Part of Thailand's main rice growing region is under severe economic and environmental threat from climate change which must
Oil-trading company Trafigura has agreed to pay 30 million pounds to victims of toxic waste dumped in Ivory Coast
Strong earthquake jolts western Philippines Seismologists say a strong offshore earthquake has rocked the western Philippines and was felt in
Long vilified as sorcerers, Kenya's Nganyi rainmakers -- with meteorological equipment consisting of trees, pots and herbs -- are
Two-thirds of the world's major deltas, home to nearly half a billion people, are caught in the scissors of
Turkey has agreed to up the flow of water along the Euphrates river to Iraq for a month, Baghdad
Five years ago, James Lovelock's "The Revenge of Gaia" issued a terrifying warning: if humankind didn't radically curtail greenhouse-gas
Ten people were hurt when a freak twister hit parts of the capital of Cyprus on Friday, felling trees,
White sand and crystal clear water that laps around the Maldives draw thousands to the islands every year, but
The Arctic's sea ice pack thawed to its third-lowest summer level on record, up slightly from the seasonal melt