Disaster

On Friday, thousands of people commemorated the 30th anniversary of the earthquake that destroyed parts of Kobe, Japan, and killed over 6,400 people. In the island nation that experiences around one-fifth of the strongest tremors in...

On Friday, National Guard soldiers were patrolling Altadena, which had been mostly turned to ashes by wildfire. The arrival of these uniformed guys is too little, too late for the people who live in this devastated...

Due to the wildfires raging in Los Angeles, incoming US President Donald Trump provoked a political dispute Thursday with outgoing President Joe Biden and California’s Democratic governor. In a series of broadsides devoid of supporting facts,...

Hurricane-force winds ripped across the area Tuesday, causing a fierce wildfire in a Los Angeles suburb to burn buildings and cause hurried evacuations. Fearful people fled on foot from the 1,260-acre (510-hectare) fire that was consuming...

Heavy winds and rainfall from Cyclone Chido have damaged or destroyed over 35,000 homes and affected more than 90,000 children across Cabo Delgado province, in northern Mozambique, after the storm made landfall on Sunday. In addition...

As rescue crews in neighbouring Sri Lanka looked for eight persons who had gone missing in floodwaters, heavy rains battered southern India on Wednesday, with coastal areas anticipating a probable cyclonic storm. A frequent and lethal...

The August floods had a significant impact on the nation’s cattle and fisheries industries, with a total loss of Taka 2,327 crore. “The devastating floods during the month of August caused a huge loss in agriculture...

According to government monitors on Tuesday, the illicit burning of agricultural fields in northern India hit a record high this season, contributing to a poisonous fog that is strangling millions of people, including in the capital...

In the storm-ravaged northern Philippines, rivers overflowed Tuesday after heavy rain and a dam breach, swamping thousands of homes with floodwaters up to four meters high. Over the weekend, Typhoon Man-yi flooded large areas of the...

 The lawsuit seeks emotional and psychological harm in addition to unspecified damages for unpaid contractual obligations. The action, according to Aficionado’s lawyer William Reed, is an attempt “to force Ye to learn that this conduct has...