• Active volcanoes in the world – last 7 days report

    17 volcanoes have shown changes in activity last week. New unusual activity has been noticed around 5 volcanoes (below).BEZYMIANNYCentral Kamchatka (Russia) 55.978°N, 160.587°E; summit elev. 2882 mKVERT reported that during 24 February-2 March seismic activity at

  • Tropical Cyclone Irina updates and forecast track

    Cyclone Irina remains a threat to the KwaZulu-Natal coast with a combination of very rough seas, marine storm surge, as well as gale-force and devastating floods. Many people have had their homes destroyed by the cyclone. About 300 houses had been flooded. South

  • TC Irina could bring flooding rain to Southeast Africa

    Tropical Cyclone Irina could make landfall on the southeastern coast of Africa in matter of hours with damaging winds and  flooding rain. Eastern South Africa, southernmost Mozambique as well as the small nation of Swaziland are in the path of dangerous cyclone. The

  • New tropical cyclone Irina formed in Mozambique Channel

    A new tropical cyclone (14S) named Irina has formed and is now active in the Mozambique Channel. It’s located approximately 270 NM (500 km) northwest of Antananarivo, Madagascar. It’s strengthening tropical storm with 35 knot current sustained winds and is expected to

  • Lessons from Fukushima: new Greenpeace report on nuclear risks

    It has been almost 12 months since the Fukushima nuclear disaster began. The nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant that began unfolding on March 11, 2011 is the biggest since the Chernobyl disaster of 1986. Although the Great Tohoku earthquake and the