Italy’s Mount Etna, Europe’s largest active volcano, spews plumes of ash
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Smoke to pour into the US as Canada wildfires force province’s largest evacuation in ‘living memory’
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Groundwater is rapidly declining in the Colorado River Basin, satellite data show
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Lessons from hurricane Helene on evacuation orders, messaging and emergency managers
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MV Derbyshire: the sinking no one could explain
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Iceland's Grindavík play again after eighteen-month seismic gap – volcano caused devastation in 2023, but miraculously their football pitch survived unscathed
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Running the first 100km of the oldest river in the world to see what all the fuss is about. Unlike rivers affected by local populations of people, the Finke is affected by those who don’t live there.
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The Palisades Fire destroyed more than 1,200 buildings. Yet one newly built home—surrounded by ashes and charred foundations—stood almost untouched. How did it survive when its neighbors didn’t?
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Living among volcanoes is nothing new in Iceland – but as a new eruptive era begins, the Reykjavík region is honing defenses and rethinking development
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Riding the storm: Turning to non-admitted US insurers amid natural disasters and policy perils
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Arctic haze induced by an Icelandic volcanic eruption – evidence from China's highest-resolution trace gas monitoring
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Coolcations in destinations such as Norway, Iceland and Finland are expected to continue seeing a boom this summer – but could they cause overtourism in the Nordics?
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Scientists scramble to track Los Angeles wildfires’ long-term health impacts
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Race to save lives and ancient artefacts in South Korea as wildfires rage
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New fire maps put nearly four million Californians in hazardous zones
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Record-breaking wildfires in the Western US (2020) reduced solar radiation by up to 70%, darkening skies and lowering temperatures by 5°C
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Donald Trump says he opened California’s water. Local officials say he nearly flooded them.
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Photos and videos of latest Kilauea eruption - March 6, 2025
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The Japanese mayor who built a floodgate no one wanted — and saved his town from a massive tsunami after his death
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California Fire Relief Bundle
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Los Angeles races to save a vital piece of history – Ernest A. Batchelder tiles found amid wildfire ash
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Massive sinkholes put hundreds in Amazonian town at risk
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Fog harvesting could provide water for the driest cities
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A visualization of wildfires and climate change
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State of emergency declared on Santorini after earthquakes shake island
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Power company finds evidence of unusual flashes around start of Eaton fire in Los Angeles
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Playing God - Memorial Hospital during Hurricane Katrina (2017)
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Some residents say they were in the dark as Los Angeles fires spread with no evacuation order
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FireAid Los Angeles Benefit Concert livestream
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Slush flows can be more deadly than avalanches – Norwegian scientists are racing to help predict this hidden hazard
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Did a private equity fire truck industry consolidation worsen the Los Angeles fires?
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Eighteen months after Maui wildfires destroyed over 2,000 homes, only three have been rebuilt
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California’s insurance woes have triggered a cash-only crisis at this upscale community
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Wildfire smoke is always toxic. Los Angeles's is even worse. Experts expect long term health impacts.
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Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of engraved sun stones – linked with a large volcanic eruption that made the sun disappear throughout Northern Europe
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California fire facts
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How Watch Duty app became crucial for tracking the Los Angeles wildfires
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What's in the pink flame retardant planes are dropping on the Los Angeles fires?
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Why fire hydrants ran dry as wildfires tore through Los Angeles
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Drone collides with firefighting aircraft over Palisades fire, in Los Angeles, Federal Aviation Administration says
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This could be the beginning of the end for fire insurance in California
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Los Angeles area wildfires: over 5K acres burned and over 30K people forced to evacuate so far
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California will require insurance companies to offer coverage in wildfire zones
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Physical protective barriers have been built to hold back avalanches – but Svalbard has also turned to tech, with the help of a telecom firm and the University of Svalbard
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In a first, Arizona’s attorney general sues an industrial farm over its water use
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Costs from hurricane Helene more than $53 billion in North Carolina. Currently available funding is significantly less than that.
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California tsunami hazard area map
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Tsunami warning issued in Northern California after 7.0-magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast
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Panama is planning a new dam to secure water to operate the Canal
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Hurricane season appears to be unofficially over, so let’s do a quick review and talk about bomb cyclones in the West
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