Environment

News Hour: British Airways customers flying from Gatwick this week had to do a double-take at what appeared to be an alligator, more at home in the fresh water of Florida rather than a UK airport,...

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $150 million dollar loan for a comprehensive project to restore degraded ecosystems and improve water resource management in the flood-prone and polluted Qihe River Basin, which...

News Hour: Heavy rain unleashed a landslide on Friday that killed one person and left 20 others missing in China, state media said. The landslide hit early morning and buried 29 people in the village of Pianpo,...

News Hour: As part of the USAID-funded Ha Long-Cat Ba Alliance (HLCBA), a clean-up day was organized by IUCN and Au Co Cruises on 14th of June in Ha Long Bay with over 100 volunteers from...

News Hour: IOM and the National Agriculture Research Institute (NARI), with support from the US, EU, and the Australian Governments, have launched a seed distribution programme across drought-hit areas of Papua New Guinea (PNG), benefiting almost...

News Hour: Award-winning global movie star and Nepal earthquake survivor Michelle Yeoh travelled back to Kathmandu last week as a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Goodwill Ambassador. She visited the capital and surrounding villages and exchanged...

News Hour: On 28 June 2016, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in China, as part of the Sharing and Learning on Community Based Disaster Management in Asia Project (CBDM Asia Phase II), co-hosted an Experience...

News Hour: The World Bank Group today signed an agreement with the International Solar Alliance (ISA), consisting of 121 countries led by India, to collaborate on increasing solar energy use around the world, with the goal...

News Hour: The death toll from flooding in the US state of West Virginia rose to 24 on Saturday, as President Barack Obama declared a major disaster, releasing federal aid for some of the hardest-hit areas,...

News Hour: Save the Children is assessing how best to help the thousands of children impacted by the powerful storms that hit West Virginia on Thursday night, causing widespread flooding and destruction, power outages and the...