Nearly 100 mm of rain fell in just 12 hours on Tuesday, partly thanks to the UAE’s cloud seeding operations.
A couple of vehicles, including trucks, were launched off the N1 bridge just before the Huguenot Tunnel outside Paarl, roofs split and shattered in the wind blowing over Gordon’s Bay, while trees broke and debris was flung into the roads all over the rest of the Western Cape this weekend.
The spherical damper, named Damper Baby, moves back and forth during earthquakes or typhoons, which are common occurrences on the island.
The biggest earthquake in Taiwan in at least 25 years managed to take nine lives on Wednesday and injure more than 900 people.
The 30-page report investigating the avoidable accident revealed Greig Oliver was put in such a position to make the crash “unsurvivable”.
A video shows a charging bull elephant in the Pilanesberg National Park as it lifts the safari jeep with tourists inside cowering behind their seats.
The close call happened during a live show at Crocodile Creek, in Greylands – 14 kilometres from Ballito – after which the handler was rushed to the hospital.
Heavy rainfall in the area has been blamed for destabilising the ground on the mountains slopes around San Mateo.
The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) reported the quake about 76 kilometres West of Cape Town at a shallow depth of 10 kilometres.
It must have been a sight to behold watching all the people come together to help each other.
17 years later the ship is still sitting in the ocean, leaking toxins, chemicals and heavy metals into the ocean all around the world-famous Greek island and its beautiful caldera.
Although scientists are learning more with every eruption, there’s still a great deal of uncertainty for Iceland as a new volcanic era begins.
SANParks request that the public continue to be vigilant and report any fires or suspicious activity immediately.
Over 100 firefighters were dispatched on Wednesday to help contain a wildfire that started to spread across the mountain.
Experts labelled this eruption as the “worst-case scenario,” exacerbated by the failure of defences constructed after a previous eruption in December.
There were a total of 75 hikers in and around the crater of the volcano, with 12 people still missing.
This is a feel good story if you haven’t heard one yet today – about good samaritans going above and beyond to help their fellow humans.
The managing director of Working on Fire said that 2023 was “the year of the planet burning, both figuratively and literally”.
Shocking footage is making its way around social media, showing steam rising from the large gashes in roads and sidewalks.
On Monday, parts of Johannesburg were ravaged by an extreme hailstorm while a tornado threatened residents in Standerton in Mpumalanga.
While it is true that in the summer of 2016, a terrifying disease clawed its way out of the previously frozen ground, sending chills across the globe as the media rang the alarm over ‘zombie viruses’ coming from melting permafrost, this seems to be less of a concern to scientists watching the world warm.
The scientists expressed their alarm and fear for reaching this dire crossroads, warning that the climate crisis could threaten the lives of up to six billion people this century.
It looks like a total hellscape. If this doesn’t make people realise climate catastrophe is happening now, then I don’t know what will.
Wildlife can be severely disrupted when icebergs crash into islands, particularly if the bergs become stranded on the seafloor encircling the remote landmasses.
Footage of the devastation left behind by the recent Cape storms has been flooding our feeds for the last few days, but as we count the costs of nature’s tantrum, likely and unlikely heroes are emerging from the deluge of bad news.
It is clear that this year has been our wettest in the last 10 years, but the Heritage Day weekend alone saw more rainfall than anything before in the province’s recent history.
The Western Cape was hammered by severe storms this long weekend, causing road closures, mudslides and stranding thousands of people.
A cyclist got away within an inch of his life when a construction crane caught on fire and smashed into a building in Manhattan, sending debris into the streets below.
Large parts of Europe resembles a post-apocalyptic movie as recent footage shows fires lapping at Italy’s Palermo’s international airport while two pilots were killed when their firefighting aeroplane lost control and crashed.
“The water is what saved us,” a helicopter pilot said in court last week, detailing how he and two of his passengers had escaped death by jumping into the ocean when a New Zealand volcano erupted four years ago.