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Natural disasters

July 2024

  • Screenshot of emissions map of the world, showing per capita fossil fuel emissions by country

    The Crunch
    What’s happening with the climate crisis and heat-trapping emissions in Australia

    What is Australia’s contribution to the climate emergency, and how successfully is it acting to address it?
  • Palm trees sway as the wind and rain from Hurricane Beryl pass through Kingston, Jamaica.

    Hurricane Beryl hits Jamaica after leaving ‘Armageddon-like’ trail in Grenada

    Jamaican PM says worst is yet to come as category 4 storm hits southern coast after causing at least seven deaths in region
  • Devastation caused by Hurricane Beryl in St Vincent and the Grenadines

    ‘Please send help’: Caribbean reels from Hurricane Beryl devastation

    Homes flattened, apocalyptic scenes and at least four dead as St Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada try to recover

June 2024

  • A sinkhole forms on a soccer field in Illinois<br>A drone view shows a sinkhole that formed on a turf soccer field at Gordon Moore Park in Alton, Illinois, U.S., June 27, 2024. REUTERS/Lawrence Bryant

    Sinkhole appears in soccer field above Illinois mine: ‘Out of a movie’

  • TOPSHOT-PNG-LANDSLIDE<br>TOPSHOT - Locals react during search and rescue efforts at the site of a landslide at Yambali village in the region of Maip Mulitaka in Papua New Guinea's Enga Province on May 29, 2024. Survivors of a deadly Papua New Guinea landslide face a "significant risk of disease outbreak" and are yet to receive sufficient food and clean water supplies, a United Nations agency said on May 30. Six days after a mountainside community was buried in a sea of soil, boulders and debris, the United Nations' migration agency said water sources had become tainted and the risk of disease was soaring. (Photo by Emmanuel Eralia / AFP) (Photo by EMMANUEL ERALIA/AFP via Getty Images)

    ‘Our hearts are heavy’: anguish as Papua New Guinea picks up the pieces after deadly landslide

May 2024

  • Urban forestry workers remove branches from a redwood tree as they prepare to cut it down next to Wayfarers Chapel.

    Landslides force dismantling of Frank Lloyd Wright Jr’s celebrated glass chapel: ‘It’s a crying shame’

    Relocation of the Wayfarers Chapel on the Pacific coast shows the vulnerability of cultural sites in an increasingly volatile climate
  • PPapua New Guinea's prime minister, James Marape, (second left) talking with officials at the site of a landslide at Yambali village on Friday.

    Papua New Guinea’s PM makes first visit to site of deadly landslide

    James Marape apologises for not making journey sooner, as ongoing instability hampers recovery and poses risk to residents

    • Fresh volcanic eruption triggers evacuation in south-west Iceland

    • Hundreds killed after landslide flattens remote Papua New Guinea village – video

    • ‘I’ve only the clothes on my back’: lives swept away by floods in Kenya

April 2024

  • People standing in the street looking at a building where the ground floor has collapsed and is leaning at an angle

    ‘As well prepared as they could be’: how Taiwan kept death toll low in massive earthquake

  • CCTV caught the moment the earthquake hit a maternity centre in Taipei

    0:45

    Maternity centre staff rush to secure babies in cots during Taiwan earthquake – video

  • Helicopters airlifted people trapped in the mountainous area of Hualien in Taiwan

    1:11

    Mine workers trapped in mountains after Taiwan quake – video

  • The moment Taiwan’s strongest earthquake in 25 years started has been captured on video

    1:15

    Moment earthquake strikes captured on cameras across Taiwan – video

February 2024

  • A woman floats in water

    ‘I love you,’ I whisper to the waterhole. When I wake up tomorrow, will it be gone?

    Jessie Cole
  • A cyclone causes damage off the east coast of Australia

    Natural disasters could cost NSW $9bn a year by 2060, analysis finds

  • Fire damaged property is seen in Pomonal, Victoria, Thursday, February 15, 2024. Fire crews are hoping more favourable conditions will help extinguish three out-of-control bushfires in Victoria's west and central regions. (AAP Image/Pool/Justin McManus) NO ARCHIVING

    Victoria fires and storms destroy at least 60 homes as prolonged power outage payments announced

  • A ute veers to the opposite side of the road to avoid a large pothole

    The rural network
    ‘Filling potholes with rocks’: the $2bn task to repair NSW’s flood-damaged roads

  • ‘This is the end’: people who fled Icelandic volcano fear their town will not survive

  • Iceland volcano erupts for second time this year with lava close to power plant

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