Environment

News Hour: More than 200 farming households have enrolled in an Index Based Flood Insurance (IBFI) product in Bihar, India. IBFI, which use satellite technology and modelling, was developed with the help of researchers from the...

News Hour: The first wave of monsoon flood in Assam starts receding as the rains stopped in the last 48 hours. However, it causes severe damages to north-eastern part of the State with over 70 casualties. Over...

News Hour: Oscar-nominated actor James Cromwell is reporting to jail at 4 p.m. yesterday in upstate New York after he was sentenced to a week behind bars for taking part in a nonviolent protest against a...

News Hour: The flood situation in Assam of northeast India slowly worsens as more places got inundated and increase the tally of casualty to 24 till Friday. Brahmaputra and Barak along with their tributaries are flowing...

News Hour: The death toll from heavy rains and flooding in southern Japan has risen to 15, media reported on Saturday, as rescuers continued work to bring out isolated survivors. Raging rivers overflowing with water and...

News Hour: Residents fled their houses in panic overnight on Friday as aftershocks hit the central Philippines a day after a 6.5-magnitude earthquake killed two people and injured at least 72 others, authorities said. Rescuers pulled...

News Hour: At least 15 people are missing after huge floods swept away houses in southern Japan, tearing up roads as roiling waters surged through villages, authorities said, after unprecedented rainfall. Meteorologists warned of worse to...

News Hour: Illegal fishing, logging and poaching are impacting two-thirds of the 57 natural World Heritage sites monitored by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) this year, putting some of the world’s most precious...

News Hour: A Mild earthquake jolted Sylhet in Bangladesh today. But, no casualty has been reported yet. The epicenter of the temblor that occurred at 11:27 am was in Assam of India, some 283 kilometers east...

News Hour: US President Donald Trump on Thursday strongly defended his decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord, declaring himself “proud” of the move. “In order to protect American jobs, companies, and workers, we’ve...