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Los Llanos De Aridane, Spain (AFP) Sept 22, 2021 - The vast wall of molten lava creeping down the slopes of Spain's La Palma island has destroyed 320 buildings and over 154 hectares of land, Europe's volcano observatory said Wednesday.
Jun 26, 2026
Managua (AFP) Sept 23, 2015 - The Telica volcano in northwestern Nicaragua erupted Wednesday, sending up dense columns of ash that settled over six surrounding villages, civil defense officials in the area said.
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La Palma, Spain (AFP) Sept 19, 2021 - The Cumbre Vieja volcano erupted on Spain's Canary Islands Sunday, spewing out lava, ash and a huge column of smoke after days of increased seismic activity and forcing the evacuation of around 5,000 local people, authorities said.
Jun 26, 2026
Bangkok (AFP) Sept 17, 2024 - A global network of doctors and laboratories is working to pinpoint emerging viral threats, including many driven by climate change, in a bid to head off the world's next pandemic.
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Marseille (AFP) Sept 6, 2021 - How much is a tree worth when its roots are in the ground and its leaves are helping suck carbon from the air? Answer: in most places, far less than the dollar value of its wood.
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Bindura, Zimbabwe (AFP) Sept 24, 2015 - Villagers in Zimbabwe are skipping meals and foraging for wild fruit as food stocks run out after a poor harvest blamed on drought and controversial land reforms.
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Amritsar, India (AFP) Sept 2, 2025 - A thousand villages in India's Punjab state are marooned by deadly floods, with thousands forced to seek shelter in relief camps, government authorities say.
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Karim Bakhsh, Pakistan (AFP) Sept 1, 2022 - The southern Pakistan village of Karim Bakhsh is almost entirely under muddy water after catastrophic monsoon rains - hardly any stable buildings are left for shelter, the wheat silos are empty and venomous snakes are a constant threat.
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Athens (AFP) Sept 29, 2024 - Authorities evacuated a village after a forest fire broke out on Sunday near the seaside town of Xylokastro in the Peloponnese region of southern Greece, firefighters said.
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Hanoi (AFP) Sept 30, 2009 - Typhoons and tropical storms kill dozens of people each year in Vietnam. Here is a chronology of recent major disasters:
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Hanoi (AFP) Sept 29, 2014 - Vietnam's economy grew at its fastest rate for three years in the first nine months of 2014, government figures showed Monday, despite deadly anti-China riots that targeted factories and threatened to dent foreign investment.
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Vladivostok, Russia (AFP) Sept 7, 2012 - Nations could soon be engaged in conflicts over access to water, Vietnam's president warned Friday, as he called for sustainable exploitation of Southeast Asia's Mekong River.
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Hanoi (AFP) Sept 16, 2024 - Typhoon Yagi caused $1.6 billion in economic losses in Vietnam, state media said Monday, as the UN's World Food Programme said the deadly floods it triggered in Myanmar were the worst in the country's recent history.
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Hanoi (AFP) Sept 28, 2024 - Vietnam suffered $3.3 billion in economic losses as a result of deadly Typhoon Yagi, which swept across the country's north earlier this month causing hundreds of fatalities, state media reported Saturday.
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Hanoi (AFP) Sept 17, 2020 - Vietnam is planning to evacuate more than one million people as a severe tropical storm bears down on its central coastal region, threatening flooding and landslides, authorities said Thursday.
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Hanoi (AFP) Sept 20, 2023 - Vietnam has detained the director of an independent energy policy think tank, a rights group said Wednesday, the sixth person working on environmental issues taken into custody in the past two years.
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