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The IndependentSuper Typhoon Yagi live: Deadly storm makes landfall in China as 400,000 evacuated
Transport links, schools and businesses have been shut across Hong Kong, Southern China and Macau as the typhoon hit Guangdong
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World's largest indoor ski resort opens in Shanghai as China logs hottest month
Shanghai opened the world's largest indoor ski resort on Friday, welcoming visitors in snowsuits to its pistes as China reported its hottest August in 60 years.On Friday, the Shanghai L*SNOW Indoor Skiing Theme Resort was officially certified by Guinness World Records as the world's largest, overtaking the previous record-holder -- also in China, in northern Harbin.
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London weather: Thunderstorms hit capital as southern England braces for second day of heavy rain
Met Office issued another yellow warning for rain for Friday with travel disruption and flooding possible
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Typhoon Yagi makes landfall in northern Vietnam. Authorities shutter airports and order evacuations
Typhoon Yagi made landfall Saturday afternoon in northern Vietnam where authorities shuttered airports and evacuated the most vulnerable. The typhoon, described by Vietnamese meteorological authorities as “one of the most powerful typhoons in the region over the past decade," made its way to the Southeast Asian country after it left two people dead and nearly a hundred others injured in the Chinese province of Hainan. Yagi landed at Vietnam's coastal provinces of Quang Ninh and Haiphong with wind speeds of up to 149 kilometers per hour (92 miles per hour), state media reported.
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Typhoon Yagi Makes Landfall in South China With Winds Exceeding 138 MPH
Typhoon Yagi made landfall on Hainan island in southern China on Friday afternoon, September 6, bringing heavy rain, winds exceeding 138 mph, and an increased risk of landslides, according to the China Meteorological Administration.This timelapse satellite imagery, posted by the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere at Colorado State University, shows the typhoon swirling over Hainan and the Leizhou Peninsula as it moved west toward northern Vietnam.The imagery was captured over about 14.5 hours, from 7:20 am to 10 pm on Friday, according to a timestamp on the video. Credit: CSU/CIRA & NOAA/NESDIS via Storyful
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Schools Suspended, Flights Cancelled as Super Typhoon Yagi Nears China
Super Typhoon Yagi could be seen spinning off the coast of Hainan and Guangdong on September 5, as China braced for an expected landfall on September 6.The China Meteorological Administration also warned of heavy rainfall, flooding, and increased danger of landslides into Friday.Schools in nearby Hong Kong were due to be suspended with flights already cancelled for Friday. Credit: CSU/CIRA & NOAA/NESDIS via Storyful
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Iraqi date farmers fight drought to protect national treasure
Bare feet pressed against the rough trunk of a palm tree, his back supported by a metal and fabric harness, Ali Abed begins the climb to the dates above.Rising at dawn to avoid the searing heat, harvesters climb the palms using only their upper body strength, aided by a harness and rope wrapped around the trunk.
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A million people are relocated as Typhoon Yagi makes 2 landfalls in southern China
A powerful typhoon made two landfalls in southern China Friday after it swept south of Hong Kong, bringing many aspects of life in the region to a halt and forcing about a million people in the country’s south to leave their homes. The Hainan province’s meteorological service said Yagi, which earlier packed winds of up to about 245 kph (152 mph) near its center, made landfall in the tropical vacation island's Wenchang city at around 4:20 p.m. China’s national meteorological authorities said Yagi was the strongest autumn typhoon to have landed in China.
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Thundery showers to hit large parts of UK with flooding still possible
A new band of ‘heavy and thundery rain’ will arrive on the south coast on Saturday and move northwards overnight.
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Super Typhoon Yagi slams into southern China after deadly pass through Philippines
Super Typhoon Yagi on Friday made landfall in southern China, barrelling into the Hainan and Guangdong provinces. The storm is the biggest to hit Asia in more than a decade and has led to hundreds of thousands of evacuations and schools and businesses to be shut. Yagi claimed more than a dozen lives when it swept through the northern Philippines earlier this week. Super Typhoon Yagi slammed into southern China’s Hainan island on Friday, bringing windspeeds of over 230 kilometres (143 miles) an h
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A 13-foot (and growing) python was seized from a New York home and sent to a zoo
A 13-foot (4-meter) Burmese python was confiscated from an upstate New York man who was keeping the still-growing snake in a small tank, authorities said. The state Department of Environmental Conservation said it got a complaint about an illegally owned snake in New Hartford on Aug. 28. Environment Conservation Police Officer Jeff Hull responded and found the snake in a 4-to-5-foot (1.2-to-1.5-meter) tank.
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State of Emergency Declared in California City amid Landslide Crisis: 'You Can Almost See the Ground Move'
"We’re all learning there is no playbook for an emergency like this one,” Los Angeles county supervisor Janice Hahn said
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New study reveals dozens of potentially risky viruses from dead fur animals in China
BEIJING, Sept 7 — A new study involving more than 450 dead fur-bearing animals in China has uncovered dozens of viruses,...
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As crews chainsaw Joshua trees, Mojave Desert community protests solar energy project
Mojave town protests solar energy project as crews chainsaw hundreds of protected Joshua trees
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Scotland could lose the capercaillie… again
Capercaillie are heading for a “second extinction” in Scotland’s forests, land managers have warned after recording a sharp drop in the number of males.
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Rare twin elephants take first steps in Myanmar
Baby elephant twins born last week on a timber camp in Myanmar are thriving after a wobbly first few days in the world, officials told AFP on Thursday. Pearl Sint was born a few minutes before her brother Kyaw Pearl last week at the 60-acre Wingabaw elephant camp in the Bago region operated by state-run Myanmar Timber Enterprise.
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‘Flight shame is dead’: concern grows over climate impact of tourism boom
Post-Covid hunger for travel is taking a heavy toll on the environment amid race to net zero, say experts
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Summer of 2024 was world's hottest on record, EU climate change monitor says
The world is emerging from its warmest northern hemisphere summer since records began, the European Union's climate change monitoring service said on Friday, as global warming continues to intensify. The boreal summer of June to August this year blew past last summer to become the world's warmest, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said in a monthly bulletin. "During the past three months of 2024, the globe has experienced the hottest June and August, the hottest day on record, and the hottest boreal summer on record," said C3S deputy director Samantha Burgess.
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Nancy Shukri orders investigation against school bus driver for filming students, calling them ‘crush’, ‘beloved’
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 6 — Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Nancy Shukri has instructed her offic...
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Woman ‘raped by 72 men after husband drugged her’ tells trial: ‘I was sacrificed on the altar of vice’
Gisele Pelicot, 72, says she was ‘treated like a rag doll’ during alleged abuse over a decade