Thousands ordered to flee homes as Indonesian volcano eruption sparks tsunami warning
Thousands of people have been told to leave their homes after an Indonesian mountain erupted, sending ash thousands of feet high. Ruang mountain, a 725m volcano on the northern side of Sulawesi island, has erupted at least five times in 24 hours, according to Indonesia’s Centre for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation. Authorities are concerned […]
US bird flu outbreak ‘wiping out everything in numbers we’ve never seen before’, scientists warn
Warnings over the spread of bird flu come after the World Health Organization said people should not assume the risk to humans will always remain low. Countries have suffered huge numbers of bird deaths since an outbreak of H5N1 began in late 2021, and it has spread to mammals. An outbreak of bird flu spreading […]
