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The latest news and comment on natural disasters and extreme weather

23 August 2020

  • Cal Fire firefighter Anthony Quiroz defends a home in Boulder Creek, California, during the CZU Lightning Complex Fire.

    California wildfires: Trump declares major disaster as state braces for worsening conditions

    Forecasters have issued a red flag warning for Sunday morning through Monday night as blazes have burned more than 900,000 acres
  • CA_Wildfires<br>Michelle and Carlos Jacinto sit in their car at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa to eat their lunch and take a break from sitting inside their designated temporary evacuation center where they have spent the past two nights after evacuating from their home in Forestville, California. They packed up their car with their dogs, pictures and important papers. Michelle and Carlos had come to this evacuation center last year during the fires and said this time is different, they make them wear masks and keep them distanced from other people in the gymnasium. Sonoma County August 20, 2020.

    The Californians with nowhere to go as wildfires rage – photo essay

    Tens of thousands have been forced to leave their homes to escape the flames. Photographer Rachel Bujalski meets evacuees
  • Robert Reich

    Amid fire and pestilence, floods and storms, the personal is political: Trump must go

    Robert Reich
    Americans face existential challenges. The president has done nothing to help and much to make things worse

22 August 2020

  • Tropical Storm Isaias approaches Miami Beach in Florida in early August. Meteorologists this month increased their predictions of an ‘extremely active’ season from a 60% chance to 85%.

    Could the US and Caribbean be heading for their worst hurricane season?

    Experts say they are concerned as two potential hurricanes head north – and coronavirus is complicating matters

21 August 2020

  • Hennesy Fire LNU Lightning Complex Fires, Evacuation Zone, Vacaville, California, United States - 19 Aug 2020<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times/REX/Shutterstock (10750510k) Firefighters battle fires along Lyon road during the Hennessy Fire on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020 in Vacaville, CA. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) Hennesy Fire LNU Lightning Complex Fires, Evacuation Zone, Vacaville, California, United States - 19 Aug 2020

    'We are struggling': California under strain as fires burn area the size of Rhode Island – as it happened

    Wildfires in California which have displaced tens of thousands of people and killed at least six people, in the midst of a heatwave and a pandemic
  • TOPSHOT-US-WILDFIRES-CALIFORNIA-FIRE-ENVIRONMENT-WEATHER<br>TOPSHOT - An aircraft drops fire retardant on a ridge during the Walbridge fire, part of the larger LNU Lightning Complex fire as flames continue to spread in Healdsburg, California on August 20, 2020. - A series of massive fires in northern and central California forced more evacuations as they quickly spread August 20, darkening the skies and dangerously affecting air quality. (Photo by JOSH EDELSON / AFP) (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

    California's wildfires explained: how did they start – and is this normal?

    Extreme weather set the stage for the blazes tearing through cities and rural areas. They are likely to continue for weeks

    • California wildfires torch area bigger than Rhode Island as resources stretched thin

    • US faces threat of two Caribbean storms hitting simultaneously as hurricanes

    • Climate countdown
      The climate crisis has already arrived. Just look to California’s abnormal wildfires

      Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano

20 August 2020

  • Debris piles burn as the LNU Lightning Complex fire burns through the area on 19 August 2020 in Fairfield, California.

    California wildfires: firefighters stretched thin as blazes grow rapidly

  • California fires

    California fires: hundreds of blazes burn amid scorching heatwave – as it happened

  • Upstream from the dam, officials in the city of Chongqing, Sichuan province, evacuated almost 300,000 residents

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    China floods: Three Gorges dam gushes with water while streets are submerged – video

  • Water gushes from the Three Gorges dam in Hubei province. The megaproject took 12 years to build.

    Anxiety grows as China’s Three Gorges dam hits highest level

  • Smoke chokes California as dozens of wildfires rage – as it happened

  • California wildfires: thousands evacuate as 'siege' of flames overwhelms state

19 August 2020

  • The Leshan Giant Buddha, a 1,200-year-old Unesco world heritage site.

    China floods: 100,000 evacuated as waters reach Giant Buddha statue

  • Coastal erosion is seen from a balcony Ocean View Dr, Wamberal at Terrigal Beach, on the NSW Central Coast, NSW, Monday, August 10, 2020. Heavy rain and wild weather have battered NSW South Coast with communities evacuated while Sydney and the Blue Mountains are also being lashed with brutal rain and winds. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

    NSW weather warning: damaging winds, dust storms and bushfires lash state

18 August 2020

  • Spot fires burn on a hillside caused by a lightning strike along Marsh Creek Road in Brentwood, Calif., on Monday, Aug. 17, 2020. California firefighters battled destructive wildfires Monday as a lengthening heat wave roasted the state. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group via AP)

    California governor declares state of emergency as dozens of wildfires rage

    Fires prompt some areas to issue mandatory evacuations and temperatures soar into triple digits in historic heatwave

17 August 2020

  • Regrowth

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    After the bushfires: what can be done to save Australia's native species?

  • Moment huge dust storm sweeps through Arizona – video

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