Disaster

More than 40 people are still missing after the overnight flash floods brought on by torrential rain in central Afghanistan claimed the lives of 26, according to officials. A total of 31 people have died nationally...

Authorities in India’s Maharashtra state said that at least 10 people were murdered after a landslide brought on by heavy rains plowed through their village and that many more were feared to be trapped. In the...

Government data revealed on Saturday that Canadian wildfires have burnt more than 10 million hectares (24.7 million acres) this year, a record-breaking total that has surpassed scientists’ most gloomy estimates. According to official statistics from the...

According to officials, seven people have died and three are still missing after South Korea was inundated by severe rains on Saturday. A dam overflow forced hundreds of residents to leave their homes. Counties around the...

Authorities said Monday that one person was killed and three others were missing as a result of landslides in southwestern Japan, where the nation’s weather agency had issued a “heaviest rain ever” warning. According to the...

Heavy rains and landslides have killed at least ten people in Abidjan, according to Ivory Coast officials. According to the military’s firefighting brigade GSPM, the toll was tentative as of Friday. “We recorded 10 deaths, nine...

Floods and landslides caused by monsoon rains that have pummeled Pakistan since last month have killed at least 50 people, including eight children, officials said Friday. Every year, the summer monsoon brings 70-80 percent of South...

Despite global energy concerns fueled by Russia’s war in Ukraine, the Netherlands announced Friday that it would halt production at Europe’s largest gas field on October 1 due to years of earthquakes. Wells at the enormous...

According to state media, China has verified that 53 people were murdered when a coal mine partially collapsed in the northern Inner Mongolia area in February. At the open-pit mine in the isolated Alxa League, a...

Authorities in eastern Nepal said Sunday that many landslides and flooding brought on by the monsoon season had left 28 people missing and two people dead. On Saturday night, a local official said that a worker...