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The super volcano located beneath Yellowstone National Park in Wyonming, USA is rising at a record rate since 2004, putting at risk a terrible eruption.
A United Nations report said that the Haiti earthquake and hot weather in Russia made 2010 the deadliest year in at least two decades.
At least 257 people were killed when heavy rains caused floods and landslides in many mountain towns of Brazil yesterday.
Mankind does not seem to be reassured when it has not escaped the words of
Earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions, super typhoons, snow storms, landslides and droughts rob the lives of at least 300,000 people in 2010.
A humanitarian organization in the UK yesterday announced that around 21,000 people around the world died from drought and flooding in the first nine months of this year…
Global warming is making the Northern Hemisphere forest fires become more frequent and intense, contributing to increasing the risk of climate change quickly.
Countless people have survived by hiding forests near the coast, when the 2004 tsunami killed more than 230,000 people in Indonesia, India, Thailand and Sri Lanka.
On November 5, the workshop on developing a cross-border cooperation plan for emergency flood control between An Giang and Kandal (Cambodia) took place in An Giang provi…
Why is there a tsunami phenomenon, why is there a tsunami near the sea but there are areas near the sea that do not have tsunamis or very rarely occur ?.
The weather is unpredictable and complicated, but many people still neglect that the impact of climate change is far from reaching us, ...
The Deepwater Horizon disaster has been confirmed by the latest US government estimates as the largest marine oil leak ever.
Nature's rampant tsunami and volcanic eruptions in Indonesia have killed at least 182 people and 400 missing since yesterday.
Bauxite residue (red mud) is a liquid waste containing metals, which can pose a potential risk to human health.
Floods in Pakistan, mass fires in Russia and super typhoons in Mexico show that natural disasters continue to set new records this year.