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Misery for millions as monsoon pounds Pakistan port city
Jul 26, 2022 (AFP)
His wife fell sick overnight, but Akbar couldn't take her to a doctor as heavy monsoon rains fell until morning, causing misery for the city of 15 million. "I c...
Pakistan's biggest city paralysed by rain; C.Africa floods kill 13
Jul 25, 2022 (AFP)
The monsoon, which usually lasts from June to September, is essential for irrigating crops and replenishing lakes and dams across the Indian subcontinent, but a...
C.Africa floods kill 13, leave over 1,000 homeless
Jul 25, 2022 (AFP)
Local Red Cross chief Antoine Mbao Bogo said he was "surprised" at a toll he described as unprecedented in a country where flooding is frequent. According to a ...
New method can improve explosion detection
Jul 25, 2022 (SPX)
The work, led by UAF Geophysical Institute postdoctoral researcher Alex Witsil, was published recently in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. Witsil, at t...
Evacuations after volcano erupts in southern Japan
Jul 24, 2022 (AFP)
Television footage showed red-hot rocks and dark plumes exploding from Sakurajima volcano in Kagoshima, which erupted just after 8:00 pm (1100 GMT). There were ...
15 dead, 23,000 affected by rainy-season floods in Niger
Jul 21, 2022 (AFP)
The worst-hit regions are Zinder in the south of the arid Sahel state, followed by Maradi and Diffa, also in the south. Niger, the world's poorest country by th...
'Fire of Love' charts romance and death of volcano-chasing scientists
Jul 17, 2022 (AFP)
Now the married couple are the subject of "Fire of Love," a new film constructed from hours of dazzling, terrifying and occasionally quirky footage they shot cl...
Flood anniversary prompts sadness and soul-searching in Germany
Jul 14, 2022 (AFP)
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will embark on a tour of the Ahr valley, while Chancellor Olaf Scholz will attend a memorial event in the hard-hit town of Bad...
Germans demand change a year on from deadly floods
Jul 14, 2022 (AFP)
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier embarked on a tour of the Ahr valley, while Chancellor Olaf Scholz joined a human chain in the hard-hit town of Bad Neuenahr-A...
Heavy rains flood villages in Russia's climate-hit Far East
Jul 12, 2022 (AFP)
Yakutia has been badly affected in recent summers by extreme weather -- including wildfires and floods -- that scientists say is linked to climate change. Such ...
Pilgrimage in Indian Kashmir resumes as many missing from floods
Jul 11, 2022 (AFP)
The Amarnath shrine sits at 3,900 metres (12,800 feet) altitude and is dedicated to Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction, with an ice formation in the cave belie...
A year on, German flood victims recall life changed in a night
Jul 11, 2022 (AFP)
For those who survived the deadly flood, life changed dramatically. Three of them spoke to AFP. - Solidarity - "My dog, my mobile phone and some T-shirts." That...
16 dead in flash floods at Indian Kashmir pilgrimage site
Jul 09, 2022 (AFP)
Around 10,000 people were camped near the remote Amarnath temple, nestled in a Himalayan mountain cave, when a sudden cloudburst triggered a deluge. Frequent wh...
Canadian woman dies in avalanche on Ecuador volcano: officials
Jul 08, 2022 (AFP)
Security Service ECU911 in Riobamba city said in a statement that a man who identified himself as a 24-year-old Canadian phoned to report the accident in which ...
Volcano's eruption will help scientists plot weather, climate
Jul 07, 2022 (SPX)
The volcano, located in the South Pacific nation of Tonga, became active Dec. 20, 2021, and erupted Jan. 15, 2022. The blast obliterated one of the country's ma...
Fiber optic sensing detects tremor from Icelandic subglacial volcano
Jul 07, 2022 (SPX)
Their research published in The Seismic Record indicates that the floating ice cap, part of the Vatnajokull glacier, acted as a natural amplifier of the tremor ...
I.Coast June floods killed 19: official
Jul 07, 2022 (AFP)
A statement issued after a national security council meeting announced "a tragic toll" of 19 dead, five injured and widespread property damage in several distri...
Thousands more flee as Sydney floods track north
Jul 06, 2022 (AFP)
New South Wales authorities issued fresh flood alerts north of Australia's largest city and warned that rising, rain-swollen rivers still posed a danger in part...
Monsoon rains kill 77 in Pakistan
Jul 06, 2022 (AFP)
"For me, it's a national tragedy," Sherry Rehman told a news conference in the capital, adding the toll was taken from June 14, when the monsoon started. "When ...
Bonnie becomes first major hurricane of Pacific season
Jul 05, 2022 (AFP)
Bonnie was expected to move parallel to Mexico's southern coast before heading farther away from land, according to the US National Hurricane Center (NHC). The ...
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