Disaster

Two people have been killed in a powerful typhoon that battered Japan over the weekend, officials said Monday, as the storm’s aftermath brought travel chaos to Tokyo’s morning commute. By Monday morning, Typhoon Trami had cleared...

A powerful typhoon lashed Japan’s mainland on Sunday after injuring dozens on outlying islands, bringing transport grinding to a halt and triggering warnings of fierce winds, torrential rain, landslides and floods. Typhoon Trami has already snarled...

Nearly half of South Asia’s population, including more than three-quarters of Bangladesh’s people, is at risk of declining living standards due to rising temperature and erratic rainfall caused by climate change, says a new World Bank...

The death toll from the earthquake and tsunami on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi jumped to 384 on Saturday, authorities said, with many of those killed swept away by giant waves as they played on the...

The death toll from a monsoon landslide in the central Philippines has risen to 22, officials said Friday, as rescuers dug through the night in a frantic search for survivors of the latest tragedy in the...

The coastal city of Wilmington, North Carolina, has been cut off from the rest of the state because of heavy floods following Hurricane Florence. Officials say all roads in and out are now impassable and have...

Typhoon Mangkhut is lashing China’s most populous province, bringing winds of up to 100 mph (162 kph). Guangdong is on its highest alert for the storm, which also hit Hong Kong, where it swayed skyscrapers and...

Hurricane Florence has made landfall on the US East Coast, bringing with it winds, heavy rains and warnings of “catastrophic” floods. The centre of the storm struck Wrightsville Beach in North Carolina, with gales of up...

Coastal North Carolina felt the first bite of Hurricane Florence on Thursday as winds began to rise, a prelude to the slow-moving tempest that forecasters warned would cause catastrophic flooding across a wide swath of the...

A mild earthquake shook Dhaka city in Bangladesh today. Measuring 5.6 on the Richter Scale, the tremor was felt around 10:50 AM. The epicenter of the quake was in Saptagram, Assam, India, 293 kilometers north off...