Environment

Japan’s nuclear watchdog Wednesday gave a formal green light to the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to restart two reactors, the first since the 2011 atomic crisis. The Nuclear Regulation Authority handed its approval...

Indonesia’s Bali volcano of Mount Agung spewed thick smoke and ashes billowing 2.5 kilometer into the air on Sunday morning, following similar event that occurred on Saturday at almost the same time. The Sunday’s eruption took...

The Philippines is battered by about 20 typhoons a year and warnings are routinely issued, but the level of destruction wreaked by tropical storm Tembin on the southern island of Mindanao from late on Friday came...

One person was taken to hospital and eight were treated at the scene for injuries. The zoo said an aardvark, called Misha, had died in the fire and that four meerkats were unaccounted for London Zoo...

Tembin, with winds of up to 80km/h (50 mph), has now passed across Mindanao and is heading towards the southern tip of Palawan before moving further west. The Philippines suffers regularly from deadly tropical storms, although...

BRAC and the German Development Bank (KfW) on behalf of the German Government signed two agreements to set up a fund on climate change adaptation and climate-induced migration. The project called ‘Climate bridge fund’ has been...

Firefighters in California on Wednesday said the massive Thomas wildfire about the size of sprawling Los Angeles was about 60 percent contained but they warned strong winds were still forecast. Firefighters took advantage of weaker winds...

The deaths were reported in the small island province of Biliran, a day after the storm pounded the east of the archipelago nation. Landslides triggered by Tropical Storm Kai-Tak have killed 26 people and 23 more...

French President Emmanuel Macron will meet with world leaders on Tuesday, two years to the day since 195 nations adopted the climate-rescue Paris Agreement this time to talk about money. Without trillions of dollars of investment...

The Paris climate summit next week offers a chance for concrete advances in the fight against global warming, even without the support of President Donald Trump, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said. “What makes this...