Drone view shows buildings and roads are half submerged in floodwaters after heavy rainfalls, in Rongjiang BEIJING (Reuters) -Natural disasters across China in the first half of 2025 brought direct ...

Beijing issued its highest alert for rainstorms on Monday, days after deadly deluges swept parts of the Chinese capital and ...

In August 1975, China’s Banqiao Dam collapsed after unprecedented rainfall from Super Typhoon Nina. Built to withstand a ...

A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.2 shook Xinjiang, China, according to the National Center for Seismology (NCS). The quake ...

A 7.7 magnitude earthquake recorded on Friday near the Burmese city of Mandalay has killed at least 3,145 people, with at least 4,589 injured and hundreds more missing and feared trapped under rubble.

Dec. 20 (UPI) --Catastrophic weather claimed the lives of hundreds of people in 2024 as increasingly severe natural disasters ripped across the world indiscriminately. A rash of tornados pounded the ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Floods that damaged hydropower dams in Nepal and destroyed the main bridge connecting the country to China show the vulnerability of infrastructure and need for smart rebuilding in ...

The humanitarian needs and natural disasters in Africa have increased considerably in recent years, and such a trend is unlikely to change in the near future. While many factors drive the growing ...