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Flood-hit Kenya reports dozens of cholera cases
May 08, 2024 (AFP)
The World Health Organization (WHO) said 44 cases of the disease have been reported in Tana River County in eastern Kenya, one of the areas hardest hit in weeks...
DR Congo faces 'catastrophe' from floods: UN
May 08, 2024 (AFP)
"Heavier rainfall than usual during the rainy season, prompted by climate change, has forced rivers and lakes to overflow, swallowing towns, villages and roads ...
Floods misery reminder of climate's role in supercharging rain
May 08, 2024 (AFP)
Though not all directly attributed to global warming, they are occurring in a year of record-breaking temperatures and underscore what scientists have long warn...
Brazil flooding death toll surpasses 100
May 08, 2024 (AFP)
Some 400 municipalities have been affected by the worst natural calamity ever to hit the state of Rio Grande do Sul, with hundreds of people injured and more th...
International SWOT Mission Can Improve Flood Prediction
May 08, 2024 (JPL)
Scientists and water managers use many types of data to predict flooding. This year they have a new tool at their disposal: freshwater data from the Surface Wat...
Volcano in eastern Indonesia erupts, alert level raised
May 08, 2024 (AFP)
Mount Ibu, located on the island of Halmahera in North Maluku province, erupted at 11:11 am local time (0211 GMT) and sent a thick column of dark smoke and ash ...
Brazilians queue for precious water as flood damage intensifies
May 07, 2024 (AFP)
The worst natural calamity ever to hit the state of Rio Grande do Sul has claimed at least 95 lives, with 372 people reported injured and 131 still missing, acc...
Floor by floor search for flood victims in Brazil's Porto Alegre
May 06, 2024 (AFP)
In the state capital's Sarandi neighborhood, firefighters first evacuated people who had found refuge on the roofs of apartment buildings, then went in for thos...
Floor by floor search for flood victims in Brazil's Porto Alegre
May 06, 2024 (AFP)
Since the unprecedented deluge started last week, at least 85 people have died and more than 150,000 were ejected from their homes by floods and mudslides in Ri...
Lake Tsunamis Identified as Growing Climate Hazard
May 06, 2024 (SPX)
"Portage Lake is pretty much at the top of my list," Higman said regarding areas at high risk for these phenomena. Higman, speaking at the Seismological Society...
Kenya floods death toll at 228 as crisis persists
May 05, 2024 (AFP)
While Kenya and neighbouring Tanzania escaped major damage from a tropical cyclone that weakened after making landfall on Saturday, the government in Nairobi sa...
Rescuers brave Indonesia volcano eruptions to save pets
May 05, 2024 (AFP)
Mount Ruang in Indonesia's northernmost region has erupted more than half a dozen times since April 16, stirring a spectacular mix of ash, lava and lightning th...
Floods in southern Brazil kill 57, force 70,000 from homes
May 05, 2024 (AFP)
At least 74 people were injured and another 67 missing from the catastrophic flooding, civil defense said. The toll did not include two people who died in an ex...
Pakistan records 'wettest April' in more than 60 years
May 04, 2024 (AFP)
April rainfall was recorded at 59.3 millimetres, "excessively above" the normal average of 22.5 millimetres, Pakistan's metrology department said late Friday in...
First ever cyclone confronts flood-hit Kenya
May 04, 2024 (AFP)
Both countries have gone on alert for Tropical Cyclone Hidaya, after weeks of torrential rains and floods that have wreaked havoc in many parts of East Africa a...
Mount Rainier lahar detection system receives major upgrade
May 03, 2024 (SPX)
During the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Seismological Society of America (SSA), Seth Moran, a volcano seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, presented rece...
Seismic hazard maps may overestimate earthquake intensity
May 03, 2024 (SPX)
Seismic hazard maps, which have been used for nearly five decades, are designed to predict the intensity of future earthquakes to help engineer safer buildings....
Schools, offices shut as heavy rain returns to desert UAE
May 02, 2024 (AFP)
A lightning storm with high winds swept across the oil-rich monarchy overnight, with more than 50 millimetres (two inches) of rain falling before 8:00 am in som...
Kenya, Tanzania brace for cyclone as heavy rains persist
May 02, 2024 (AFP)
In addition to claiming 188 lives in Kenya since March, the floods have displaced 165,000 people, with 90 reported missing, the interior ministry said, as the g...
At least 29 killed in Burundi floods: UN
May 02, 2024 (AFP)
Burundi, which the UN says is one of the 20 countries most vulnerable to climate change, has been pelted by almost nonstop rains for months, exacerbated by the ...
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