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UPDATE: Tonga braces for Cyclone Winston
Villagers in northern Tongan islands are hunkering down in churches and hoteliers are boarding up buildings as Cyclone Winston threatens…
Cyclone Winston back to Severe Cat 4 – and may reach Category 5
Severe Cyclone Winston continues to churn north of New Zealand near Tonga and Fiji and today has been upgraded from…
Pakistan: Children starving; crops dying – El Niño blamed
Pakistan’s Tharparkar district is entering its third straight year of drought, with nearly 200 deaths since January, many of them…
Australia: Fire, flood, and…snow? Tasmania’s crazy summer
Fires, flood and now snow: Tasmania has had a summer of weather extremes. After weeks of warm and dry weather,…
Antarctica: 150 thousand penguins die after giant iceberg traps colony
About 150,000 penguins have died since being stranded by a vast iceberg that became lodged off the coast of Antarctica…
Antarctica: 150 thousand penguins die after giant iceberg traps colony
About 150,000 penguins have died since being stranded by a vast iceberg that became lodged off the coast of Antarctica…
Tropical downpours come to New Zealand this week (+3 Maps)
We may not be directly hit by Winston but the tropical airflow behind this cyclone to our north, coupled with…
NEW POLL: Cyclones – Love them or hate them?
Many people have written on our Twitter and Facebook pages, as well as commented on our website about being disappointed…
Astronomy: Earth ‘looks very sick’ from space
In one of his final interviews from the International Space Station, astronaut Scott Kelly said that the Earth’s atmosphere “looks…
Severe Cyclone Winston closest to NZ today (+4 maps)
The centre of Severe Cyclone Winston will be closest to New Zealand today before swinging back north and returning towards…
