Last August, a dust storm swept across northern Utah, crossed the Great Salt Lake, and kept going, carrying toxic sediment more than 50 miles through heavily populated areas. Buildings disappeared into a brown haze. Cars were coated in a fine, pale film. Parents kept children inside. Health officials issued advisories about toxic particles now suspended in the air above one of America’s fastest-growing metropolitan areas.
Ebola is racing through the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo faster than health workers can respond, the World Health Organisation has warned, as suspected deaths passed 220.
“At the moment, the epidemic is outpacing us,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the UN agency, said before he arrived in the Congo to oversee the response.
Congolese authorities say that suspected Ebola cases have now passed 900 in the ongoing outbreak in the east of the country.
The Congolese ministry of communication, in a post on X on Sunday, said there were 904 suspected cases and 119 suspected deaths.
Authorities had previously announced more than 700 suspected Ebola cases, and more than 170 suspected deaths, mostly in Ituri province, where the outbreak is centred.
A tour guide company that organized the trip for a large group of backcountry skiers who went missing after an avalanche near Lake Tahoe has broken its silence.
Fifteen people are believed to have been hit by the terrifying slide on Tuesday morning as snow battered the region. Six were known to have survived, while nine remain unaccounted for.
Mountain rescue launched a huge operation to find them on skis and snowcats, but has been struggling against horrific conditions that saw the entire region cut off.
WTF?
🚨 Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy 🇮🇹
This video is truly shocking
Not so much because of the avalanche, but because of the complete lack of survival instinct shown by the people
Chilling pic.twitter.com/ysHTbhDyjb
— Mambo Italiano (@mamboitaliano__) February 17, 2026
US mostly dodged disaster this time. But what if Net Zero mandates aren’t adjusted or ended?
Winter Storm Fern (January 23-27) dumped heavy snow and ice on more than 240 million Americans across 40 states and 2,300 miles, beginning in Arizona and wrapping up in Maine.
Scores died, including 20 in New York City, where Mayor Zohran Mamdani refused to close homeless camps or compel “unhoused residents” to move indoors, instead letting them rely on the “warmth of collectivism.”
Still coming down. Streets are virtually deserted.
Dundas is a main route and will be relatively snow free tomorrow. The side streets will be a nightmare.
Update: Snowfall amounts up to 60 cm in parts of the GTHA
The view from here. I ran a quick errand to the grocery store at about 1 PM, this photo was taken about 1:45 PM it is the heaviest fall so far.
Will we get 40 50 cm? Who knows.
Update: Winter storm set to dump up to 50 cm of snow across Toronto, GTA
VICTORIA – A British Columbia government report foresees more than 3,400 fatalities and more than 10,000 injuries if an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 strikes off Vancouver Island.
The scenario of such a “megathrust” quake also describes costs of $128 billion, the destruction of 18,000 buildings and extensive damage to 10,000.
The analysis is part of the B.C. disaster and climate risk assessment, dated October 2025, and says such a quake is “one of the more likely earthquake scenarios in B.C.”
A canoe carrying British tourists was capsized and trampled by an elephant in a crocodile-filled river in Botswana.
The bull elephant charged at several canoes which were on a wildlife safari in the Okavango Delta on Saturday. It was believed to have been protecting its young after the guides steering the canoes misjudged how close they could get.
British & US tourists cheat death in miraculous escape from elephant reminding them whose turf it is
A furious elephant, angered by tourists getting too close to calves, charged & tipped canoes into crocodile-infested waters
Lucky they left Botswana with only wounded egos pic.twitter.com/4h1jwZhdv7
— RT (@RT_com) September 29, 2025
This happened at the Fullerton Hotel Ocean Park in Hong Kong a couple hours ago. I have never seen anything like this before.
I was up at 4 am taping my windows because water was just pouring in…
Ragasa is indeed a super Typhoon … pic.twitter.com/O59FJbGLsE
— Eric Yeung (@KingKong9888) September 24, 2025
A viral video from Hong Kong shows a family swept by a giant wave during Super Typhoon Ragasa
The child’s scream — 'Help!' — has fueled public anger pic.twitter.com/HVi5Kgo4r0
— RT (@RT_com) September 24, 2025
Super Typhoon Ragasa is expected to make landfall in China after bringing torrential rain and damaging winds to parts of Taiwan and the Philippines.
With evacuations underway, several schools and businesses were closed, and hundreds of flights were canceled in Hong Kong ahead of… pic.twitter.com/B1al5hosGo
— AccuWeather (@accuweather) September 24, 2025
Amber Vigh had taken the usual precautions when bringing her nine-year-old son, Carter, to summer camp in July 2023. There were no fires near their home in British Columbia, Canada. Her air quality app showed low levels of pollution. She could not smell any smoke.
Carter, a music-loving Lego enthusiast who had asthma, brought along his smiling shark tooth-patterned emergency kit that held an inhaler, allergy pill and EpiPen. When smoke did roll in from the north, Vigh took him indoors.
Wow our forests are a mass murderer!
The town is a stronghold of the Jihadi Abdelwahid rebels.
A landslide in Sudan’s western Darfur flattened the mountain village of Tarasin, with as many as 1,000 people feared dead.
Triggered by days of heavy rain, only one person is believed to have survived. Al Jazeera’s @Md_Vall explains what we know so far. pic.twitter.com/vdODLQR3p0
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) September 2, 2025
Afghanistan. A very awful Islamic country.
At 1,000 people were killed in Afghanistan following a devastating earthquake pic.twitter.com/Q0xrvI9Fa0
— New York Post (@nypost) September 2, 2025
Stay out of the woods. No hiking. No fishing. No camping. Don’t ride your ATV. These were the messages this past summer in Atlantic Canada, as provinces dealt with high temperatures and dry conditions.
But those restrictions caused friction in the region — and across Canada — which Eric Kennedy says shouldn’t be a surprise.
I’m a little surprised the CBC didn’t go all Covid enforcer on this.
A Crack Beneath the Rug
Canada’s reputation for unfailing politeness is like that neighbor you trust completely, the one you’d invite over to watch the game and have a beer, and you’d feel confident they wouldn’t take off with your favorite beer stein.
That same neighbor might harbor a secret, even him, that he might have a crack beneath his basement. Unseen, that is, until it opens up. That crack doesn’t disrespect your hospitality; it simply IS.
