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Against the tide: Filipinos battle rising sea on sinking island
AFP, Published on 11/09/2025
» BULACAN, Philippines - On the Philippine island of Pugad, street food vendor Maria Tamayo wakes before her grandchildren to begin the backbreaking work of removing seawater from her home scoop by scoop with a plastic dustpan.
Swedish church rolls into new home after two-day journey
AFP, Published on 20/08/2025
» KIRUNA, Sweden - A landmark Swedish church in the Arctic arrived Wednesday at its new home after a two-day move across the town of Kiruna to allow Europe’s biggest underground mine to expand.
Indonesia revives $10.5bn Jakarta sea wall plan
Bloomberg News, Published on 10/01/2024
» JAKARTA - Indonesia is reviving plans to construct a giant sea wall in the latest of a series of measures to prevent its capital city Jakarta from sinking at a faster rate.
'Like hell': India's burning coalfields
AFP, Published on 14/07/2023
» DHANBAD (INDIA) - Deadly fires have raged for a century in mines in India's Jharkhand state, where Savitri Mahto is one of 100,000 people risking their lives shovelling coal to supply insatiable demand.
3 dead as powerful earthquake strikes Papua New Guinea
AFP, Published on 03/04/2023
» At least three people were killed after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake shook a remote region of northwestern Papua New Guinea before dawn Monday.
Venice recruits next generation in flooding fight
AFP, Published on 25/01/2023
» VENICE - As rising waters fuel fears that Venice may one day be entirely submerged, local children are being educated on how to protect the lagoon, a fragile ecosystem threatened by climate change.
A drought-hit California town finds itself sinking into the ground
AFP, Published on 08/08/2021
» CORCORAN (UNITED STATES) - "You've got too many farmers pumping all around," complained Raul Atilano. This octogenarian resident of Corcoran, the self-proclaimed farming capital of California, was struggling to make sense of the strangest of phenomena: his already suffering town is sinking, ever so gradually, into the ground.
Israeli team reaches Florida building collapse, 156 still missing
AFP, Published on 27/06/2021
» SURFSIDE, US: A team of Israeli search-and-rescue specialists on Sunday joined American workers at the site of a Florida apartment building that partially collapsed Thursday, killing at least five people with 156 still missing.
Still 'hope' as rescuers race fire to find Florida collapse survivors
AFP, Published on 26/06/2021
» SURFSIDE (UNITED STATES) - Florida officials continued to hold out hope Saturday for survivors of a high-rise apartment building that partially collapsed three years after an engineer had warned of "major structural damage."
Demands for answers in aftermath of Florida building collapse
AFP, Published on 26/06/2021
» WASHINGTON - Rescuers are still searching for survivors in rubble of the collapsed Florida apartment tower, but pressure is building -- from families of missing residents to the state's governor -- for answers on how such a disaster could have occurred.