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Hurricane Dorian: catastrophic 185mph winds batter Bahamas as entire US coast is evacuated
Hurricane Dorian struck the northern Bahamas as a catastrophic Category 5 storm with record 185mph winds ripping off roofs, overturning cars and tearing down power lines. The storm’s top sustained winds decreased slightly to 170mph as its westward movement slowed, crawling along Grand Bahama island early on Monday at 2mph in what forecasters said would…
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World’s 2nd-largest Ebola outbreak surpasses 3,000 cases
The second-largest, second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in history has exceeded 3,000 cases and 2,000 deaths as the yearlong epidemic continues despite access to an experimental vaccine and developmental treatments. A total of 3,004 people have reported symptoms of hemorrhagic fever in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo since Aug. 1 of last year, according to Congolese…
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Amazon fires: Why is the rainforest burning?
The Amazon has been on fire for the last three weeks. And those blazes — they’re actually visible from space — have resulted in widespread outrage and alarm among lawmakers, environmental activists, and celebrities. This year, the number of fires in Brazil is the highest on record since 2013 and is up by 85 percent…
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Moscow possibly on track for coldest August on record
The first week of August in Moscow was cold, with an average air temperature of only 13°C. That is 5 degrees below the norm and corresponds more to the last days of the month. How does that compare with other Augusts in Moscow? The coldest August on record, with an average daily air temperature of 12°C,…
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23 dead, 13,000 people hospitalized as heatwave continues to scorch Japan
TOKYO, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) — Japan’s Fire and Disaster Management Agency said Wednesday that 23 people died among 12,751 people who were rushed to hospitals due to heat-related illnesses across Japan over the week from Aug. 5. Amid a protracted heatwave that has scorched wide swathes of Japan, the agency’s preliminary data showed that the…
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India Flood Toll Jumps to 144 as Roads, Highways Cut off
An aerial view of locals being rescued on a boat in waterlogged Jamkhandi Taluk at Belgaum district of Karnataka state in the south Indian city of Bangalore, Aug. 11, 2019. NEW DELHI – Indian authorities on Sunday mounted a major rescue and relief efforts as the death toll from monsoon floods which cut off roads…
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Turkey: Quake damaged nearly 1,000 buildings, official says
Minor damage, from an earthquake, is seen on a street as residents stay out of buildings and on streets in Bozkurt, in Denizli province, west Turkey, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019. The earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 6.0 hit western Turkey, damaging homes and causing some injuries, officials said. Bozkurt’s mayor, Birsen Celik, told media…
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Guatemala dengue outbreak nears 10K cases, predominantly of the DEN-2 serotype
Guatemala/CIA The Guatemala Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance is reporting a significant increase in dengue fever cases in 2019 to date. On 29 July, the Minister of Health declared an Epidemiological Red Alert to report an “epidemiological crisis due to the increase in dengue cases” affecting over 75 percent of the country. They…
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Deadly earthquake hits off Indonesia’s Java island
Jakarta: A strong earthquake that hit off Java island killed four people and damaged more than 200 houses, swaying buildings as far away as Indonesia’s capital, officials said on Saturday. The US Geological Survey said Friday night’s magnitude 6.8 quake was centered 151 kilometers from Banten province off Java’s southwest coast. Agus Wibowo, the National Disaster…
