WASHINGTON, DC, January 14, 2010 (ENS) – Nations and aid organizations from around the world are rushing relief to Haiti, where the capital Port-au-Prince was devastated by a magnitude […]
RESTON, Virginia, January 13, 2010 (ENS) – At least 1,783 deaths resulted from earthquake activity in 2009, according to a new global report issued today by the U.S. Geological […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, January 13, 2010 (ENS) – Hundreds of thousands of people are believed to have died in the most violent earthquake to strike Haiti in 200 years, while […]
MANILA, Philippines, December 24, 2009 (ENS) – Mount Mayon, the Philippines’ most active volcano, is shooting columns of ash more than a kilometer above the summit and red hot lava […]
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, November 18, 2009 (ENS) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ failure to maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in New Orleans following Hurricane […]
PERTH, Australia, November 3, 2009 (ENS) – PTTEP Australasia today confirmed it has killed a leaking oil well and stopped the main fire at the Montara well head platform […]
PERTH, Australia, November 2, 2009 (ENS) – A huge fire has been blazing at an oil rig in the Timor Sea since Sunday, after an attempt by the oil […]
ALAMEDA, California, October 31, 2009 (ENS) – Cleanup operations continue today in response to an oil spill from a tanker into San Francisco Bay Friday morning. Bunker fuel was being […]
MANILA, Philippines, October 27, 2009 (ENS) – The World Health Organization has sent an international team of health experts to the Philippines to help the government respond to a […]
VIENNA, Austria, October 21, 2009 (ENS) – A draft agreement on providing Iran with fuel for a civilian nuclear research facility that could defuse tension over Iran’s nuclear program […]
GREENBELT, Maryland, October 19, 2009 (ENS) – Powerful tropical cyclones have developed on both sides of the Pacific Ocean, according to NASA satellite data, and the governments of Mexico […]
MANILA, Philippines, October 9, 2009 (ENS) – A week of torrential rain on the Philippines main island of Luzon brought by ‘super typhoon’ Parma has claimed more than 100 […]
MANILA, Philippines, October 2, 2009 (ENS) – President Gloria Arroyo today declared a nationwide calamity and ordered local governments, police and military to forcibly evacuate residents in the projected […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia, October 1, 2009 (ENS) – At least 1,000 people have died and hundreds more have been injured in a severe earthquake that struck the Indonesian island of […]
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