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FILE PHOTO: Satellite view of the eruption of an underwater volcano off Tonga

Tonga Eruption Last Month Was Accompanied by Record-Breaking Lightning Storm

Manas Sharma and Simon Scarr 16/02/2022

There were a total of almost 590,000 lightning strikes...

A general view from a New Zealand Defence Force P-3K2 Orion surveillance flight shows ash covered homes and vegetation over Nomuka in Tonga

Tonga: UN Picks up Distress Signal, Extensive Damage and More Deaths Feared

Kirsty Needham and Praveen Menon 18/01/2022

The UN had earlier reported a distress signal was...

A Planet SkySat image shows a plume of smoke rising from the underwater volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai before its eruption

Concerns Mount for Tonga After Tsunami Triggered by Underwater Volcano

Praveen Menon 16/01/2022

Internet and phone lines went down at about 6:40...

FILE PHOTO: An aerial view shows the storage tanks for treated water at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture

Japan Says to Release Contaminated Fukushima Water Into Sea

Yuka Obayashi and Aaron Sheldrick 13/04/2021

The decision comes about three months ahead of the...

A worker talks on the phone near No. 3 reactor building at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture

Ten Years After Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Meltdown, Cause for Worry Persists

Ken Buesseler 13/03/2021

The cleanup of the past decade at the Japanese...

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How a Community Radio Gives Voice to the Climate-Vulnerable in Tamil Nadu

Kartik Chandramouli 25/09/2019

After Cyclone Gaja wreaked havoc in Tamil Nadu, a...

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14 Years After a Monster Tsunami, What Do We Know of the Quake That Caused It?

C.P. Rajendran 20/02/2019

Efforts to fully characterise the sequence of events on...