Natural Disaster
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Volcano erupts in Iceland near capital following weeks of seismic activity
The Fagradals Mountain volcano was dormant for 6,000 years, and the Reykjanes Peninsula hadn’t seen an eruption of any volcano…
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Perth bushfire: Number of homes lost rises to 86 as fatigued firefighters wait for rain
Firefighters are hoping for weekend rain with the number of homes destroyed by a devastating bushfire in the Perth Hills…
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You can’t talk about disaster risk reduction without talking about inequality
The UN reports about 90% of all disasters are weather-related, and that weather and climate are major drivers of disaster…
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Deforestation destroyed more than two football fields of Brazil’s Amazon a minute last year
Deforestation destroyed the equivalent of more than two football pitches each minute in the Brazilian Amazon in 2020, another devastating…
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‘Wilfully destructive’: Natural disasters nearly double under climate change, UN says
Climate change is largely to blame for a near doubling of natural disasters in the past 20 years, the United…
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Rapid Arctic meltdown in Siberia alarms scientists
“It just felt like you couldn’t breathe at all,” said Deyev, 32, who lives in Irkutsk, a Siberian region along…
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The Great Lakes depend on ice.
The region comes alive during winter. Alejundra Borunda National Geographic But both culture and the economy suffer when the cold…
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Coronavirus lockdown in Croatia’s capital of Zagreb hampered by magnitude-5.3 earthquake
A 15-year-old was reported to be in critical condition and several others were injured, news outlets reported. ABC News The…
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Call for Indigenous burning program used on remote cattle station to be adopted elsewhere
The Southern Gulf Natural Resource Management Group (NRM) started the program to conserve the endangered Carpentarian grasswren, which lives in…
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Last summer’s fish carnage sparked public outrage.
As this summer draws to a close, it marks just over a year since successive fish death events at Menindee…
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Polar bears are getting thinner and having fewer cubs.
The impact of the climate crisis is becoming more and more obvious to humans and their animal neighbors. Scottie Andrew…
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No food, no fuel, no phones: bushfires showed we’re only ever one step from system collapse
More broadly, they highlighted the immense vulnerability of the systems which make our contemporary lives possible. Anthony Richardson The Conversation…
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Barack Obama praises Melbourne environmental activist’s different approach to bushfire recovery
But in a repurposed shipping container in Oakleigh, in Melbourne’s south-east, a group of women are stirring, bottling and chatting…
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I tried to warn Scott Morrison about the bushfire disaster
I just returned from another round of fighting fires Greg Mullins The Guardian It was devastating to see the outcome…
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More than 1 billion animals dead or dying from bushfires, report finds
More than one billion animals are dead or dying from the bushfires in eastern Australia, according to a report released…
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Emergency fire warning: Residents in four towns north of Melbourne told it’s too late to leave
An emergency warning was issued for the small communities about 9.30pm on Sunday, replacing an earlier watch and act alert.…
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