SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands — An earthquake has struck in the western Pacific region near the U.S. territories of Guam [...]
LONDON, Jan 26 (AlertNet) – Picture this: a terrible drought forces you to abandon your meagre plot of farmland, so [...]
Flooding will be Britain’s biggest climate risk with almost five million people to be affected over the next 100 years, [...]
..The world has no chance of sealing an emissions cut deal unless companies lobby their governments for an accord, the [...]
Flesh-eating disease is the medical equivalent of being struck by lightning: it’s extremely rare and very tragic.
And the fact that [...]
The Japanese government’s worst-case scenario at the height of the nuclear crisis last year warned that tens of millions of [...]
Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Tuesday announced a 2.6-billion-dollar program to help victims of a record drought, including food and [...]
Petrol is already beyond the price range of many Africans while surging population levels should force governments in Asia to [...]
About 4,200 people have been evacuated from their homes on the New South Wales far north coast, after the same [...]
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – Thunderstorms pounded San Antonio, Austin and Dallas on Wednesday morning and moved into Houston, bringing the [...]
At least 85 dolphins have beached themselves in a shallow inlet of a US nature reserve at Cape Cod, officials [...]
..Rising oil prices and chilly economic times are prompting increasing numbers of Greeks to chop down trees for winter warmth, [...]
Magnitude-6.3 Earthquake hits Fiji area of South Pacific* SUVA, Fiji — A magnitude-6.3 earthquake has shaken the Pacific region south [...]
WELLINGTON — Two farmers were killed and more than 700 people evacuated as torrential rain flooded large parts of Fiji’s [...]
Emergency Management Queensland (EMQ) says torrential rain that has caused chaos around the state’s south-east on Tuesday is only going [...]
A leading earthquake research centre says the risk of a big quake hitting Tokyo within the next few years could [...]





