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Helene on track to hit Florida as major hurricane; Two killed in Mexico as storm John weakens
Sep 24, 2024 (AFP)
Helene, currently churning over the Caribbean with maximum sustained winds of 50 miles (85 kilometers) per hour, is projected to rapidly strengthen through the ...
Small tsunamis hit Japan's Izu Islands after quake
Sep 24, 2024 (AFP)
Waves of 50 centimetres (20 inches) hit Hachijojima at around 9 am (0000 GMT), after the Japan Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami alert for the region south...
Major Hurricane John hits Mexico's Pacific coast
Sep 24, 2024 (AFP)
John came ashore near Marquelia in Guerrero state, packing maximum sustained winds of around 120 miles (195 kilometers) per hour, the US-based National Hurrican...
Myanmar floods kill 419; as 1000s evacuated in Vietnam and Italy searches for missing baby and grandmother
Sep 24, 2024 (AFP)
Yagi swept across northern Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar this month, triggering floods and landslides that have killed hundreds of people across the regio...
Rescuers comb muddy riverbanks after Japan floods kill seven
Sep 23, 2024 (AFP)
The river on the Noto Peninsula -- an area still reeling from a devastating earthquake in January -- overflowed at the weekend, becoming a muddy torrent that in...
10 died in Morocco floods that swept away bus: new toll
Sep 23, 2024 (AFP)
Initially, the authorities said heavy rainstorms in Tata province late Friday had claimed two lives and left 14 people missing. But since then the bodies of eig...
Floods, landslides hit central Japan; as Myanmar flood toll jumps to 384
Sep 22, 2024 (AFP)
Muddy rivers ran high in Anamizu, a city on the Noto Peninsula, where damage from the January quake that killed at least 318 people is still visible, AFP report...
Floods kill 503 impact millions in Chad as deadly floods strike Morocco and Niger
Sep 21, 2024 (AFP)
The floods have also destroyed 212,111 houses, flooded 357,832 hectares (885,000 acres) of fields and drowned 69,659 heads of cattle, said the UN's Office for t...
Hungary Danube waters reach decade high after Storm Boris
Sep 21, 2024 (AFP)
Torrential rains and strong winds have led to widespread flooding in central and eastern Europe since last week, killing 24 people and devastating towns and vil...
Shanghai hit by second typhoon in a week
Sep 20, 2024 (AFP)
Typhoon Pulasan comes days after the strongest storm to hit the megacity since 1949, Bebinca, caused extensive damage on Monday. Pulasan made landfall on Thursd...
Myanmar flood death toll climbs to 293: state media
Sep 19, 2024 (AFP)
Yagi swept across northern Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar more than a week ago, triggering floods and landslides that have killed 613 people across the reg...
Bridging the heavens and Earth
Sep 19, 2024 (SPX)
"It's definitely like a more down-to-earth kind of seismology," he jokingly describes it. It's an odd comment. Where else could earthquakes be but on Earth? But...
EU chief announces $11 bn for nations hit by 'heartbreaking' floods
Sep 19, 2024 (AFP)
The death toll from the storm that struck central and eastern Europe last week rose to 24 as of Wednesday and some areas are still under threat from rising wate...
Local, foreign firms facing months of recovery in storm-hit Vietnam
Sep 18, 2024 (AFP)
The strongest typhoon to hit the country in decades slammed into the important industrial port city of Haiphong before unleashing a torrent of rain across the n...
Myanmar flooding death toll jumps to 226
Sep 17, 2024 (AFP)
Yagi swept across northern Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar more than a week ago with powerful winds and an enormous amount of rain, triggering floods and la...
Rising Flood Risks in Deserts Expose Critical Infrastructure Vulnerabilities
Sep 17, 2024 (SPX)
In the past decade, the Sahara has faced increasingly harsh droughts interrupted by powerful coastal storms, driven by rising temperatures in the Eastern Medite...
Strongest typhoon to hit Shanghai since 1949 shuts down megacity
Sep 16, 2024 (AFP)
Typhoon Bebinca -- the fiercest storm to hit the megacity since Gloria 75 years ago -- landed early Monday morning in the eastern coastal area, with wind speeds...
Vietnam puts typhoon losses at $1.6BN; Tropical Storm Bebinca kills six in Philippines
Sep 16, 2024 (AFP)
Yagi battered Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand with powerful winds and a huge dump of rain over a week ago, triggering floods and landslides that have killed...
China prepares for heavy rain as typhoon nears Shanghai
Sep 15, 2024 (AFP)
Typhoon Bebinca was expected to make landfall along a swath of coastline including the megacity of Shanghai sometime between Sunday night and Monday morning, ac...
Storm, flooding death toll in Myanmar jumps to 74
Sep 15, 2024 (AFP)
Floods and landslides have killed almost 350 people in Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand in the wake of Typhoon Yagi, which hit the region last weekend, accor...
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