Disaster

Emergency workers in Myanmar rescued a woman on Tuesday who had been trapped for more than 90 hours under the rubble of a building after a devastating earthquake that has killed at least 2,700 people. The...

During Eid celebrations, a huge fire that loomed over residential areas Tuesday close to Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, forced residents from their houses. According to a statement from Selangor state fire officials, seven occupants...

On Tuesday, Myanmar will observe a minute of silence in remembrance of the victims of a devastating earthquake that has destroyed buildings as far away as Bangkok and killed over 2,000 people. Many people in Myanmar...

Japanese authorities issued a mid-level warning Sunday for a volcano in the southwestern Kyushu region, telling people not to approach and that an eruption “may occur”. There was, however, no evacuation order for local residents near...

A powerful earthquake has killed more than 1,000 people in war-torn Myanmar and neighbouring Thailand and caused widespread damage. Here is what we know about relief efforts: China China sent an 82-person team of rescuers to...

Japan partially lifted wildfire evacuation orders on Friday after rain helped stop the country’s worst blaze in more than half a century from spreading. The fire had raged in the mountains around the northern city of Ofunato for over...

As President Donald Trump cuts foreign and environmental funding, the United States on Tuesday stopped measuring pollution at its embassies, which had been a crucial source of information, particularly in Beijing. “Budget constraints” were the excuse...

On Tuesday, a densely populated area of Australia’s east coast braced itself for what might be the first tropical cyclone to hit the area in half a century. Tropical Cyclone About 550 kilometers (340 miles) east...

As over 4,600 residents are still under an evacuation advisory, officials announced Monday that almost 1,700 firemen are fighting Japan’s largest forest fire in thirty years. Following last year’s hottest summer on record in Japan and...

Japan was battling its largest wildfire in more than three decades on Saturday, one of several blazes that have killed one person and forced the evacuation of more than a thousand. Flames are estimated to have...