Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
Sudanese medics say at least 23 people have been killed in heavy flooding in the past three weeks. The Red Crescent Society said on Monday that the floods have injured at least 61 others since July 23. It says more than 8 900 families have been left homeless. The Red …
Tropical Storm Bebinca formed quickly in the northern part of the South China Sea. Warnings were in effect as NASA's Aqua satellite analyzed the storm located off the coast of southern China near Hainan Island and found powerful storms capable of dropping heavy rainfall. Tropical Storm Bebinca formed quickly in …
HARBIN, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Floods triggered by heavy rain have resulted in direct economic losses of over 4 billion yuan (580 million U.S. dollars) in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, local authorities said Tuesday. The province has seen 2.5 times more precipitation since mid-July than the amount during the same …
A total of 24 people have been injured in two 5.0-magnitude earthquakes that jolted southwest China's Yunnan Province in the early hours of Monday and Tuesday seperately, local authorities said. The epicenter of the latest quake, with a depth of 6 km, was monitored in Sijie Township, Tonghai County, at …
The evacuation of people from Vanuatu's volcanic Ambae island to the islands of Maewo and Santo is now completed after the Vanuatu government asked Ambae's people to have a compulsory evacuation. According to Vanuatu's Daily Post newspaper website, Jesse Benjamin, director general of the Ministry of Climate Change and Natural …
Gaborone — Government will use a total of P856 million in different measures adopted to mitigate the effects of arable drought recently declared for the year 2018/19 by President Mokgweetsi Masisi. According to a press release from the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, the relief and special assistance …
Southern African Development Community farmers have been advised not to sell their food stocks harvested last season as the region expects an extended dry spell this coming rainy season. SADC director for food, agriculture and natural resources, Domingos Gove, made these remarks on Saturday during a media briefing on the …
China evacuated more than 200,000 people as a typhoon made landfall on its eastern coast late on Sunday, state media said. Sponsored A pedestrian crossing a road holds an umbrella against wind brought by Typhoon Yagi, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China August 13, 2018. Zhejiang Daily via REUTERS Typhoon Yagi …
Indonesia’s holiday island of Lombok suffered damage running into more than 5 trillion rupiah (268.61 million pounds)from last week’s huge earthquake, authorities said on Monday, as the death toll climbed to more than 430. More than 350,000 people fled their homes after the 6.9-magnitude quake to shelter in government-provided tents …
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck on Sunday near the native Alaskan village of Kaktovik and part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge where the Trump administration plans to allow oil drilling, but no injuries or damage were reported. The temblor, which occurred just before 7 a.m. (1500 GMT), was the …
Afghanistan, where a lack of snow and rain in recent months has badly hit the harvest, sparking warnings of severe food shortages After his wheat crop failed and wells dried up, Ghulam Abbas sold his animals and joined thousands of other farmers migrating to cities as Afghanistan's worst drought in …
Three teams of NDRF have been deployed in Alappuzha, Ernakulam and Kozhikode while assistance has been sought from the Army, Air Force, Coast Guard, NDRF and the Military Intelligence. IDUKKI: If Kerala was at the receiving end of angry rains on Thursday, triggering landslides and flash floods snuffing out 26 …
A massive landslide damaged eight houses at Kand village, about 20 km from Dharamsala, on Wednesday night. The villagers have been given shelter at the Mahila Mandal Bhawan and the village community hall. The landslide has brought down a significant portion of the hill and washed away a road and …
This summer's heatwave and wildfires across Sweden have raised the environment to the second most important issue for voters ahead of a general election in September, a poll by Demoskop showed on Thursday. Temperatures in Sweden were between three and five degrees Celsius higher than normal in July and in …
A magnitude 6.2 aftershock rocked Indonesia's Lombok on Thursday, sparking fresh panic on the tropical tourist island as the official death toll from a powerful earthquake four days earlier almost doubled to 259. Reuters witnesses reporting on the aftermath of Sunday's quake in the north of the island said buildings …
A German man in his 70s, who was helping supervise children at a campsite in south-east France, was missing on Thursday after being swept away by floodwaters, police said. The 75-year-old man was accompanying a group of around 100 German children who were evacuated from a campsite in Saint-Julien-de-Peyrolas, some …
Twenty-two people are dead and thousands have been left homeless in Niger after torrential rains caused heavy flooding, authorities said. "As of August 6, 49,845 people have been affected... and unfortunately we have recorded 22 deaths," Niger's minister for humanitarian action, Laouan Magadji, told public television late last night. The …
Rabat – A violent storm hit Ourika Valley, 90 kilometers from Marrakech, causing floods and damage to many merchants and restaurateurs. According to local media, the storm hit Monday night, August 6, causing the Ourika river to overflow, instantly creating landslides in the village of Sti Fadma and other areas. …
Australia’s Westpac Banking Corp said on Thursday it would disburse A$100 million ($74.2 million) in cheap loans to farmers as a record dry spell hits parts of the nation, while the country’s lenders fight to regain public trust amidst an ongoing misconduct inquiry. The drought in Australia’s east, one of …
The death toll from a devastating earthquake on the Indonesian island of Lombok has risen above 160, an official said today, as authorities urgently appealed for medicine, food and clean water for some 156,000 people displaced by the disaster. Many frightened villagers are staying under tents or tarpaulins dotted along …
