Natural Disasters
Wednesday, 16 May 2012 08:53

Raging wildfires scorch Arizona

Raging wildfires in the US state of Arizona have destroyed thousands of acres of woodland, consuming half a dozen buildings and threatening a small town.
At least 40 people have lost their lives and 18 others remain missing after hail and torrential rains battered a mountainous county in China’s northwestern province of Gansu.
Saturday, 12 May 2012 08:49

Flash floods kill tens in NE Afghanistan

Tens of people have been killed and more have gone missing following a flood that swept across a city in Afghanistan’s northeastern province of Takhar.
At least 14 people have been killed and dozens of others are missing after flash floods swept away a village near a Himalayan resort in Nepal.
Saturday, 28 April 2012 09:00

FAO seeks $110mn to handle Sahel famine

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has appealed to oil-exporting and mineral-rich countries to establish a fund to deal with a food crisis that has hit the Sahel…
An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale has rocked eastern Indonesia, 74 miles southeast of the city of Manokwari in West Papua province, but there were no immediate reports…
Tuesday, 17 April 2012 08:41

UK faces worst water shortage since 1976

As the country is facing its worst national water shortage since 1976, the Environment Agency has warned that half of Britain is officially in drought.
A series of powerful thunderstorms raking communities across the Midwest and Plains have left five people dead and 29 others injured in one Oklahoma City, damaging scores of houses and…
Tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma, Nebraska and Kansas on Saturday and residents of the U.S. Plains states braced for a predicted major outbreak of dangerous nighttime twisters.
Pakistani troops began excavating a new site in their search for 138 people buried by an avalanche at a high-altitude army camp despite a fresh slide in the area, the…
Tuesday, 10 April 2012 11:04

UN warns African food crisis in Sahel

The United Nations has warned that at least one million children under the age of five across Africa’s Sahel region are at risk of dying from severe famine and malnutrition…
At least 30 Pakistani soldiers have been killed and more than 100 others buried after an avalanche hit their camp in a remote area in northern Pakistan on the border…
Wednesday, 04 April 2012 08:33

Strong winds, rainfall kill two in Japan

In Japan, a powerful rainstorm has claimed the lives of at least two people, leaving tens of thousands of others injured and stranded.
A state of emergency has been declared in the flood-ravaged Fiji as heavy torrential rain and high winds continue to pound the South Pacific nation.
The US Geological Survey has registered an earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale in central Chile.
At least fifty people have been confirmed dead after an avalanche struck a remote village in Afghanistan’s northeastern province of Badakhshan.
At least fifty people have been confirmed dead after an avalanche struck a remote village in Afghanistan’s northeastern province of Badakhshan.
Sunday, 18 March 2012 03:22

Quake hits south Philippines, 45 injured

An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale has hit the southern Philippines, injuring 45 people and causing panic among shoppers at mall, who rushed for the exits in a…
Japan has marked the first anniversary of a devastating earthquake and an ensuing tsunami that set off a nuclear crisis in the country.
Sunday, 11 March 2012 08:35

5.1-magnitude quake jolts west Indonesia

An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale has struck off the coast of western Indonesia but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
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