The World Seed Bank on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, which has existed for exactly ten years on Monday, will receive a new entrance. It should better protect the approximately one million seeds that are now there.
Wreckage pieces of a Sunday crashed Iranian plane have finally been traced in the inaccessible and snowy Zagros Mountains in southern Iran.
At least seventeen people were killed in the capital of Mozambique because a 15-meter high waste mountain collapsed. That was a result of the heavy rainfall. According to the authorities, seven cottages were buried by the sliding mess.
The Sinabung volcano on the Indonesian island of Sumatra erupted and spits five kilometers of clouds in the air. Also hot lava flows from the slopes since the eruption of the mountain Monday. According to the authorities there are no reports of victims.
A 3-year-old toddler was frozen to death on Friday after a kindergarten teacher lost sight of the girl after the playtime. The girl was found behind a large mountain of snow after a search.
An Algerian jeweler was arrested in Turkey because he tried to smuggle 290 banknotes worth € 144,200 in his gut.
Without oxygen and without sherpa's the over 8100 meters high mountain Nanga Parbat: the French Elisabeth Revols is the only woman ever succeeded. Still, the climber looks back on a hellish descent, leaving her partner behind for death. He has never returned. Elisabeth, too, was badly battered from the very dangerous mountain by rescue workers.
Two British winter sportsmen were killed in the French Alps after falling hundreds of meters down. The two 25-year-olds probably slipped when they were skiing off-piste in Chamonix, near Mont Blanc. That reports the BBC.
Rescue workers have managed to save a French alpinist in the Pakistani Himalayas from an altitude of 7400 meters. She and her Polish partner had entered the mountain Nanga Parbat, which is known to be very dangerous.
The Philippines are preparing for an emergency that can last three months in areas around the Mayon volcano, which is erupting. As a result, 81,000 people have already been evacuated and the emergency reception locations have been overcrowded, reports the disaster agency.
Losing 38 pounds in six months. That was the 39-year-old Jeremiah Peterson from Missoula, located in the American state of Montana. Reason: because he wants to be a better father for his children.
For nine days he was alone in a small hut, but in the end a 44-year-old winter sportsman from Berlin was saved from an Austrian mountain. The man had gone up the mountain on Monday, January 15, but was surprised by a blizzard. Then he could not get off, because he feared avalanches.
Google researchers have pulled their hair out of the head, but now they finally know why telephones in the Indies go massively: the thousands of 'good morning' images that Indians send to each other every day.
A hotel in the north of Italy has been evacuated after an avalanche in the neighborhood. Approximately 75 tourists and a few residents were flown with helicopters from Graun im Vinschgau in South Tyrol, according to the Italian news agency ANSA.
US President Donald Trump is meeting with Theresa May next week. He speaks to the British Prime Minister in Davos. The annual World Economic Forum is in the Swiss mountain resort.
It is also a stormy day in Germany. The weather service warns of wind gusts up to 115 kilometers per hour. In the Harz, the northern low mountain range, that can reach up to 160 kilometers per hour. Here and there schools remain closed.
The rape of a very young girl, and the murder that followed, led to riots in Pakistan where two protesters were killed. That means hospital sources against the Pakistani newspaper Dawn. On video footage you can see how someone shoots protesters. Two others were injured.
Not only in Zermatt are tourists trapped due to extreme snowfall and avalanche danger. Elsewhere in the mountain canton of Wallis, in the town of Saas-Fee, another 2,000 winter sports enthusiasts are stuck.
The Swiss village of Zermatt is isolated from the outside world. Due to avalanche danger, the authorities have closed the motorways, train connections, ski slopes and hiking trails in the vicinity of the small town near the Matterhorn mountain.
The Burj Khalifa in Dubai is the highest building in the world at 828 meters. But that does not take long. Project developers have concrete plans ready for a building that will look down on it. That new living giant could soon accommodate no fewer than 470,000 residents. That is 120,000 more than for example living in the municipality of Utrecht.
A 22-year-old British snowboarder who was reported missing on Tuesday was found dead on Friday evening. According to the police, he is probably lost on his way home after a night out.
An avalanche has certainly claimed a life in Austria. A second man is still being sought and a search for possible missing persons is also being carried out at another location in the mountains.
A 43-year-old Czech died on Thursday because he ended up under an avalanche. Everywhere in the Alps it is chaos due to heavy snowfall. 'Now that the rain is falling, the snow is becoming heavier and it is going to slide from all sides', says Dutchman Hans ter Braak from the Austrian town of Mittelberg, where safety measures are being tightened up.
In Australia, a seaplane with six people on board was crashed into a river. The rescue services are searching with man and power for survivors. It is suspected that the device has sunk.
People who want to climb Mount Everest and other high mountains in Nepal are no longer allowed to go up on their own. Nepal has decided to reduce the number of accidents among mountaineers. Since 1920, at least two hundred people have died on Mount Everest.
Three people died in three different snow avalanches in the Alps last weekend. The Swiss police announced this on Monday.
An international research group dealing with North Korea has raised the alarm about the lame and downright dangerous state of the nuclear facilities in the country. According to '38 North 'it is a miracle that no disastrous nuclear disaster has taken place yet.
The Swiss mountain village of Stoos can be reached from Sunday via the steepest railway in the world. In some places the train has to take a slope of 47.7 degrees.
China has strongly criticized neighboring India for a drone that has recently crashed. According to the Chinese army the machine crashed on Chinese territory.
Indonesian aviation authorities warn of danger around Bali where the volcano Agung erupted. The volcano has meanwhile spewed out a plume of smoke with ash and steam of six kilometers.
