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Philippine security forces pour into typhoon-hit towns
Nov 11, 2013 (AFP)
Hundreds of Philippine soldiers and police poured into a city devastated by Super Typhoon Haiyan on Monday to try to contain looting that threatens an emergency...
Disaster experts warn on avoiding 2004 mistakes in Philippines
Nov 11, 2013 (AFP)
Disaster experts warned Monday that mistakes made in the relief effort after the catastrophic 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami must not be repeated with the super typh...
Philippines struggles to help desperate typhoon victims
Nov 11, 2013 (AFP)
Philippines rescue workers struggled to bring aid to famished and destitute survivors Monday after a super typhoon that may have killed more than 10,000 people,...
World sends emergency relief to battered Philippines
Nov 11, 2013 (AFP)
The United States, Australia and the United Nations are mobilising emergency aid to the Philippines as the scale of the devastation unleashed by Super Typhoon H...
'Miracle' baby born in Philippine typhoon rubble
Nov 11, 2013 (AFP)
Emily Sagalis cried tears of joy after giving birth to a "miracle" girl in a typhoon-ravaged Philippine city, then named the baby after her mother who went miss...
Tormented survivors of Philippine typhoon raid the dead
Nov 10, 2013 (AFP)
Tormented survivors of a typhoon that is feared to have killed more than 10,000 in the Philippines rummaged for food Sunday through debris scattered with corpse...
Survivors desperate for aid in typhoon-ravaged Philippines
Nov 10, 2013 (AFP)
Survivors of a super typhoon that may have killed more than 10,000 people in the Philippines were growing increasingly desperate for aid Monday, as authorities ...
EU mulls tough options to deal with Mediterranean migrants
Nov 08, 2013 (UPI)
EU policymakers face tough choices as they ponder how to deal with a rising tide of migrants fleeing turmoil in neighboring Africa and the Mediterranean. Arab, ...
How to Manage Nature's Runaway Freight Trains
Oct 30, 2013 (SPX)
Last month's torrential rains and flooding in Colorado made headlines, but there's another, far more common and growing weather-related threat western states ar...
Outside View: Superstorm Sandy survivors still suffer a year later
Oct 29, 2013 (UPI)
A year after devastating Superstorm Sandy struck the New York-New Jersey area, emotions are still raw. As a psychologist who has provided mental health first ai...
Uruguay to pull peacekeepers from Haiti: president
Oct 29, 2013 (AFP)
Uruguay's President Jose Mujica said Tuesday he plans to withdraw his country's peacekeeping troops from Haiti because of the lack of democratic progress there....
Storm-battered northern Europe slowly gets back to normal
Oct 29, 2013 (AFP)
Countries in northern Europe lashed by a storm that killed 16 people were on Tuesday still struggling with power outages and travel disruptions a day after the ...
Space technologies boost disaster reduction int'l co-op
Oct 28, 2013 (XNA)
Another China-Brazil satellite will be launched from China at the end of this year to collect data for disaster prevention and environmental protection. The sat...
Sandy's Lessons Include: Put Parks, Not Houses, On the Beach
Oct 28, 2013 (SPX)
Just days before Hurricane Sandy hit the New York and New Jersey coastline on 29 October 2012, scientists from the City University of New York's (CUNY) College ...
Sandy suffering still acute in the Rockaways
Oct 28, 2013 (AFP)
A year on, the suffering wrought by Hurricane Sandy is still acute on the Rockaways, the narrow peninsula of Long Island once popular with day trippers and tour...
Sandy swallows up New York community
Oct 27, 2013 (AFP)
After Hurricane Sandy, many Americans ignored warnings about climate change to rebuild homes in flood zones. But in one New York community, homeowners have deci...
Sandy clean-up 'enormous' one year on
Oct 26, 2013 (AFP)
A year after Hurricane Sandy, the United States still faces an enormous task to repair $60 billion worth of damage and improve resiliency before the next cyclon...
Search to save smallest survivors of Australia fires
Oct 24, 2013 (AFP)
As the Blue Mountains bushfire threat eases and hundreds of residents return to their homes a relief and rescue operation is just beginning for its smallest vic...
Quake-triggered landslides pose significant hazard for Seattle
Oct 23, 2013 (SPX)
A new study suggests the next big quake on the Seattle fault may cause devastating damage from landslides, greater than previously thought and beyond the areas ...
Indian farmer gets one-dollar cheque in flood relief
Oct 23, 2013 (AFP)
An Indian farmer who says his home and crops were badly damaged by severe floods this year has received government compensation of just 80 rupees ($1.31), a rep...
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