Tubewells in seven wards of Chittagong City Corporation are pumping water with arsenic contamination 10 times higher than the safe [...]
TOKYO (AP)—Much of Japan’s Pacific coast could be inundated by a tsunami more than 34 meters (112 feet) high if [...]
People in flood-ravaged Fiji have begun returning home after spending several days in evacuation centres.
The death toll from the floods [...]
Mexico was shaken Monday afternoon by a strong apparent aftershock from a powerful earthquake late last month.
Officials said there were [...]
A family of four has died under a landslide in Fiji, as forecasters predict lingering torrential rain in the flood-battered [...]
Leading scientists on Thursday called on the upcoming Rio Summit to grapple with environmental ills that they said pointed to [...]
Climate change is amplifying risks from drought, floods, storms and rising seas, threatening all countries but small island states, poor [...]
Lloyd’s of London insurance market on Wednesday posted its second-largest annual loss owing to record claims for catastrophes including Japan’s [...]
The Kazakhstan government and environmentalists Tuesday sounded the alarm over the declining numbers of endangered Caspian seals after 35 animals [...]
An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale has struck northeast Japan – the same region devastated by last year’s [...]
An exclusion zone has been put in place around a North Sea oil and gas well, where a plume of [...]
British tourists looking forward to taking in the spectacular tropical wildlife of the Florida Keys this summer may be in [...]
A magnitude-7.1 quake has hit central Chile, rattling buildings in the capital and triggering evacuations along the coast.
Residents in the [...]
A fishing boat lost during the Japanese tsunami disaster a year ago has turned up off Canada’s west coast.
The 65-metre [...]
Climate change has accelerated in the past decade, the UN weather agency said Friday, releasing data showing that 2001 to [...]
Authorities in Beijing say it will be at least two decades before they can get air pollution under control, after [...]





