Category: Asia

Warmer temperatures in China to reduce crop yields

With the climate set to get warmer from greenhouse gases, Chinese scientists predicted on Thursday that freshwater for agriculture

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Response to Pakistan flood disaster ‘pitifully slow’

Delegates at a United Nations conference in Melbourne have called for the international community to do more to help

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Sinabung eruption forces Indonesians into refugee camps

Thousands of individuals and families fleeing the Mount Sinabung eruption in Indonesia now face the threat of disease as

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Beaches In India’s Goa Hit By Mystery Oil Slick

A clean-up operation was under way in Goa on Tuesday after some beaches in the Indian resort state were

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200 flights cancelled as typhoon nears Japan

Japan cancelled more than 200 flights and many ferry services to its southern islands today as a typhoon churned

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Volcano erupts in Indonesia

Thousands of Indonesians were evacuated from the slopes of a volcano on Sunday after it erupted for the first

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Russian seed bank in danger of being sold

Video Report: There is alarm over plans to sell off Russia's seed bank. (more…)

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Earthquake rattles Japan

TOKYO---A 5.4-magnitude earthquake struck near the west coast of Japan early Friday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. The

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Food prices soar in Russia after drought

Prices of basic foodstuffs like buckwheat and flour have soared in Russia over the past month as the effects

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Lightning kills 25 in India

NEW DELHI: At least 25 people were killed by lightning in the eastern Indian states of Bihar and Jharkhand,

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