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New storms threaten Grand Canyon flood search, 2 bodies recovered
Aug 31, 2026 (AFP)
The floods hit the iconic US park's Bright Angel Canyon and Phantom Ranch area on Saturday afternoon, forcing dozens of people to evacuate and damaging the sole...
UN, Nepal warn of climate threat after deadly floods
Aug 29, 2026 (AFP)
The US Geological Survey said the disaster on Wednesday near the high-altitude border was caused by a glacial collapse that sent a torrent of debris downstream,...
Magnitude-6.0 earthquake strikes central Philippines: USGS
May 04, 2026 (AFP)
The quake hit at a depth of 73.3 kilometres (45 miles), about nine kilometres from the province's coastal town of San Julian. A local police officer told AFP th...
Satellite Data and Machine Learning Sharpen Volcano Eruption Forecasts for Earth and Venus
Apr 27, 2026 (SPX)
The advances draw on a combination of publicly and privately sourced satellite data together with machine learning algorithms developed at Pitt in collaboration...
Researchers Identify a Stopping Phase That Governs How Large Strike-Slip Earthquakes End
Apr 23, 2026 (SPX)
The discovery emerged from analysis of strong-motion acceleration records collected close to fault lines. While reviewing the data, the team noticed a negative ...
Kenya flash floods death toll rises to 45
Mar 09, 2026 (AFP)
Torrential rains lashed the Kenyan capital Nairobi late Friday, turning major streets into rivers and flooding thousands of homes and businesses. Police said Sa...
Flash floods in Nairobi kill 23
Mar 07, 2026 (AFP)
Torrential rains lashed the Kenyan capital late Friday, turning major streets into rivers and flooding thousands of homes and businesses. Rescue teams were stil...
Man missing in floods as France hit by record 35 days of rain
Feb 18, 2026 (AFP)
National weather service Meteo-France said the country was experiencing its longest series of rainy days since measurements began in 1959, breaking the 2023 rec...
Climate change turbocharged Spain's Valencia floods: study
Feb 17, 2026 (AFP)
More than 230 people died and thousands of homes were damaged in the Mediterranean region when a year's worth of rain fell in just a few hours on October 29, 20...
Hundreds evacuated as floods hit North Macedonia
Feb 16, 2026 (AFP)
Conditions had eased since the weekend but forecasters said more rain was on the way. "We appeal for careful movement by the rivers and ravines due to extraordi...
Madagascar cyclone death toll rises to 59
Feb 16, 2026 (AFP)
It is the latest in a string of tropical storms to batter the southern African island in recent months, underscoring its vulnerability to increasingly extreme w...
French flood alert system says working at record pace
Feb 14, 2026 (AFP)
"For 30 days we have been in continuous orange or red alert somewhere on the national territory," Lucie Chadourne-Facon, director of Vigicrues, told AFP, referr...
Cyclone Gezani kills four in Mozambique: officials
Feb 14, 2026 (AFP)
The cyclone, which killed 41 people in Madagascar according to the latest toll, did not reach the Mozambican coast, remaining 50 kilometres (30 miles) from shor...
Strong earthquake off Vanuatu coast, no damage reported
Feb 14, 2026 (AFP)
The US Geological Survey said the epicentre was about 50 kilometres (31 miles) west of the village of Port Olry, on the island of Espiritu Santo. There was no r...
Floods wreak havoc in Morocco farmlands after severe drought
Feb 13, 2026 (AFP)
Farmers in the North African kingdom have for the past few years endured severe drought. But floods have now swamped more than 100,000 hectares of land, wiping ...
Death toll in Madagascar cyclone rises to 38, 12,000 displaced
Feb 12, 2026 (AFP)
Cyclone Gezani made landfall on Tuesday at Madagascar's eastern coastal city Toamasina, bringing winds that reached 250 kilometres (155 miles) per hour. Updatin...
Morocco flood evacuees still shaken, waiting to return home
Feb 08, 2026 (AFP)
Selami is among more than 150,000 people to have been evacuated over the past week as heavy rainfall battered provinces in Morocco's north. "We felt immense fea...
Three dead after flooding hits northwest Syria: state media
Feb 08, 2026 (AFP)
The heavy rains in Syria's Idlib region and the coastal province of Latakia have also wreaked havoc in displacement camps, according to authorities, who have la...
Solar-driven ionosphere charges may nudge stressed faults toward rupture
Feb 08, 2026 (SPX)
In the model, fractured zones deep in the crust are assumed to contain high-temperature, high-pressure water that may be in a supercritical state. These fluid-f...
Tropical cyclone kills seven in Madagascar
Feb 02, 2026 (AFP)
Cyclone Fytia, packing gusts of up to 210 kilometres (130 miles) per hour, hit the Indian Ocean island early on Saturday and left early Sunday. One of the seven...
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