Environment

News Hour: Australia’s most populous state made an embarrassing backflip on Tuesday on its plan to ban greyhound racing after sustained industry and public pressure, admitting it “got it wrong”. New South Wales Premier Mike Baird...

News Hour: Eight people have been killed after a series of unexplained building collapses in eastern China and there are fears the death toll could rise as rescuers searched through the rubble. Four buildings caved in...

News Hour: Hurricane Matthew lashed the southeastern US coast with driving wind and rain on Friday, flooding streets with ocean water, leaving more than a million people without power and claiming four lives. Millions of Americans...

News Hour: The Haitian authorities have postponed presidential and legislative elections originally set for Sunday because of the havoc caused by Hurricane Matthew, election officials said on Wednesday. The impoverished Caribbean nation’s last elections, in 2015,...

News Hour: South Korea cleaned up on Thursday after Typhoon Chaba lashed its southern coast with powerful winds and heavy rains that triggered flash floods and left six people dead and four missing. The violent storm...

News Hour: As powerful Hurricane Matthew barrels toward Haiti, CARE is preparing to respond to this potentially devastating storm with clean drinking water, food assistance and emergency supplies such as tarps for shelter, blankets and hygiene...

News Hour: Hurricane Matthew began pounding Cuba on late Tuesday, but residents of the communist island were largely calm, highly prepared after weathering previous storms. Deserted roads and unlit street lamps felt anything but normal, however,...

News Hour: Oct 4 Vienna’s Schoenbrunn Zoo has picked a name for a female panda and is asking animal lovers to help it choose one for her male twin. Giant Panda Yang Yang gave birth to...

News Hour: The Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Ertharin Cousin, has arrived in Madagascar for a three-day visit, as the country comes to grips with the devastating impact of three years...

News Hour: Hurricane Matthew powered toward densely populated Jamaica and Haiti on Sunday, unleashing winds that could fell homes and power lines and torrential rain that may trigger potentially deadly landslides and floods. As the Caribbean’s...