Sri Lanka's Road Development Authority has re-opened all major roads after Cyclone Ditwah, and the Kandy - Colombo road is ...

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 ...

Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence ...

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

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 ...

A new study uncovers hidden chemical clues showing that fire played a bigger role in the Early Triassic than scientists once thought.

A UK judge ruled that BHP is strictly and fault-based liable under Brazilian law for the 2015 Fundão dam collapse that killed 19 people and devastated communities. The court allowed over 700,000 ...