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On July 17, at about 8:48 in the morning local time, a powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck off Mexico’s Pacific coast. The epicenter was located in the ocean off the coast of the state of Chiapas, near the border with Guatemala, approximately 34 miles west-southwes...

Hot, dry weather led to a sharp deterioration in wildfire conditions across southern Spain.

On the evening of July 6, eastern Hubei Province in China was struck by a powerful thunderstorm system. Torrential rain and destructive winds swept across Huangshi, Huanggang, Ezhou, and Xianning, but the most devastating effects came from several tornadoes that tore th...

In early July, Tropical Storm Bavi formed over the western Pacific Ocean and began rapidly gaining strength as it approached the Mariana Islands.

In late June, Japan and Taiwan faced a prolonged series of powerful downpours during East Asia’s rainy season. In Taiwan, rainfall intensified as Typhoon Mekkhala approached, while in Japan, the seasonal rain front was affected by two tropical cyclones at once: Mekkhala...

In Russia’s Sverdlovsk Region, the city of Kushva was struck by a tornado that is rare for the Ural region. On June 22, a powerful vortex moved not through a forested area, as more often happens in the region, but directly through the city’s built-up areas. That is why...

In late June, two strong seismic events occurred in Japan, causing damage and noticeable consequences.

On June 24, Venezuela experienced one of the most destructive seismic episodes in the country in the past two centuries. It was a seismic doublet: two powerful earthquakes that occurred almost back to back, less than one minute apart. The first, with a magnitude of 7.2,...

On the morning of June 16, a powerful magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck Central Sulawesi Province in Indonesia. According to Indonesia’s Agency for Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics, the seismic event occurred at 10:27 a.m. local time. The epicenter was on land, ab...

On June 11, the central United States experienced a new dangerous wave of extreme weather. This was not a local episode, but a regional outbreak of severe storms with tornadoes that affected several states at once: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, and Missouri.

On the morning of June 8, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck off the coast of the Philippine island of Mindanao. According to the Philippine seismic service, the tremor was recorded at 7:37 in the morning local time, about 20 miles southwest of the city of Maasim in Sara...

In the second half of May, China came under the influence of several dangerous natural processes at once. In different parts of the country, heavy downpours, floods, landslides, and seismic activity were developing almost simultaneously.

In recent years, wildfire activity in the United States has remained high. According to the National Interagency Fire Center, by May 23, nearly 2.35 million acres had already burned across the country. For comparison, over the entire year of 2025, slightly more than 5.1...

Mayon Volcano in the Philippines has once again reminded people of its dangerous power through a series of alarming events that changed life in Albay Province in just a few days. According to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, the first signs o...

On April 20 at 4:53 p.m. local time, a powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Sanriku, Japan. The hypocenter was located at a depth of about 12 miles.

Synchronous strikes of extreme weather across different continents: Saudi Arabia faced historic hailstorms that turned deserts into “ice rivers,” while Vietnam experienced destructive storms with hailstones up to 7 cm in size. Against this backdrop, Super Typhoon “Sinla...

The central states of the United States have been hit by a powerful series of storms. Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Missouri were the hardest affected.

Super Typhoon Sinlaku became one of the most powerful and at the same time anomalous tropical cyclones in the western part of the Pacific Ocean. It formed over the waters of Micronesia as an ordinary thunderstorm system, but then began to develop at an unusually high ra...

Heavy rainfall that began on March 26 triggered devastating floods across 25 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces.

In the early morning of April 2, a powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 struck northeastern Indonesia. The epicenter was located in the waters of the Molucca Sea, approximately 80 miles southeast of the city of Bitung in North Sulawesi Province, at a depth of abo...