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Natural disasters

August 2024

  • A man wearing a yellow button-down and yellow hard hat stands in front of burning grass

    ‘I see what the fire may do’: the college student documenting wildfires from the frontlines

    Michael Steinberg, storm chaser and geography undergraduate, has been an essential source for many following the state’s roaring Park fire

July 2024

  • People search under the remains of a ceiling covered in mud and debris

    Death toll from landslides in India’s Kerala state rises to 166

  • Screenshot of emissions map of the world, showing per capita fossil fuel emissions by country

    The Crunch
    What’s happening with the climate crisis and heat-trapping emissions in Australia

  • Palm trees sway as the wind and rain from Hurricane Beryl pass through Kingston, Jamaica.

    Hurricane Beryl hits Jamaica after leaving ‘Armageddon-like’ trail in Grenada

  • Devastation caused by Hurricane Beryl in St Vincent and the Grenadines

    ‘Please send help’: Caribbean reels from Hurricane Beryl devastation

June 2024

  • A sinkhole forms on a soccer field in Illinois<br>A drone view shows a sinkhole that formed on a turf soccer field at Gordon Moore Park in Alton, Illinois, U.S., June 27, 2024. REUTERS/Lawrence Bryant

    Sinkhole appears in soccer field above Illinois mine: ‘Out of a movie’

    No one was present when sinkhole, 100ft wide and 30ft deep, suddenly collapsed field in Alton, north of St Louis
  • TOPSHOT-PNG-LANDSLIDE<br>TOPSHOT - Locals react during search and rescue efforts at the site of a landslide at Yambali village in the region of Maip Mulitaka in Papua New Guinea's Enga Province on May 29, 2024. Survivors of a deadly Papua New Guinea landslide face a "significant risk of disease outbreak" and are yet to receive sufficient food and clean water supplies, a United Nations agency said on May 30. Six days after a mountainside community was buried in a sea of soil, boulders and debris, the United Nations' migration agency said water sources had become tainted and the risk of disease was soaring. (Photo by Emmanuel Eralia / AFP) (Photo by EMMANUEL ERALIA/AFP via Getty Images)

    ‘Our hearts are heavy’: anguish as Papua New Guinea picks up the pieces after deadly landslide

    Weeks after the tragedy, frustrations rise over a bypass road that locals say offends their culture by disturbing ground where bodies remain buried
  • Urban forestry workers remove branches from a redwood tree as they prepare to cut it down next to Wayfarers Chapel.

    Landslides force dismantling of Frank Lloyd Wright Jr’s celebrated glass chapel: ‘It’s a crying shame’

    Relocation of the Wayfarers Chapel on the Pacific coast shows the vulnerability of cultural sites in an increasingly volatile climate

May 2024

  • PPapua New Guinea's prime minister, James Marape, (second left) talking with officials at the site of a landslide at Yambali village on Friday.

    Papua New Guinea’s PM makes first visit to site of deadly landslide

  • A volcano spews lava in Grindavik, Iceland.

    Fresh volcanic eruption triggers evacuation in south-west Iceland

  • Emergency response teams sent into village in remote Enga province, but blocked road is hampering efforts

    0:51

    Hundreds killed after landslide flattens remote Papua New Guinea village – video

  • A woman stands ankle deep in murky water in a slum alleyway.

    ‘I’ve only the clothes on my back’: lives swept away by floods in Kenya

April 2024

  • People standing in the street looking at a building where the ground floor has collapsed and is leaning at an angle

    ‘As well prepared as they could be’: how Taiwan kept death toll low in massive earthquake

  • CCTV caught the moment the earthquake hit a maternity centre in Taipei

    0:45

    Maternity centre staff rush to secure babies in cots during Taiwan earthquake – video

  • Helicopters airlifted people trapped in the mountainous area of Hualien in Taiwan

    1:11

    Mine workers trapped in mountains after Taiwan quake – video

  • The moment Taiwan’s strongest earthquake in 25 years started has been captured on video

    1:15

    Moment earthquake strikes captured on cameras across Taiwan – video

February 2024

  • A woman floats in water

    ‘I love you,’ I whisper to the waterhole. When I wake up tomorrow, will it be gone?

    Jessie Cole
  • A cyclone causes damage off the east coast of Australia

    Natural disasters could cost NSW $9bn a year by 2060, analysis finds

  • Fire damaged property is seen in Pomonal, Victoria, Thursday, February 15, 2024. Fire crews are hoping more favourable conditions will help extinguish three out-of-control bushfires in Victoria's west and central regions. (AAP Image/Pool/Justin McManus) NO ARCHIVING

    Victoria fires and storms destroy at least 60 homes as prolonged power outage payments announced

  • A ute veers to the opposite side of the road to avoid a large pothole

    The rural network
    ‘Filling potholes with rocks’: the $2bn task to repair NSW’s flood-damaged roads

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