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Hurricane Beryl kills seven as it churns towards Jamaica
Jul 03, 2024 (AFP)
The powerful hurricane, which is rare so early in the Atlantic season, weakened Tuesday but was still an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm, and is expected...
Six dead as floods inundate vast swath of India, Bangladesh and China
Jul 03, 2024 (AFP)
Monsoon rains cause widespread destruction every year, but experts say climate change is shifting weather patterns and increasing the number of extreme weather ...
Hurricane Beryl hammers Jamaica on path to Caymans, Mexico
Jul 03, 2024 (AFP)
The eye of the Category 4 hurricane has not yet breached the shore of Jamaica but could in the coming hours, and is expected to approach or even make landfall i...
Hurricane Beryl pummels Caribbean, strengthens to Category 5
Jul 02, 2024 (AFP)
Beryl is now the earliest category 5 storm in the Atlantic on record and has developed into a "potentially catastrophic" hurricane, the US National Hurricane Ce...
Thousands trapped in northern Myanmar flooding
Jul 02, 2024 (AFP)
After days of heavy rain in Myitkyina, a city in northern Kachin state, the Ayeyarwady river had risen above its "danger level", according to state media. Image...
2023 cyclone Freddy longest on record at 36 days: UN
Jul 01, 2024 (AFP)
A panel of experts has been poring over the data surrounding the storm since its remarkable journey in February and March last year. The United Nations' weather...
Hurricane Beryl, first of 2024 season, bears down on Caribbean
Jun 30, 2024 (AFP)
The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Beryl -- currently churning in the Atlantic Ocean about 530 miles (850 kilometers) east of Barbados -- was expected ...
Caribbean braces as Beryl strengthens to 'extremely dangerous' Category 4 hurricane
Jun 30, 2024 (AFP)
The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned residents that Beryl -- currently churning in the Atlantic Ocean about 350 miles (565 kilometers) east of Barbados...
Indonesia's Lewotobi Laki-Laki and Mount Ibu volcanoes both erupts twice in a day
Jun 29, 2024 (AFP)
The first eruption took place at 11:04 am local time (0304 GMT) and lasted nearly 11 minutes, according to a statement from the Indonesian volcanology agency. T...
Indonesia's Mount Ibu erupts twice, belches tower of ash
Jun 28, 2024 (AFP)
The country's Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation shared an image of the thick column of grey ash towering among white clouds around Mount I...
7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes off Peru, tsunami threat over: USGS
Jun 28, 2024 (AFP)
The USGS said the tremor hit 8.8 kilometers (5.5 miles) from Atiquipa district. The quake was felt in Lima and a large part of the southern and central coast of...
7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes off Peru, eight injured
Jun 28, 2024 (AFP)
The United States Geological Survey said the tremor hit 8.8 kilometers (5.5 miles) from the southern region of Atiquipa. The quake was felt in Lima and a large ...
Scores killed across China as floods continue
Jun 25, 2024 (AFP)
Record rainfall struck hilly Hunan province on Saturday, leading to "severe waterlogging" and sudden deluges, according to state news agency Xinhua. Citing "rel...
Volcanic eruption in Iceland ends after 24 days met office
Jun 24, 2024 (AFP)
The Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) said in a statement that since June 22 "no activity has been seen in the crater", where in late May orange lava founta...
Heavy rains expected to pummel central, eastern China
Jun 24, 2024 (AFP)
Continuous heavy rain is forecast until Thursday in several provinces across central, eastern and southern regions of the country, the National Meteorological C...
Floods, landslides kill 24 in Ivory Coast's main city
Jun 24, 2024 (AFP)
Rain around four times heavier than normal fell on the West African nation's economic capital over several days in that period, causing spectacular rises in wat...
Body found after Swiss floods, two still missing
Jun 23, 2024 (AFP)
Rainstorms Friday set off flooding and landslides that tore down houses in the mountainous Val Mesolcina valley district of the canton. The body of a man was fo...
Three missing after heavy Swiss flooding
Jun 22, 2024 (AFP)
Police said a woman feared to have been swept away had been found alive after being caught in torrential rain and thunderstorms that caused landslides and flood...
Death toll in south China flooding jumps to 38: state media
Jun 21, 2024 (AFP)
China has endured a spate of extreme weather so far this summer, with deluges in the south coming as a heatwave has swept across the north. Downpours in densely...
Torrential rains kill 27 across Central America
Jun 21, 2024 (AFP)
El Salvador's Environment Minister Fernando Lopez said the deluge was a result of low pressure over the Pacific Ocean, with indirect influence from tropical sto...
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