typhoon, Tag

The British Airforce has committed to modifying military aircraft to run on biofuel. My question - does the war end when the chip fat runs out?

The springtime cherry blossom festival in Japan is an annual celebration that draws in spectators from all around the world. For the Japanese, the 'hanami,' or flower viewing, is a moment shared among family and friends who...

In November 2013, super-typhoon Haiyan battered the central Philippines and destroyed over four million households—including the NGO Streetlight’s orphanage, office, and study center...

China may have decided to steer away from “weird architecture”, but bizarre new buildings continue to pop up throughout the country. The new Ecology Center in Kunshan is one of the strangest we've seen - it looks a giant...

An intense typhoon that meteorologists have called a “near-perfect storm” ripped through Taiwan today, leaving a trail of destruction, dozens injured, and two deaths in its wake...

In addition to wreaking incredible human devastation, Typhoon Haiyan is predicted to have unleashed a huge amount of carbon into the atmosphere. A group of scientists recently published a study in Environmental Research Letters...

While I was away being Radley's Provocateur-in-Residence (yes, it went very well, thank you) someone calling himself Sai Gon Seamus (an expatriate Irishman living in Vietnam, I'm guessing) Tweeted this at me: @JamesDelingpole...

Here is the sort of headlines we had Friday, for example this one from Huffington Post where they got all excited about some early reports from Andrew Freedman: Super Typhoon Haiyan — which is one of the strongest storms...

Here is the sort of headlines we had Friday, for example this one from Huffington Post where they got all excited about some early reports from Andrew Freedman: Super Typhoon Haiyan — which is one of the strongest storms...

A "once-in-a-decade" typhoon has hit the Japanese coast, and while its winds weakened from a peak of 130-156mph—Category 4 status—heavy rain and landslides have claimed 17 lives on Oshima Island and caused over 20,000...

In the South China Sea, Typhoon Usagi is flooding the Chinese coast and Hong Kong with waves of 45 feet and wind gusts of 150 miles per hour -- fast enough to sweep cars off the road...

Even with the expected active 2010 North Atlantic hurricane season, which accounts on average for about 1/5 of global annual hurricane output, the rest of the global tropics has been historically quiet.  The Western North...

On September. 26, Typhoon Ketsana hit the Philippines, submerging houses, triggering landslides and killing nearly 300 people.On September 29, an undersea earthquake caused a series of tsunamis in the South Pacific, destroying...