A man has been hailed as a hero after he saved six people when their boat sank in a river but then tragically drowned himself. Ivan Willian Coelho, 36, and six others were travelling by boat on a river near the community of Lontra da Pedreira in a rural part…
A four-year-old Syrian girl who left Lebanon for Europe on a fishing boat with 60 other migrants died of thirst after no ship or country came to their aid. Loujin Ahmed Nasif had boarded the boat with her mother and one-year-old sister in their attempt to seek a better life…
Environmental experts have warned of a poisoning disaster after thousands of dead fish were found in a Polish river. Shocking images of fish floating on the surface of the Oder River have triggered an investigation into the cause of the wildlife disaster. The Provincial Environmental Protection Inspectorate in the city…
A young mountaineer took this grinning selfie and sent it to his family moments before he was killed in an avalanche. The deadly ice, snow and rock slide was triggered by the collapse of a glacier on Marmolada, a mountain in north-eastern Italy, on Sunday, 3rd July. The disaster left…
A heroic rescue dog who travelled to some of the world's worst disaster zones and saved an estimated 53 lives has been diagnosed with a tumour after going into retirement. Frida specialised in helping to save the lives of people buried under the rubble of collapsed buildings in earthquakes and…
A survivor of the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster in 2012 has received nearly GBP 80,000 in compensation for ‘post-shipwreck stress’. The Costa Concordia cruise ship struck an underwater rock, capsized, and sank off Giglio Island near the coast of Tuscany on 13th January 2012. The Court of Genoa has…
A disaster relief worker has adopted the cat whose life he saved after it was knocked unconscious by smoke and ash from the ongoing Cumbre Vieja volcanic eruption. Video footage shows how Corporal Juan Carlos Nunez of the Military Emergencies Unit, a branch of the Spanish Armed Forces, performed mouth-to-mouth…
This footage shows the shocking levels of pollution in the Mar Menor saltwater lagoon in southern Spain that the government has allegedly been ignoring for the past five years. Menor Mar has been turned into a soup of eutrophication with dead fish littering its banks and algae blooms blocking the…
Remarkable research over the last four years to create the first ever 'map' of the squid brain could have far-reaching consequences for technologies ranging from computer vision and soft robotics through to disaster relief and "swarm robotics". Newsflash has interviewed one of the scientists who has been using MRI technology…
This Chernobyl disaster survivor who was forced to work right next to the nuclear reactor during the clean-up has shared his story in the wake of the acclaimed TV show starring Brit actor Jared Harris. Oleksandr Zahorodnyuk, who has see eight of his 30 colleagues die since the Chernobyl disaster…