Environment

News Hour: A failed 2016 rainy season linked to the climate phenomenon La Niña, combined with exceptionally warm sea surface temperatures in the western Pacific and eastern Indian Oceans, have led to extreme drought in the...

News Hour: heavy downpours triggered another landslide in Bali resort island in central Indonesia on Saturday, bringing the total casualty of the disaster to 13 people with 5 others wounded, a senior official of Bali disaster...

News Hour: The government has set a plan to manufacture biodegradable jute made polyethylene bags soon under a project with a view to replacing environment-harming plastic polyethylene bags, reports BSS. State Minister for Textile and Jute...

News Hour: Dozens of people in Afghanistan and Pakistan were killed after heavy snow and avalanches hit over the weekend. In eastern Afghanistan, at least 50 people died and dozens more were missing on Sunday after...

News Hour: A fire in a South Korea shopping mall killed four and injured more than 40 others, authorities said on Sunday. Police suspect that sparks from a welding torch might have started the fire on...

News Hour: At least 14 people were killed when an avalanche hit Pakistan’s northwest Chitral district on Sunday morning, officials said. Chitral Scouts Commandant Colnol Nizamuddin Shah, the chief of the team taking part in the...

News Hour: Gale-force winds battered France’s southwestern Atlantic coast on Saturday, leaving more than quarter of million homes without power, the national electricity grid Enedis said, reports BSS. National weather agency Meteo France said winds reaching...

News Hour: A total of 39 people have been killed in fires during the week-long Spring Festival holiday, the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) said on Saturday. During the vacation, 13,796 fires broke out around the...

News Hour: Radiation levels inside a stricken reactor at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant have hit a record high capable of shutting down robots, in the latest challenge to efforts aimed at dismantling the disaster-hit facility. Radiation...

News Hour: The Paris 2024 Olympics bid committee is proposing a strong eco-friendly plan that will slash carbon emissions by more than half compared to the last two Games in London and Rio. Speaking to Reuters...