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Typhoon forces Japan atomic bomb commemorations inside
Aug 07, 2023 (AFP)
The typhoon last week reportedly killed at least two people, injured more than 100 and cut off power for several hundred thousand people in the southern Okinawa...
Sudan rains wreck hundreds of homes: state media
Aug 07, 2023 (AFP)
Changing weather patterns saw Sudan's Northern State buffeted with heavy rain, causing damage to at least 464 houses, state-run SUNA news agency said. It descri...
23 injured, buildings collapse as 5.4 quake hits east China
Aug 06, 2023 (AFP)
The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake struck at 2:33 am (1833 GMT Saturday), 26 kilometres (16 miles) south of the city of Dezhou in Shandong province,...
21 injured, buildings collapse as 5.4 quake hits east China
Aug 06, 2023 (AFP)
The quake, which struck at 2:33 am (1833 GMT Saturday), hit 26 kilometres (16 miles) south of the city of Dezhou in Shandong province, at a depth of 10 kilometr...
Scores dead across northern China in wide scale flooding
Aug 06, 2023 (AFP)
China has been hit with record heavy rains in recent weeks, with Beijing saying Friday that natural disasters had caused 147 deaths or disappearances last month...
14 dead in north China rains
Aug 06, 2023 (AFP)
China has been hit with record heavy rains in recent weeks, with Beijing saying Friday that natural disasters had caused 147 deaths or disappearances last month...
Record floods 'worst natural disaster' in Slovenia in over 30 years: PM
Aug 05, 2023 (AFP)
As heavy rainfall started to ease, with the weather situation gradually normalising, the extent of the damage caused by the devastating floods was being assesse...
Magnitude 5.4 earthquake hits eastern China
Aug 05, 2023 (AFP)
Area residents posted videos on social media showing shaking light fixtures, trembling ground and people evacuating their buildings, including one clip of peopl...
Death toll rises to 30 in northern China floods
Aug 05, 2023 (AFP)
Officials reported the deaths in Baoding, about 150 kilometres (90 miles) from Beijing, adding that 18 people were missing. Storm Doksuri, a former super typhoo...
Clearcut logging leads to more frequent flooding, including extreme floods
Aug 04, 2023 (SPX)
While it's widely thought that loss of forest cover is strongly linked to increased flooding, most studies have suggested that the impact is limited to smaller ...
Hawaii's undersea volcano Kama'ehu erupted five times in past 150 years
Aug 04, 2023 (SPX)
Hawaiian volcanoes are thought to transition through a series of growth stages. Kama'ehu is currently in the earliest submarine "pre-shield" stage of growth, wh...
No power, no clean water: cleanup begins in Beijing's flood-hit suburbs
Aug 03, 2023 (AFP)
Cleanup has begun after the region's worst rainfall in years battered northern China, killing at least twenty people, destroying infrastructure and deluging swa...
Iceland's met office says volcanic eruption slowing
Aug 02, 2023 (AFP)
Data gathered at the Litli Hrutur peak -- an uninhabited area around 30 kilometres (19 miles) from Reykjavik -- showed that the lava flow was around five cubic ...
Typhoon knocks out power in southern Japan
Aug 02, 2023 (AFP)
Hundreds of flights to Okinawa and other islands in the area were cancelled, stranding thousands of tourists holidaying in the region's tropical beach resorts. ...
Floods for miles: swathes of China underwater after historic rain
Aug 02, 2023 (AFP)
Torrents of brown water swept tons of rubbish through a park in suburban Beijing, while normally bustling main streets in Hebei province to the southwest of the...
Streets become rivers as Beijing records heaviest rain in 140 years
Aug 02, 2023 (AFP)
Millions of people have been hit by extreme weather events and prolonged heatwaves around the globe in recent weeks, events that scientists say are being exacer...
Thousands urged to evacuate in southern Japan ahead of typhoon
Aug 01, 2023 (AFP)
Typhoon Khanun was packing maximum sustained wind speeds of 162 kilometres (100 miles) an hour as it crossed the Pacific Ocean and was expected to start batteri...
Magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Eritrea
Aug 01, 2023 (AFP)
The moderate earthquake which hit at a depth of 10 kilometres struck at 8:15 pm local time (1715 GMT), Information Minister Yemane Meskel said. "Ministry of Min...
China issues red alert for torrential rain in Beijing
Jul 29, 2023 (AFP)
Doksuri smashed into southern Fujian province on Friday morning with gusts of up to 175 kilometres per hour (110 miles per hour), and China's meteorological ser...
Beijing on alert as Typhoon Doksuri sweeps northwards
Jul 29, 2023 (AFP)
Doksuri, which smashed into Fujian province on Friday morning with gusts of up to 175 kilometres per hour (110 miles per hour), is already being felt further no...
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