SANParks request that the public continue to be vigilant and report any fires or suspicious activity immediately.
Over 100 firefighters were dispatched on Wednesday to help contain a wildfire that started to spread across the mountain.
Experts labelled this eruption as the “worst-case scenario,” exacerbated by the failure of defences constructed after a previous eruption in December.
There were a total of 75 hikers in and around the crater of the volcano, with 12 people still missing.
The managing director of Working on Fire said that 2023 was “the year of the planet burning, both figuratively and literally”.
Shocking footage is making its way around social media, showing steam rising from the large gashes in roads and sidewalks.
On Monday, parts of Johannesburg were ravaged by an extreme hailstorm while a tornado threatened residents in Standerton in Mpumalanga.
It looks like a total hellscape. If this doesn’t make people realise climate catastrophe is happening now, then I don’t know what will.
Wildlife can be severely disrupted when icebergs crash into islands, particularly if the bergs become stranded on the seafloor encircling the remote landmasses.
Footage of the devastation left behind by the recent Cape storms has been flooding our feeds for the last few days, but as we count the costs of nature’s tantrum, likely and unlikely heroes are emerging from the deluge of bad news.
It is clear that this year has been our wettest in the last 10 years, but the Heritage Day weekend alone saw more rainfall than anything before in the province’s recent history.
The Western Cape was hammered by severe storms this long weekend, causing road closures, mudslides and stranding thousands of people.
Large parts of Europe resembles a post-apocalyptic movie as recent footage shows fires lapping at Italy’s Palermo’s international airport while two pilots were killed when their firefighting aeroplane lost control and crashed.
“The water is what saved us,” a helicopter pilot said in court last week, detailing how he and two of his passengers had escaped death by jumping into the ocean when a New Zealand volcano erupted four years ago.
Yes, just like a cockroach, lightning can use your plumbing as a conduit, and even just washing your hands can make you a perfect target for Thor’s bolts.
Besides our own firefighters working on the embers and flames, hundreds of other international firefighters are also in the area helping overwhelmed Canadians with the complex task of controlling the, frankly, uncontrolled blazes.
Flooding in Cape Town, an earthquake in Gauteng, and now a tornado in KwaZulu-Natal. It’s as if nature is trying to tell us something.
South African National Parks (SANParks) confirmed that the park’s infrastructure and natural vegetation had taken a knock, leading to dangerous conditions for hikers and trail runners.
“Can you f—ing believe what just happened to us?” said a Florida deputy to the motorist that he tried to save before they were both swept into a drain pipe under a massive highway.
Parts of the city are now racked with non-load-shedding related electricity supply issues as power plants become soaked, with a lack of running trains, and overall havoc on the roads as they become increasingly waterlogged.
“Eish, from a dead sleep to rock and roll,” someone in Johannesburg recalls of the 4,7 magnitude earthquake that hit the East Rand in Johannesburg on Sunday morning.
Deep wafts of wildfire smoke in Canada have been drifting around the region, swallowing whole cities in a thick, yellow haze like something from an apocalypse movie.
Ozzie science bro Karl Kruszelnicki argues that there’s actually nothing supernatural about the forbidden region.
That’s the alarming thing – as the climate crisis ramps up, we’re going to see more and more videos of terrifying tornadoes ripping into city after city.
Everyone has been freaking out about the massive flames licking at Table Mountain this morning, Wednesday, March 29.
A beloved CrossFit coach from Phoenix is now being honoured as a hero after he died saving his wife from drowning.
It is understood that the dam can typically contain an overflow of up to 115%, and as it stands, the dam is 120% full.
The greater Kruger National Park has been lashed by heavy rains since Friday, with rivers overflowing and roads being cut off by the surging water.
Yesterday (Monday), a fire raged on the mountain slopes along Boyes Drive in Lakeside.
The harsh lightning and thunderstorms began in the Mother City on Sunday night and continued into Monday, causing major floods and damage in some areas like Gordon’s Bay and Paarl.