Environment

News Hour: Vietnam’s domestic airlines have announced to cancel numerous flights departing and arriving at the country’s northern and central airports on Friday due to Typhoon Dianmu, reports BSS. Dianmu, the third hitting Vietnam so far...

News Hour: Firefighters battled on Thursday to douse a series of wildfires fueled by high winds, scorching temperatures, and dry vegetation, which have forced tens of thousands of Californians to flee their homes, reports BSS. A...

News Hour: A 5.7-magnitude earthquake rattled popular tourist towns stretching across more than 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) of Australia’s northeastern coastline on Thursday, reports BSS. The quake hit at a depth of seven kilometres about 54...

News Hour: Louisiana faced epic flooding on Monday, with seven people killed and thousands evacuated to emergency shelters after waterways in the southern part of the state overflowed their banks, reports BSS. Some areas have received...

News Hour: During his first visit since his appointment, Minister Wharton, who oversees development aid in Africa, saw how the UK is helping some of the poorest and most vulnerable people in Northern Kenya cope with...

News Hour: A moderate 5.2 magnitude earthquake in Peru killed at least nine people and left 40 injured, crushing villagers under rubble and blocking roads, officials said on Monday. The quake knocked down about 50 homes...

News Hour: A magnitude 5.6 undersea earthquake struck Japan on Monday off the coast of Fukushima prefecture, though there were no immediate reports of damages, reports BSS. The quake struck at about 4:00 pm (0700 GMT)...

News Hour: Three of the world’s most eminent experts on the intersection of nature and human well-being were announced today as co-chairs of a landmark new global assessment commissioned by the 125 governments comprising the Intergovernmental...

News Hour: A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hits off the coast of New Caledonia on Friday in the tectonically active Pacific region, but there was no tsunami threat, seismologists said, reports BSS. The quake struck at a depth...

News Hour: the Brazilian environmental agency, IBAMA, has announced the licensing process to build the São Luiz do Tapajós (SLT), a giant dam planned for one of the last major free-flowing rivers in the Brazilian Amazon,...