Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki volcano erupts, killing 9 people

Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki, located on Flores Island, erupted on Sunday at 11.57 pm, belching a fiery-red column of lava, volcanic ash and blazing rocks, Hadi Wijaya, a spokesperson for The Center of Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation. At least 10 people died after Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki in eastern Indonesia erupted near midnight on Sunday, spewing […]

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Landslides, floods threaten Japan: 200,000 people urged to evacuate

Authorities have ordered 200,000 people to evacuate western Japan due to landslides and floods. They have been told to leave by Saturday (November 2). The Japan Meteorological Agency said warm, humid winds were bringing heavy rain and thunderstorms to western Japan. Matsuyama city has issued a top-level warning, urging 189,552 residents in 10 districts to […]

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Pakistan shuts primary schools in Lahore over record pollution

Pakistan’s second city of Lahore will close primary schools for a week over record pollution, government authorities said Sunday, to avoid exposing millions of children to smog several times above levels deemed dangerous. For days, the city of 14 million people has been enveloped by smog, a mix of fog and pollutants caused by low-grade […]

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Climate shifts and urbanisation drive Nepal dengue surge

Only a single case of dengue was recorded in Nepal in 2004. Two decades later, thousands of cases are being reported across the country. Nepal is fighting a surge in dengue cases, a potentially deadly disease once unheard of in the country’s high-altitude Himalayan regions, as climate change and urbanisation nurture fever-bringing mosquitoes in new […]

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Typhoon ‘Kong-Re’ may hit at a speed of 300 kilometers

Typhoon Kong-Rei could hit Taiwan’s east coast on Thursday, prompting the country’s meteorological department to issue warnings of heavy rain and winds in several parts of the island. The US Navy’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center said on Wednesday that the storm, with winds of about 300 kilometers per hour (186 miles per hour) at its […]

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Bhutan’s Gelephu ‘Mindfulness City’ A Global Game-Changer. Know All About It

Bhutan, considered one of the happiest countries in the world, is working on a mega project, one that has the potential to redefine not just how sustainable living can be achieved, but become a global model unlike any other in the world today. The project – a mega ‘Mindfulness City’ in Gelephu. The Gelephu ‘Mindfulness […]

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Death toll from Typhoon Trami in the Philippines has passed 100

The death toll from Typhoon Trami, which hit the northeastern coast of the Philippines, has risen to more than 100. The country’s disaster management agency said Trami, the deadliest storm of the year, hit on Friday. More than half a million people have been displaced by the storm. Al Jazeera reported on Sunday (October 27). […]

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Death toll from floods rises to 76 in Philippines after storm

The death toll from floods in the Philippines has risen to 76. The floods were caused by the influence of summer storm ‘Trami’. ‘Trami’ hit the northeastern coast of Luzon, the most populous island of the Philippines, on Thursday. The storm caused flooding and landslides. Although Trami was initially reported to have killed 26 people, […]

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Tropical Storm Trami wreaks havoc in the Philippines, at least 26 dead

Trami, locally known as severe tropical storm Kristine, dumped heavy to torrential rain on the main island of Luzon triggering widespread flooding and landslides. Tropical Storm Trami has killed at least 26 people and forced more than 150,000 to flee their homes in the Philippines, officials said on Thursday, as it made landfall on the […]

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