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Residents afraid to return home as aftershocks rock Philippines
Oct 26, 2022 (AFP)
The 6.4-magnitude quake struck the mountain town of Dolores in Abra province late Tuesday, cutting power to most of the region. Numerous aftershocks rattled Abr...
24 dead, million seek shelter as Cyclone Sitrang hits Bangladesh
Oct 25, 2022 (AFP)
Cyclones -- the equivalent of hurricanes in the Atlantic or typhoons in the Pacific -- are a regular menace in the region but scientists say climate change is l...
16 dead, million seek shelter as cyclone hits Bangladesh
Oct 25, 2022 (AFP)
Around 10 million people were without power in 15 coastal districts, while schools were shut across southern and southwestern regions. Cyclones -- the equivalen...
Aid slowly reaches Nigerian flood victims
Oct 24, 2022 (AFP)
Waiting by the waterside, past the many half-submerged trucks, Bolaji Phillips looks on next to his vehicle, which is filled with cassava flour, rice and noodle...
Roslyn weakens to tropical storm after Mexico landfall
Oct 23, 2022 (AFP)
No deaths have been tallied so far but there were widespread reports of damage amid fears that still-rising rivers could lead to more flooding. The storm was so...
Displaced by flooding, Nigerians in desperate need of help
Oct 22, 2022 (AFP)
For the past two weeks, they have been living in dire conditions near Ahoada, in Rivers state, in a school now crowded with more than a thousand people displace...
Hurricane Roslyn major storm as it approaches Mexico's coast
Oct 22, 2022 (AFP)
The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said "Roslyn continues to rapidly intensify" in its latest advisory issued at 0900 GMT, with the storm around 270 kilomet...
Magma symphony could help predict volcanic eruptions
Oct 20, 2022 (AFP)
A team studying "infrasounds" -- sounds too deep for humans to hear -- from volcanoes like Italy's Mount Etna has discovered that magmatic gurgles change marked...
Flood-hit Chad declares state of emergency
Oct 19, 2022 (AFP)
The floods, caused by heavy rains in the south and central areas, have hit 18 of the country's 23 provinces and affected "more than a million people", Deby said...
Chad floods leave victims in despair
Oct 19, 2022 (AFP)
In the beleaguered capital of N'Djamena, a field of tents has sprung up to provide emergency shelter and victims are striving to salvage what they can from the ...
Tonga volcano eruption stimulates life: rapid, massive bloom of ocean phytoplankton
Oct 17, 2022 (SPX)
The UH Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST)-led team, analyzed satellite images of various kinds-true color, emission of red and infra...
Nigeria floods toll has passed 600: government
Oct 16, 2022 (AFP)
The disaster had also forced more than 1.3 million from their homes, said a statement by Nigeria's ministry of humanitarian affairs, released on Twitter. "Unfor...
Pakistan vows IMF reforms as flood damage estimated at over $16 bn
Oct 15, 2022 (AFP)
Finance Minister Ishaq Dar also said that a flood donors' conference promised by French President Emmanuel Macron would take place next month which he hoped wou...
One dead as Australia floods start to recede
Oct 15, 2022 (AFP)
Hundreds of homeowners began a long clean-up after storm waters engulfed streets, houses and cars across three states, with Melbourne suburbs among the worst hi...
Floods swallow cars, swamp houses in 'major' Australian emergency
Oct 14, 2022 (AFP)
A major flooding emergency was declared in Victoria -- Australia's second-most populous state -- where rapidly rising waters forced evacuations in the Melbourne...
Floods, landslides kill 48 in Nepal
Oct 13, 2022 (AFP)
"There was heavy rainfall during the end of the monsoon which caused landslides and flooding in western parts of the country," disaster management official Prad...
Severe storms swell Iguazu falls to 10 times normal flow
Oct 13, 2022 (AFP)
The flow through the massive waterfall system reached 14.5 million liters (3.8 million gallons) per second Wednesday night, far above the usual 1.5 million per ...
Italy court blames quake victims for own deaths: reports
Oct 12, 2022 (AFP)
The 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck on April 6 at 3:32 am, after months of tremors across the rugged Abruzzo region in central Italy. Houses collapsed throughou...
Research mission to probe Santorini volcano that blew up the world
Oct 12, 2022 (AFP)
"It's the first time that an oceanographic mission of this scope is carried out in Greece," Olga Koukousioura, a micropalaeontology researcher at Aristotle Univ...
Nigeria floods kill 500, displace 1.4 million people
Oct 12, 2022 (AFP)
Floods caused by abundant rains and poor infrastructure have affected vast swathes of Africa's most populous country sparking fears they could worsen food insec...
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