Yellowknife and Kelowna wildfires burn in what is already Canada’s worst season on record

Rather than waiting to respond reactively to the next fire season, proactive preparation is the appropriate way forward

Hawaii: How will wildfires impact beautiful Maui Island

The disaster is projected to bring about drastic ecological changes including coral death, drinking water pollution and soil loss

Assam floods 2023: Around 34,000 people affected; IMD predicts heavy rain for next 5 days

Assam gets 2,818 millimetres of rainfall in a year and has received nearly 10 per cent of the rains in the last 10 days

As Arabian Sea cyclones like Biporjoy increase, the following of Karachi’s Abdullah Shah Ghazi could rise: Sarah Ansari

Down To Earth speaks to Sarah Ansari, professor of history at Royal Holloway, University of London, about the patron saint of …

Cyclone Mocha largely spares Bangladesh but not Myanmar; detailed damage not known yet

Rohingya refugees around Cox’s Bazar saved; but not those in camps of Sittwe city  

Cyclone Mocha may not hit India; Bangladesh, Myanmar coasts likely to be impacted

Cyclonic conditions are likely to increase temperatures by 3-5°C in the Indian subcontinent 

Turkey-Syria earthquake: a seismologist explains what just happened

Arabia is moving northwards into Europe, causing the Anatolian plate (which Turkey sits on) to be pushed out westwards

Volcano erupts in Guatemala, spewing ash 2 km into the sky

Central America has more than 100 volcanoes, many of which attract thousands of tourists from all over the world

International Day of Indigenous People: Floods in Godavari shed lights on tribals displaced by Polavaram

Project was hastily thrust on the people in 2004 without any clearances from any government authority

‘Patently ridiculous’: state government failures have exacerbated Sydney’s flood disaster

Measures that could significantly lower flood risk are expensive and politically hard. But as flood risks worsen with climate change, they’…

New research detects pre-eruption warning signals at Whakaari White Island and other active volcanoes

Scientifically and emotively, we think every volcano has its own “personality”. However, volcanoes share behaviour traits — and …

Indonesia volcano eruption: Death toll rises to 34

Some 3,000 people have been displaced and 38 schools have been destroyed because of the eruption of Mt Sumeru in Indonesia

On a precipice: Why the Himalayas are crumbling

Reckless construction of hydropower projects has made earthquake-prone Himachal Pradesh more vulnerable to landslides

Replanting trees can help prevent devastating landslides like the one in PNG — but it’s not a silver bullet

Landslides continue to increase for a few years after deforestation, indicating the decay of tree roots, decline and root strength and the …

Himalayan calamity

The Himalayan region accounted for 44 per cent of all the disasters reported in India 

Chennai Airport opens for traffic day after Cyclone Michaung wrought havoc on metropolis

Eight people killed in and around Chennai due to Michaung

Michaung heads for coastal Andhra Pradesh

Big impact around 12 noon on December 5

Cyclone Michaung claims five lives in Chennai city, Tamil Nadu districts

Electocution and drowining are the main causes

Sikkim’s Chungthang dam collapse signals the need for dam safety & emissions reduction

Any hydroelectric project situated downstream of unstable lakes carries the risk of being washed away.

Moroccan earthquake death toll rises to 2,900

The Morocco earthquake was caused due to a collision between the African and Eurasian plates

Popocatepetl, Etna, Nyamuragira: Volcanoes erupt on three continents

Ash spewed on towns and cities nearby by the three volcanoes throws normal life out of gear

Italy’s Mount Etna volcano erupts; spews ash, smoke

Flights from Catania suspended due to lack of visibility

Mocha likely to be the 2nd strongest cyclone to hit Myanmar in a decade

The cyclone can impact low-lying & flood-prone areas in Rakhine 

Why tornadoes are still hard to forecast — even though storm predictions are improving

Radar is still the biggest tool for determining when to issue a tornado warning

Turkey-Syria earthquakes: shallow depth of main shocks is a key reason why they’ve been so devastating

The shallower an earthquake is, the more intense and destructive the ground shaking