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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

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

    • Pakistan floods: at least 90 killed in monsoon rains

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

25 August 2020

  • CZU August Lightning Complex Fire Boulder Creek, Ridge Drive, Boulder Creek, California, United States - 23 Aug 2020<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times/REX/Shutterstock (10754102a) Firefighters at a house at the end of Ridge drive during the CZU Lightning complex fire on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020 in Boulder Creek, CA (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) CZU August Lightning Complex Fire Boulder Creek, Ridge Drive, Boulder Creek, California, United States - 23 Aug 2020

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

    Officials say progress was made against the the LNU Lightning Complex and the CZU Lightning Complex fires
  • Louisiana braces for two Atlantic storms in one week<br>epaselect epa08622621 A young child rides his bike by a line of sand bags in Jean Lafitte, Louisiana, USA, 24 August 2020. South Louisiana is bracing for the impact of two storms in one week with Tropical Storm Marco make landfall later on the same day and Tropical Storm Laura predicted to make landfall as a hurricane along the Louisiana and Texas coastline on 27 August. EPA/DAN ANDERSON

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

    Major storm heading to US after killing nearly two dozen on the island of Hispaniola, 20 in Haiti and three in the Dominican Republic

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

    • Wildfires raging across California 'historic' – as it happened

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

24 August 2020

  • 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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