5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (593+ words) A volcano erupted in Indonesia on Sunday, prompting the cancellation of all flights at Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport and disrupting other domestic airports as about 170,000 passengers were stranded by ash drifting across western parts of the country. The volcanic island…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (566+ words) A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia early Saturday, collapsing buildings and homes, killing at least two people and causing panic in a region prone to deadly quakes. Authorities issued a tsunami warning and urged coastal residents…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (201+ words) Guatemala remained on alert Tuesday after evacuating hundreds of people following an eruption of the Fuego volcano, which is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire and one of Central America’s most active volcanoes. The country’s disaster management agency said…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (950+ words) Almost no other country in the world is rocked by such frequent and damaging earthquakes as Japan — an island nation that sits on the boundary of four tectonic plates, the constantly shifting slabs of the Earth's crust. It also lies…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago   (601+ words) Bavi previously brought strong winds and rain to Japan's southern islands and Taiwan Typhoon Bavi made landfall in China's eastern province of Zhejiang late on Saturday night and was expected to gradually weaken, according to China's national weather center. Related…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago   (503+ words) One of the strongest super typhoons on the planet this year was striking the US Pacific Islands on Monday morning, the second massive storm to hit the territories since April. The center of Super Typhoon Bavi, the equivalent of a…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (841+ words) Like plenty of local boys before him, Neil has come home to the stretch of Australian coast where he was born. Unlike most of them, he trails fame, fans and property damage in his wake. He is also a 1,000-kilogram…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (614+ words) Venezuela’s northern coast was hit by two powerful earthquakes within a minute of each other on Wednesday, collapsing buildings and sending residents fleeing onto the street. The U.S. Geological Survey warned that the successive quakes could cause thousands of casualties…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (581+ words) A cyclone that brought catastrophic flooding and devastating landslides to Indonesia wiped out more than 7% of the global population of the world’s rarest great apes, a new study has found. Nearly 60 of the 800 Tapanuli orangutans remaining in the wild were…...