dec 16, 2012 (AFP)
Ecuador issued an orange alert -- the second-highest warning level -- for towns near the Tungurahua volcano on Sunday, as its level of activity rose, civil defe...
Tsunami caused long-term ecosystem change in the Caribbean
Dec 14, 2012 (SPX)
A detailed analysis of sediments from the island of Bonaire in the Caribbean presents convincing evidence for an extraordinary wave impact dating back some 3,30...
Philippines typhoon death toll tops 900
Dec 13, 2012 (AFP)
The death toll from the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year has climbed above 900, with hundreds still missing, the government said Thursday. Typ...
Philippines typhoon toll tops 700, hundreds missing
Dec 11, 2012 (AFP)
The death toll from the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year has climbed above 700 with hundreds more missing, many of them tuna fishermen feared ...
Scientists pinpoint great-earthquake hot spots
Dec 11, 2012 (SPX)
"We find that 87% of the 15 largest (8.6 magnitude or higher) and half of the 50 largest (8.4 magnitude or higher) earthquakes of the past century are associate...
At least 13 dead after flood in Congo capital
Dec 10, 2012 (AFP)
At least 13 people died in the Republic of Congo and two dozen others were injured after torrential rains caused homes to collapse in southern Brazzaville over ...
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