Indonesia’s environment ministry on Dec. 6 suspended private sector activity in a crucial high conservation value rainforest ...

Several weather disasters in US history have killed over 1,000 people. The largest was precisely 125 years ago, when a ...

Looking at the weather map on his computer and seeing three simultaneous tropical storms forming across Asia in late November, climatologist Fredolin Tangang’s first thoughts drifted to the 2004 ...

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

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

The police watchdog is publishing a significant report on the actions of officers before, during and after the 1989 ...

Authorities in Sri Lanka are racing against time to rescue hundreds of missing people as death toll from rain and flooding caused by Cyclone Ditwah rose to 366 in one of the worst disasters the island ...

Mould found at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster appears to be feeding off the radiation. Could we use it to shield ...

The next global volcanic disaster is more likely to come from volcanoes that appear dormant and are barely monitored than ...

From the New York City plane crash that happened shortly after 9/11 to the Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision in India, these aviation accidents shocked and horrified the world. Ever since the Wright ...