Manila Floods – 2009

9 years ago

Flooding is a regular problem in the Philippines, but the disaster that occurred in September 2009, when Typhoon Ketsana lashed…

Black Saturday Bushfires – 2009

9 years ago

Extreme weather conditions made it possible, but the evil hand of man made a fatal contribution to the series of…

Kenya Drought – 2008-2009

9 years ago

Is it global warming starting to impact negatively on millions of people in Africa, or is a normal weather cycle…

Cyclone Nargis – 2008

9 years ago

The worst natural disaster in the long history of Myanmar was caused by the ominously named Very Severe Tropical Cyclonic…

Hurricane Katrina – 2005

9 years ago

The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was a bad time to be living along the Gulf Coast in Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana…

Mumbai Monsoon – 2005

9 years ago

Weather forecasters don’t always get it right - or even agree with each other. So it was ahead of India’s…

Indian Ocean Tsunami – 2004

9 years ago

When is an earthquake not an earthquake? Answer, when it’s a tsunami. Of course that’s just wordplay, because the Sumatra-Andaman…

Hurricane Ivan – 2004

9 years ago

If hurricanes had a motto, Ivan’s would have been ‘boom-bang-a-bang’. For Hurricane Ivan was in the top ten most intense…

Bam Earthquake – 2003

9 years ago

For countless centuries the world’s largest adobe building was the Bam Citadel in the southeast of modern-day Iran, begun before…

The European Heatwave – 2003

9 years ago

In August 2003, Europe struggled under the highest temperatures ever recorded in the northern hemisphere. The Earth Policy Institute (EPI)…