From earthquakes to volcanic eruptions, floods to droughts, each year natural disasters affect millions of people around the ...

The death toll from severe floods and landslides across Asia has surpassed 1,700 as of Sunday, with hundreds still missing.

In April 1986, the world suffered its worst nuclear disaster to date when a reactor at the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine, ...

They suggest that this was all the fault of the powers that be. Listening to them one feels as if, had adequate precautions been taken, Cyclone Ditwah would have turned direction and gone elsewhere.

Activists said decades of deforestation — driven by mining, palm oil plantations and illegal logging — have stripped away ...

Regional experts warn that without rapid cuts in fossil-fuel emissions and serious investment in resilience – from restoring forests to enforcing planning rules – disasters like this year’s may become ...

Southeast Asia has been hit by unusually severe floods this year, with late storms killing more than 1,400 people and leaving ...

Sri Lankan authorities said they would need some £5 billion to rebuild homes, industries and roads destroyed by the cyclone, ...