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A landslide-blocked surge on the Budhigandaki swept away motorable and foot bridges in northern Gorkha, destroyed dozens of homes, and left trekkers cut off as Nepal counts five missing.
Air Force Reserve hurricane hunters measured 150 mph winds and a 932-millibar core as Category 4 Simon crept north off Mexico’s Pacific coast, with landfall expected Sunday along a stretch already under hurricane warnings.
The first hurricane to strike the eastern United States this season crossed the Florida Panhandle as a Category 2 storm before fading inland, but utility trackers still counted more than 800,000 outages across three states as governors kept emergency orders in force.
A major offshore tremor near southern Panama collapsed structures, triggered tsunami alerts across the Pacific coast, and kept seismologists counting dozens of aftershocks into Saturday.
The first Atlantic hurricane of 2026 came ashore with 105 mph winds near Destin, Florida, after coastal evacuations as forecasters warned of surge, flooding and tornado risk inland toward Atlanta.
Isaias became the Atlantic season’s first hurricane overnight with 85 mph winds, and governors from Florida to Alabama have declared emergencies ahead of a Friday night landfall near Pensacola.
Record downpours flooded garages and campsites north of Barcelona, left two confirmed dead, and pushed the Besòs toward overflow as storms shifted toward Girona.
Rescuers recovered the last eight bodies from Himlung Himal base camp on Thursday, leaving one guide missing under more than four metres of snow as Nepal’s autumn climbing window narrows.
Energy ministers from Algeria, Tunisia, Italy, Austria and Germany signed a ministerial declaration in Algiers that stands up a technical secretariat for the SoutH2 corridor, a planned link that could move millions of tonnes of green hydrogen north across the Mediterranean.
Four days of monsoon rain have revived landslide and flood risk across central Nepal, leaving five people missing, hundreds of families displaced, and hydropower plants offline weeks after the Bhotekoshi disaster.
President Trump signed a pre-landfall emergency declaration as Hurricane Nolo stalled south of the Big Island with 105 mph winds, flooding channels still clogged from August’s Hurricane Lala.
Nepal's disaster agency now lists 1,453 dead and 5,285 missing after the Aug. 26 Bhotekoshi border floods, with DNA profiling still delaying identifications at 21 holding centres.
Forecasters are watching Invest 93L and Invest 94L in the southwest Atlantic for tropical development and a possible Fujiwhara interaction that could steer one system toward the Southeast or Mid-Atlantic while funneling tropical moisture into the Carolinas and Appalachians as early as this weekend.
The United Nations General Assembly adopted a consensus declaration on sea-level rise on Thursday after negotiators finalized text in August, framing four pillars—data, adaptation finance, livelihoods, and legal statehood questions—for vulnerable coastal nations that say warming is already swallowing habitable land.
Nepali authorities said Tuesday that 1,451 bodies have been recovered since flash floods tore through the Bhotekoshi river system in late August, while more than 4,700 people remain missing and forensic teams lean on international DNA help to identify remains.
The Liberian-flagged bulk carrier Cape Falcon ran aground six nautical miles east of Queensland’s Port of Gladstone on Friday, prompting an Australian Transport Safety Bureau probe even as authorities report no injuries, pollution, or hull breach.
California’s Air Resources Board ordered surprise emissions checks on drayage trucks at the Port of Long Beach after September ozone readings exceeded federal limits, tightening enforcement atop Advanced Clean Fleets and Clean Truck Check rules.
Typhoon Dujuan prompted Level 4 “prepare to evacuate” advisories across parts of the Izu Islands and Kanto on Monday as the Japan Meteorological Agency warned of landslides and violent winds, forcing the Tokyo Game Show to cancel its final day and JR East to suspend several Chiba and Ibaraki lines during Silver Week travel.
Japan’s meteorological agency issued its highest landslide warning for Oshima in the Izu chain as Typhoon Dujuan neared the Kanto coast, prompting evacuation advisories for more than 1.6 million people and hundreds of flight cancellations.