NEWSWORTHY
How to sum up Japan's summer of disaster in Japanese?
The summer of 2018 was one for the books — busting meteorological records, wreaking havoc and devastating entire regions along the coast of western Japan.
A powerful tornado that carved a path through parts of Canada's capital snapped trees, tossed cars and obliterated dozens of homes leaving what the city's mayor on Saturday said resembled "a war scene." More than 150,000 customers were still without power following the tornado, which ...
Eight days after Hurricane Florence, floodwaters still rising in Carolinas
With muddy river water still washing over entire communities on Friday, eight days after Hurricane Florence slammed into land, new evacuation orders forced residents to flee to higher ground in a sprawling disaster that was beginning to feel like it would never end. At least ...
Florence portends more massive, slow-moving hurricanes in age of global warming: scientists
Global warming has increased the likelihood of more massive, sluggish storms like Florence, capable of dropping record amounts of rain and causing the type of catastrophic flooding that crippled North and South Carolina this week, experts said. Most meteorologists agree that climate change can increase ...
Typhoon Mangkhut lashes southern China after earlier killing 36 in Philippines
Typhoon Mangkhut barreled into southern China on Sunday after lashing the northern Philippines with strong winds and heavy rain that left at least 36 people dead and dozens more feared buried in a landslide. More than 2.4 million people had been relocated in southern China's ...
Experts explain why deadly storms Florence, Mangkhut are as different as water and wind
Nature expresses its fury in sundry ways. Two deadly storms — Hurricane Florence and Typhoon Mangkhut — roared ashore on the same day, half a world apart, but the way they spread devastation was as different as water and wind. Storms in the Western Pacific ...
Floodwaters rise, leaving at least 11 dead as Tropical Storm Florence dumps epic rain on Carolinas
As the death toll from Florence mounted and hundreds of people were pulled from flooded homes, North Carolina is bracing for what could be the next stage of a still-unfolding disaster: widespread, catastrophic river flooding. After blowing ashore as a hurricane with winds of 90 ...
U.S. Coast Guard member reassigned over 'white power' gesture during TV interview
A U.S. Coast Guard member assigned to hurricane duty has been removed after being caught on television making a gesture that some viewers alleged was a white power symbol. "We are aware of the offensive video on Twitter — the Coast Guard has identified the ...
Ferocious Typhoon Mangkhut knocks out power as it plows through northeast Philippines
Typhoon Mangkhut slammed into the Philippines' northeastern coast early Saturday, its ferocious winds and blinding rain ripping off tin roof sheets and knocking out power, and plowed through the agricultural region at the start of the onslaught. The typhoon made landfall before dawn in the ...
At least five dead as Hurricane Florence makes landfall in the U.S. and drenches the Carolinas
Blowing ashore with howling 90 mph (155 kph) winds, Florence splintered buildings, trapped hundreds of people and swamped entire communities along the U.S.'s Carolina coast Friday in what could be just the opening act in a watery, two-part, slow-motion disaster. At least five people ...
Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina early Friday, pushing a life-threatening storm surge of floodwater miles inland and ripping apart buildings with screaming wind and pelting rain. More than 60 people had to be pulled from a collapsing motel at the height of the ...
The Philippines raised its storm warning on Friday and warned of major destruction hours before Typhoon Mangkhut was due to make landfall with fierce winds and drenching rains. Thousands have already fled their homes on the Philippines' northern coastal tip ahead of the early Saturday ...
