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Natural disasters and extreme weather

The latest news and comment on natural disasters and extreme weather

August 2020

  • Hurricane Isaias Brushes Along Florida’s Eastern Coast<br>MIAMI, FLORIDA - AUGUST 01: Storm clouds are seen over the city as Hurricane Isaias approaches the east coast of Florida on August 01, 2020 in Miami, Florida. The hurricane is expected to brush past the east coast of Florida within the next 24 hours. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

    Florida closes beaches as Hurricane Isaias barrels through Bahamas

    State readies evacuation centers with Covid-19 protective measures as Bahamas and North Carolina order evacuations

July 2020

  • DOMINICAN REP-US-WEATHER-HURRICANE-ISAIAS<br>This RAMMB/CIRA satellite image shows Hurricane Isaias over the Dominican Republic on July 31, 2020 at 04:40:18 UTC. - Isaias strengthened from a tropical storm to a Category 1 hurricane as it moved towards the Bahamas and the southern US state of Florida, the National Hurricane Center said early on July 31. (Photo by Maro SIRANOSIAN / RAMMB/CIRA / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT “AFP PHOTO / RAMMB/CIRA “ - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by MARO SIRANOSIAN/RAMMB/CIRA/AFP via Getty Images)

    Hurricane Isaias drenches Bahamas as Florida braces for storm

  • A group of people walk along Seawall Boulevard as heavy winds arrive, Saturday, July 25, 2020, in Galveston, Texas. Outer bands of Hurricane Hanna are affecting the Houston and Galveston areas. (Godofredo A. Vásquez/Houston Chronicle via AP)

    'You need to pay attention': virus-hit Texas readies for hurricane threat

  • Burning embers cover the ground as firefighters battle against bushfires around the town of Nowra, New South Wales on December 31, 2019.

    After the bushfires
    Australia's 'black summer' bushfires showed the impact of human-wrought change

    Tim Flannery
  • A view of damaged houses along Terrigal beach in New South Wales, Australia, 27 July 2020

    Extra 23 million people could face coastal flooding within 30 years, even with emission cuts, study says

  • Animals farmed
    'Everything is burning': Argentina's delta fires rage out of control

  • After the bushfires
    Life and death: what readers in Australia are seeing post-bushfires

  • After the bushfires
    Australia after the bushfires

  • Fire, Flood and Plague – essays about 2020
    ‘Energised by disruption’: 2020 sows a new way forward for food

    Gabrielle Chan

  • NSW weather: heavy rain, flooding and huge waves threaten homes on south and Central Coast

  • Wamberal beach erosion: seawall would deliver no net benefit, study finds

  • Hurricane Hanna: storm hits Texas counties struggling with Covid-19

  • Hurricane Hanna makes landfall in Texas with winds up to 90mph

  • Australian Politics
    Will the government stop the environmental decline? – Australian politics live podcast

  • 'You can see it in their eyes': long after the bushfires the pain lingers in Cobargo

  • 'A critical situation': Bangladesh in crisis as monsoon floods follow super-cyclone

  • Against the tide: storm-battered residents cling to beachfront homes on Australian east coast

  • Two firefighters injured as northern California wildfires prompt evacuations

  • Flooding in Assam and Nepal kills hundreds and displaces millions

  • China blows up dam on Yangtze river tributary to ease flooding

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