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Owners of New Zealand volcano that fatally erupted deny responsibility for visitor safety September 21, 2023
White Island/Whakaari volcano exploded in 2019, prompting debate over natural hazard tourismThe landowners of a New Zealand volcano that fatally erupted in 2019 have rejected arguments from the country’s workplace safety regulator that they ultimately managed and controlled activities on the island and bore legal responsibility for whether visitors to it were safe.When White Island/Whakaari […]
Charlotte Graham-McLay in Wellington
Paradise review – visually striking account of Siberian wildfires leans towards abstraction May 27, 2023
Alexander Abaturov’s stunning film captures the resilience of villagers in remote Shologon, but feels contextlessDue to a combination of climate change and state neglect, giant wildfires raged through millions of hectares of land in northeastern Siberia in the summer of 2021. Classified as “control zones” by the Russian government, the region gets little aid from […]
Phuong Le
‘The sea is rising, the climate is changing’: the lessons learned from Mozambique’s deadly cyclone January 2, 2021
As another severe tropical storm hits Mozambique, people still struggling to rebuild lives destroyed by 2019’s Cyclone Idai tell their storiesThe tree had stood in the square for nearly 100 years. It was planted by his father, before Afonso Reis was born. He worked as a driver and “liked trees”, says Reis, who is in […]
Sally Williams
'It was a feeling of terror: when will the water stop?': Britain's flood victims, six months on August 29, 2020
In the weeks before lockdown, thousands had their lives upturned as storms submerged vast areas of the UK. What happened next?Emma Laughton’s memories of the days before lockdown may not be like yours. When the shops and supermarkets around her home in east Yorkshire overflowed with people in search of essentials, she was trying to […]
Simon Usborne
Hurricane Laura: storm to bring 'unsurvivable surge' of destruction to US Gulf coast August 26, 2020
Half a million people have been ordered to evacuate as storm is predicted to reach Texas and Louisiana as a category 4 hurricane Wednesday eveningHurricane Laura is expected to bring an “unsurvivable storm surge with large and destructive waves” to parts of the US Gulf coast late Wednesday or early Thursday, officials warned, as half […]
Oliver Laughland in New Orleans and Adam Gabbatt in New York
Iowa's farmers count the cost of a rare storm – photo essay August 26, 2020
The hurricane-like storm, called a derecho, tore through Iowa this month, damaging buildings and threatening the harvest A rare inland storm known as a derecho passed through the state of Iowa on 10 August, leaving widespread damage in its wake.Winds reaching 140 miles an hour demolished many parts of the city of Cedar Rapids. But […]
Jordan Gale
‘Wake-up call’: wildfires tear through drought-plagued US south-west August 26, 2020
Hot, dry conditions make Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah fertile ground for enormous blazesMore than two dozen wildfires are burning across the American south-west as the region’s summers continue getting hotter and drier, laying bare the intensifying consequences of climate change.A continued drought this summer has made the south-west a tinderbox, with over a […]
Cody Nelson in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Pakistan floods: at least 90 killed in monsoon rains August 26, 2020
Streets and homes flooded with sewage in Karachi as downpours overwhelm outdated waste system in country’s largest cityThree days of monsoon rains have killed at least 90 people and damaged at least a thousand homes across Pakistan, the country’s national disaster management agency has said.Streets and homes were flooded with sewage water in Karachi on […]
Associated Press
California fires: firefighters work to contain two of the largest blazes as 7,000 others burn – as it happened August 26, 2020
LNU Lightning Complex and SCU Lightning Complex fires partially containedHope as warning lifted and deadliest blaze is 25% containedExplainer: how did they start – and is this normal?Sign up to our First Thing newsletterWonder where animals go in a wildfire? Read this very sweet San Francisco Chronicle story to find out.A “vast network” of animal […]
Kari Paul (now) and Adam Gabbatt (earlier)
California: firefighters begin to turn tide but warn that 'mega-fire era' has arrived August 25, 2020
Officials say progress was made against the the LNU Lightning Complex and the CZU Lightning Complex firesWildfires explained: how did they start – and is this normal?Firefighters caught a slight break in efforts to contain the barrage of wildfire that has burned more than 1.2m acres across California, displacing tens of thousands amid the coronavirus […]
Maanvi Singh in Oakland

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