DRC volcano: More than 100 children missing, earthquakes hit bordering area, Rwanda

Congolese residents of Goma flee from Mount Nyiragongo volcano as it erupts over Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo Saturday evening. File Photo by Kinsella Cunningham/EPA-EFE Congolese residents of Goma arrive in Rwanda Sunday after fleeing from Mount Nyiragongo volcano … Read More

Icelandic volcanic eruption – an awesome display of elemental power

Pandemic or no pandemic, the world will never standstill. That’s perhaps no clearer than in Iceland, where a volcano has awoken from a slumber that has lasted 6000 years, give or take a year or two. The glow from the … Read More

California Drought: Santa Rosa Officials Make 20 Percent Cut In Water Usage Voluntary For Now

SANTA ROSA (CBS SF/BCN) — In the grip of extreme drought, the Santa Rosa City Council has asked residents to voluntarily reduce their water consumption by 20 percent. The request comes weeks after the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors declared … Read More

Powerful Earthquake Rocks Iran Causing Vast Destruction

A shallow magnitude 5.3 earthquake was reported early morning near Bojnurd, North Khorasan, Iran. According to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), the quake hit on Monday 17 May 2021 at 3:04 am local time at a shallow depth … Read More

Afghanistan flash floods kill 160, search for bodies continues

KABUL (Reuters) – Rescuers in Afghanistan continued to search amidst mud and rubble for missing people on Saturday after flash flooding this week killed around 160 people and washed away homes across the country, officials said. Thirteen provinces, mostly in … Read More

As COVID-19 reaches rural India, “people are dropping dead like flies”

Gasping for breath Reuters/Adnan ABIDI On the evening of April 23, Dhanraj Singh, a 40-year blind man, arrived at the Sikanderpur community health centre in eastern Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia district, complaining of breathlessness. Singh, a resident of the nearby Bansi … Read More

Nearly half the U.S. is in drought and conditions are expected to grow worse, NOAA says

KEY POINTS Nearly half of the continental U.S. is in a moderate to exceptional drought, government forecasters said Thursday, and conditions are expected to grow more severe and persistent over the next three months. It’s the most significant spring drought … Read More

Lebanon battles swarms of locusts after wind changes direction

The locusts, which threaten crops, are the latest addition to a long list of challenges faced by Lebanon, which is battling its worst financial crisis in decades. A swarm of desert locusts fly near the town of Rumuruti, Kenya, January … Read More

India hits new record with COVID-19 infections, US vows aid

India’s infection surge has been blamed in part on a highly contagious variant. India has been battling the world’s worst COVID-19 outbreak and on Monday recorded another record in new cases with 352,991 in the past 24 hours along with … Read More

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