New Zealand is preparing for a severe weather event which may become a cyclone. Northland and Auckland are expected to be hit hard with hea...

Potential Tropical Cyclone Nine is moving through the northwest Caribbean Sea towards the southeast Gulf of Mexico, threatening southeaster...

The UN body released a draft report on Monday recommending the reef's World Heritage status be downgraded because of its dramatic coral dec...

Specialists who have been observing Sunderbans’ ecology wondered whether it was possible to plant five crore or even more saplings in this ...

Dwelling on the tourism potential of the region, he said, the Centre will extend all possible support to the state for improving tourism in...

'Nivar' is forecast intensify into a very severe cyclonic storm and is likely to cross the coast between Tamil Nadu and Puducherry before d...

Areas inhabited by 36 mn Indians now are at risk, much higher than the five mn expected previously.

Researchers unveiled the full extent of the coral bleaching that is unfolding on the world's largest coral reef system, off the coast of Qu...

"This strong wind would break barriers of caste and creed in Bihar and Jharkhand too and end politics of Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad based...

Researchers from the James Cook University have developed a new technique that analyses the images to assess coastal water quality from spa...

Only popular awareness on the possibility of managing disasters can precipitate cooperation among the three tiers of government

While the country’s eastern seaboard braces for cyclone Phailin, the people in Jagatsinghpur district in Odisha are particularly in dread.R...

Decks have been cleared for commencement of construction of Odisha's first geo-synthetic-tube seawall project to tame the marauding sea.

The coral cover of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, a World Heritage Site, has halved over the past 27 years due to cyclones, poisonous star...

Gen. Aung San and other govt leaders were assassinated by gunmen during a Cabinet meeting, shortly after Britain granted independence to th...

The death toll from a cyclone in Bangladesh was 3,000 and continuing to rise with millions left homeless and without medical help.