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Natural disasters and extreme weather

The latest news and comment on natural disasters and extreme weather

September 2023

  • White Island is pictured on December 08, 2020 off the coast of Whakatane, New Zealand.

    Owners of New Zealand volcano that fatally erupted deny responsibility for visitor safety

    White Island/Whakaari volcano exploded in 2019, prompting debate over natural hazard tourism

May 2023

  • Paradise film still

    Paradise review – visually striking account of Siberian wildfires leans towards abstraction

    Alexander Abaturov’s stunning film captures the resilience of villagers in remote Shologon, but feels contextless

January 2021

  • Mother and farmer Palmira Mussa, 38, standing by her banana tree which is being destroyed by locusts

    ‘The sea is rising, the climate is changing’: the lessons learned from Mozambique’s deadly cyclone

    As another severe tropical storm hits Mozambique, people still struggling to rebuild lives destroyed by 2019’s Cyclone Idai tell their stories

29 August 2020

  • The Bridge House guesthouse in Hawick after its outer wall collapsed into the River Teviot earlier this year

    'It was a feeling of terror: when will the water stop?': Britain's flood victims, six months on

    In the weeks before lockdown, thousands had their lives upturned as storms submerged vast areas of the UK. What happened next?

26 August 2020

  • US-WEATHER<br>A car drives under an ominous rain cloud from tropical storm Marco as locals prepare for the arrival of hurricane Laura near Lake Charles, Louisiana on August 25, 2020. - Storm Laura was upgraded to a destructive hurricane on August 25 and is forecast to make landfall along the Texas or Louisiana coasts on Wednesday night, after earlier causing 20 deaths in Haiti.”Laura has become a hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph (120 km/h), with higher gusts,” the US National Hurricane Center reported. (Photo by Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

    Hurricane Laura: storm to bring 'unsurvivable surge' of destruction to US Gulf coast

    Half a million people have been ordered to evacuate as storm is predicted to reach Texas and Louisiana as a category 4 hurricane Wednesday evening
  • Alvin Pavlis and his wife, Donna, have farmed their land for nearly 50 years.

    The Guardian picture essay
    Iowa's farmers count the cost of a rare storm – photo essay

    The hurricane-like storm, called a derecho, tore through Iowa this month, damaging buildings and threatening the harvest
  • A Sikorsky Skycrane helicopter drops water on the Grizzly Creek Fire on the east end of Glenwood Canyon, Monday, Aug. 17, 2020 near Glenwood Springs, Colo. Four large wildfires continue to burn in hot and dry weather in Colorado. (Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via AP)

    ‘Wake-up call’: wildfires tear through drought-plagued US south-west

    Hot, dry conditions make Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah fertile ground for enormous blazes

25 August 2020

  • Monsoon rains flood streets of Karachi<br>epa08624493 People make their way through a flooded road after heavy rains in Karachi, Pakistan, 25 August 2020. Heavy monsoon rain flooded several areas of Karachi causing traffic jams and power outages. EPA/SHAHZAIB AKBER

    Pakistan floods: at least 90 killed in monsoon rains

    Streets and homes flooded with sewage in Karachi as downpours overwhelm outdated waste system in country’s largest city
  • CZU LIghtening Complex Fire: Destruction, Santa Cruz County, California, USA - 24 Aug 2020<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Amy Katz/ZUMA Wire/REX/Shutterstock (10754916i) Destroyed home on Empire Grade Road, in the Bonny Doon neighborhood, accessible from Highway 1 (Cabrillo Highway). Over 200 homes have been destroyed and many others damaged in the CZU Lightening Complex Fire. CZU LIghtening Complex Fire: Destruction, Santa Cruz County, California, USA - 24 Aug 2020

    California fires: firefighters work to contain two of the largest blazes as 7,000 others burn – as it happened

    LNU Lightning Complex and SCU Lightning Complex fires partially contained, after seven people have died in fires

    • California: firefighters begin to turn tide but warn that 'mega-fire era' has arrived

    • Laura strengthens into a hurricane and expected to slam Texas and Louisiana

    • ‘Next fire season is already upon us’: NSW to adopt all recommendations of bushfire inquiry report

24 August 2020

  • California lighting sparked wildfire and evacuations<br>epa08621105 Fire fighters keeps an eye on a back fire they set to burn off fuel near a home in Ben Lomond, California, USA, 23 August 2020, as the CZU Lightning Complex fire continues to burn well into its 7 day with more than 67,000 acres burned, 115 structures destroyed, 5% containment and approximately 70,000 people evacuated across two counties on 23 August. EPA/PETER DASILVA

    Wildfires raging across California 'historic' – as it happened

  • A firefighter keeps watch as crews light backfires near Groveland, California

    California wildfire death toll up to seven as huge blazes burn on

  • Louisiana Prepares For Two Major Storms Expected This Week<br>NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - AUGUST 23: Workers board up windows in the French Quarter in anticipation of Hurricane Marco and Tropical storm Laura on August 23, 2020 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Both storms are expected to make landfall along the Louisiana coast within days of each other. (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images)

    Tropical Storm Marco heads to Louisiana as Tropical Storm Laura approaches Cuba

  • First Dog on the Moon

    First Dog on the Moon
    Last Australian fire season was terrible it changed everything (and nothing)

    First Dog on the Moon

23 August 2020

  • Firefighter monitor the advance of the CZU August Lightning Complex Fire in Boulder Creek, California.

    California wildfires: more storms feared as huge blazes burn on

  • A farmworker inspects a strawberry under gray skies in a field near Moss Landing, California.

    ‘An impossible choice’: farmworkers pick a paycheck over health despite smoke-filled air

  • A picture made available by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Tropical Storm Marco, top left, and Laura, center, moving over the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico.

    Hurricane Marco and Tropical Storm Laura bear down on Louisiana

  • &nbsp; Dramatic footage shows the moment a helicopter rescued two stranded firefighters from advancing wildfires in California&nbsp;&nbsp;

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    California wildfires: helicopter rescues firefighters as blaze advances – video

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