カテゴリー: Natural disasters and extreme weather
At the town, the base for tours to the volcano, bereaved families wait for their loved ones’ bodies to be recoveredOn the shores of Whakatāne a small phalanx of mourners is standing guard, their gaze turned out to the Pacific Ocean. The water is an une…
‘The burns were horrific … A lot of the people could not talk,’ says Mark LawWhite Island volcano: police open inquiry as sixth person diesA commercial helicopter pilot who led a team that rescued 12 victims from the White Island volcano eruption has t…
Jacinda Ardern confirms that New Zealanders and tourists from Australia, the US, Britain, China and Malaysia are among missing on White Island/Whakaari. Follow rolling updates Five people dead and eight missing after New Zealand volcanic eruptionHow to…
New Zealand police say no one still alive on island, and more injured people may dieNew Zealand police have launched an investigation into the eruption of the White Island volcano, as further details emerged of the scale of the disaster in which at lea…
One minute they were taking photos, the next tending the burns of fellow tourists in New ZealandFollow the latest updates on the eruption – liveIt was a beautiful, clear day in Whakatāne, a town on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island, the air …
Police update follows reconnaissance flights over island, as death toll expected to rise from five New Zealand volcano: five dead after White Island eruptionHow tourists became first-aiders on seas off White Island volcano 1.02pm GMT We are going to pa…
No survivors left on island, say police after disaster leaves up to two dozen people missingPolice in New Zealand have said they do not expect to find any more survivors from a volcanic eruption on White Island that killed at least five people and inju…
North Island faces tornado risk after landslides and flooding wreak havoc in the southWe are expanding our coverage of New Zealand. Please help us by supporting our independent journalismNew Zealand has been hit by a weekend of severe storms, with land…
Heavy rain has led to rivers bursting their banks, forcing the closure of shops and restaurantsStreets in the South Island tourist towns of Wanaka and Queenstown were slowly going under water on Friday, after Lake Wanaka and Lake Wakatipu burst their b…
More than 200,000 people have been evacuated from their homes, say officials, after Typhoon Kammuri slammed into the central Philippines.The typhoon, the country’s 20th this year, brought winds of up to 124mph (200km/h) and caused flooding and landslid…
Bambang Hero Saharjo has received death threats for testifying against companiesA scientist who takes on the companies responsible for massive wildfires across Indonesia has won the prestigious John Maddox prize for standing up for science in the face …
Twelve reported dead in India and eight in Bangladesh as storm uproots trees and floods croplandsTwenty people have died and more than two million others have spent a night huddled in storm shelters after Cyclone Bulbul hit the coasts of India and Ban…
Underwater volcano sees old island disappear below the waves, replaced by a bigger one nearbyAn undersea volcanic eruption in the Tongan archipelago has sunk one island and created another one that is three times larger, according to a report by geolog…
Shinzo Abe says pair should have had access to shelter in Tokyo during Typhoon HagibisThe Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has promised to take action after two homeless men were refused access to a shelter as Typhoon Hagibis barrelled into Tokyo.T…
Residents and survivors were picked up in central and eastern Japan after Typhoon Hagibis hit the country on Saturday 12 October. The super-typhoon has already claimed 40 lives.Record rainfall caused at least 25 rivers across the country to burst …