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Australia: Tasmania residents remain stranded as floodwaters subside
The search for two men swept away in floodwaters earlier this week has become a recovery mission. Police now hold…
Canada: Huge sinkhole swallows van in Ottawa (+VIDEO)
A sinkhole spanning the length of a four-lane road has opened in downtown Ottawa, swallowing a van, causing a gas…
Australia: Tasmania flooding finally receding – spiders seek refuge in trees (+VIDEO)
Spiders trying to escape rising floodwaters in northern Tasmania have turned treetops white with silk thanks to a phenomenon known…
WATCH – The “doorway to hell” crater – what it says about our melting permafrost (+VIDEO)
It has been nicknamed Gateway of the Underworld. And not only is the Batagaika crater in Siberia widening each year,…
Australia: Sydney houses ‘cracking up’ (+VIDEO)
Residents of storm-struck Collaroy remain on edge, bracing to be hit by another monster high tide as they watch their…
Australia: Sydney endures ‘worst storms in a decade’ (+VIDEO)
Houses in Sydney’s northern beaches copped a battering, as huge seas swept away the yards of multi-million dollar beachfront homes….
Floods, a drought and a waterspout – Your Week in Weather Headlines
It seems like we’ve been saying it every week, but that’s because it’s true – we’ve had a crazy past…
Europe – Another lightning strike leaves more than 70 injured (+VIDEO)
A rock music festival in Germany was halted for five hours after lightning strikes injured 71 people, and organisers urged…
USA – 5 Soldiers dead after Texas flooding (+VIDEO)
Five Fort Hood soldiers are dead and four are missing, the latest victims of an onslaught of flooding in Texas…
USA – Geological survey shows Alaskan wildfires ‘driving climate change’
The devastating rise in Alaska’s wildfires is making global warming even worse than scientists expected, US government researchers said on…
