LIMA, Peru, January 20, 2022 (ENS) – Peru’s President Pedro Castillo today signed a decree declaring a climate emergency due to an oil spill triggered by last week’s volcanic eruption at the Pacific island nation of Tonga, and the resulting tsunami. […]
HONOLULU, Hawaii, January 15, 2022 (ENS) – A tsunami advisory was issued across the Pacific for the coasts of Australia, Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington after an undersea volcano erupted Friday night in the Tonga Islands, sending huge tsunami waves breaking onshore and people scrambling to higher ground. […]
MANILA, Philippines, January 6, 2022 (ENS) – A health crisis is gathering strength in the eastern Philippines after Super Typhoon Rai, locally called Odette, destroyed hospitals and affected more than 7.3 million people across the island chain. […]
MANILA, Philippines, December 25, 2021 (ENS) – More than 100 towns in areas devastated a week ago by Typhoon Odette, internationally known as Typhoon Rai, have no electricity this Christmas. Communities hit hardest by the typhoon endured 195 kilometer-an-hour (121 miles per hour) sustained winds, with gusts of up to 270 kph (168 mph) in central island provinces. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, December 11, 2021 (ENS) – President Joe Biden has approved an emergency declaration requested by Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear today after more than 30 tornadoes swept across Midwestern and Southern states overnight, claiming the lives of at least 70 people in Kentucky alone. […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia, December 6, 2021 (ENS) – Mt. Semeru, the tallest mountain on the Indonesian island of Java, erupted Saturday, killing at least 22 people, and again today, sending pillars of hot ash skyward to rain down on nearby villages, burying them to the rooftops. […]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada, November 19, 2021 (ENS) – Vancouver, Canada’s third-largest city, as well as smaller cities across southern British Columbia are blocked off from the rest of the world, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is sending in the military to help. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, November 11, 2021 (ENS) – The interval between tropical storms making landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast has been getting shorter over the past 40 years. By the end of the century, Louisiana and Florida will be twice as likely as they are now to experience two tropical storms that make landfall within nine days of each other… […]
GLASGOW, Scotland, November 7, 2021 (ENS) – Thousands marched peacefully in the streets of Glasgow Saturday demanding more funding and action as week one of the UN climate summit here winds down. Civil society representatives young and old called on governments to get serious on the substance of COP26 negotiations … […]
KABUL, Afghanistan, October 3, 2021 (ENS) – Some 18 million Afghans are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, health services across the country are at risk of collapse and widespread hunger stalks the arid land, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, IFRC, is warning… […]
LA PALMA, Spain, September 25, 2021 (ENS) – A volcanic eruption on the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma visible from space has destroyed hundreds of homes and forced thousands of people to evacuate. The last major eruption in the Cumbre Vieja volcano chain was 50 years ago in 1971. […]
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, September 3, 2021 (ENS) – At least 66 people across nine U.S. states have died due to Ida in her various phases from Category 4 hurricane when it struck Louisiana on August 29 to tropical depression blowing out into the Atlantic Ocean east of New England on September 2 . […]
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, August 30, 2021 (ENS) – Precisely 16 years after devastating Hurricane Katrina made landfall, another major hurricane hit southern Louisiana around noon on Sunday. Hurricane Ida came ashore at Port Fourchon with sustained winds of 150 miles (240 km) per hour. […]
GENEVA, Switzerland, August 23, 2021 (ENS) – More than 12 million people in Syria and Iraq are losing access to water, food and electricity and urgent action is needed to combat a severe water crisis, 13 aid groups working in the region warned today. […]
MIAMI, Florida, August 20, 2021 (ENS) – Hurricane Hunter Aircraft from NOAA and the U.S. Air Force Reserve flying into the midst of what is now Tropical Storm Henri off the coast of North Carolina report maximum sustained winds near 70 mph (110 km/h) with higher gusts. […]
ATHENS, Greece, August 7, 2021 (ENS) – An extensive fire on the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece has threatened the site of Ancient Olympia, where the first Olympic Games were held. Today, this is where the Olympic flame is passed to the first torchbearer of the upcoming Olympic Games, such as those currently coming to a close in Tokyo, Japan […]
ADEN, Yemen, July 27, 2021 (ENS) – A long-abandoned oil tanker has sunk off the south coast of Yemen near the Port of Aden in the Gulf of Aden leaving an oil slick for 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) along the shore, says Mohammed Amzarba, CEO of the Aden Ports Administration. […]
BERLIN, Germany, July 17, 2021 (ENS) – While Germany’s death toll from pounding rain and severe flooding stood at 67 on July 15, an official update on Saturday, July 17, shows the death toll up to at least 170 people… […]
WASHINGTON, DC, June 30, 2021 (ENS) – Hundreds of Northern California residents living between historic Mt. Shasta and the city of Weed have been evacuated from their homes as two fires burning in Siskiyou County exploded overnight, […]
GLAND, Switzerland, June 24, 2021 (ENS) – The International Union for the Conservation of Nature, IUCN, the official advisor on nature to UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee, has recommended that the world’s largest reef, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef be placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger. […]
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