Sri Lanka on Friday grappled with one of its worst disasters as Cyclone Ditwah wreaked havoc, causing floods and landslides ...

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The structural vulnerability of many Jamaican schools is linked to decades of under-resourcing, where the state has adopted ...

For most of last month, Taiwan was a patchwork of reds, implying there’s a direct link between roasting urban environments and mankind’s burning of fossil fuels. If its methodology is sound, the CSI ...

The Paulatuk Hunters and Trappers Committee and Fisheries and Oceans Canada implanted acoustic tags in nearly 40 Arctic char ...

To be classified as a derecho, a windstorm must have winds of at least 58 mph, some gusts over 75 mph and a wind damage path ...

The 1970s were an explosion of creativity and freedom, a time when fashion and music truly defined cultural expression, and ...

The richer countries have largely decided to stay where they are and throw or promise to throw money at the problem. There is ...

In the early hours of November 28, a family in Seremban faced a terrifying ordeal when a landslide struck their home, burying part of it and forcing them to seek temporary shelter. This incident ...

After being elected in a landslide last year, Britain’s Labour Party government delivered a budget it billed as a one-off ...

LONDON (AP) — Following weeks of speculation, Britain's unpopular Labour government will deliver its second budget later Wednesday since it returned to power in a landslide election victory in July ...

Their whole life, producer Hannah Chinn has known about the Big One: a massive earthquake forecasted to hit the West Coast. Scientists say it'll destroy buildings, collapse bridges, flood coastal ...