A 7.4-magnitude earthquake tore through Colombia's coffee-growing heartland on Monday, killing at least 164 people and leveling roughly 1,600 buildings, and a new president barely three days into office now faces his first crisis. Rescue workers pulled a six-month-old baby and her mother from the wreckage of a collapsed building hours after the quake struck […] The post Colombia earthquake kills at least 164 as rescuers pull infant from rubble appeared first on American Almanac .
A 7.4-magnitude earthquake tore through Colombia's coffee-growing heartland on Monday, killing at least 164 people and leveling roughly 1,600 buildings, and a new president barely three days into office now faces his first crisis. Rescue workers pulled a six-month-old baby and her mother from the wreckage of a collapsed building hours after the quake struck early on August 10, 2026. The mother emerged covered in blood and dust. In Cali, Colombia's third-largest city, volunteers dug through concrete and rebar with sticks and bare hands while hospitals overflowed into the streets. In Pereira, the capital of Risaralda state, entire residential blocks lay in ruins. The earthquake, centered near the town of San Jose Del Palmar in the remote…Open
BERLIN (AP) — The heat waves roiling Western Europe this summer toppled an average temperature record for the June-July period set in 2022, according to the European climate agency Copernicus. The extreme heat began in May and has contributed to major wildfires, prolonged drought and new national temperature records across the region, as well as [...]
French authorities ordered nearly 4,000 people evacuated from Atlantic coast tourist sites as a massive wildfire west of Bordeaux, already four times the size of Paris, threatened to spread under a returning heat wave. Gironde regional officials issued the precautionary evacuation order Tuesday covering campsites, holiday villages, tourist residences, and leisure parks around the Lacanau […] The post France evacuates thousands as wildfires consume record swaths of southwestern Europe appeared first on American Almanac .
French authorities ordered nearly 4,000 people evacuated from Atlantic coast tourist sites as a massive wildfire west of Bordeaux, already four times the size of Paris, threatened to spread under a returning heat wave. Gironde regional officials issued the precautionary evacuation order Tuesday covering campsites, holiday villages, tourist residences, and leisure parks around the Lacanau resort area, including Lacanau Ocean and both shores of Lacanau lake. The move came after firefighters held the blaze in check overnight, beating back flare-ups near coastal dunes, but rising temperatures and falling humidity left crews exposed to conditions that could undo days of grueling progress. The Gironde fire has burned 420 square kilometers,…Open
A wildfire burning through the historic Fontainebleau forest south of Paris forced residential evacuations, shut down a section of a major highway, and disrupted rail service at one of the French capital's busiest train stations, the latest in a string of fires sweeping western Europe during a punishing summer heat wave. French President Emmanuel Macron […] The post Fontainebleau forest fire forces evacuations near Paris as wildfires spread across Europe appeared first on American Almanac .
A wildfire burning through the historic Fontainebleau forest south of Paris forced residential evacuations, shut down a section of a major highway, and disrupted rail service at one of the French capital's busiest train stations, the latest in a string of fires sweeping western Europe during a punishing summer heat wave. French President Emmanuel Macron said all necessary means were being deployed to fight the fire, which he described as one of "exceptional scale." Hundreds of firefighters and two water-dumping planes were sent to the forest, located roughly 70 kilometers, about 42 miles, from the center of Paris. As of Monday, the blaze remained uncontained. The fire is not an isolated event. Across France, Spain, and the United…Open