Southern regions, including coastal Fujian province, were inundated by heavy rain following Typhoon Wipha. In Ningde city, municipal workers worked overnight to drain deep floodwater from streets into ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -Extreme rains and flooding across northern China have killed 60 people, more than half of them at a care home for the elderly in a suburb of Beijing, which has grappled with its ...

It is one thing to be warned of a bad natural disaster, but not knowing about it? That is hurtful, and China is not happy. At times, when a typical day starts with the idea that it will end similarly, ...

As global temperatures rise, thermal expansion of oceans and melting ice sheets are driving up sea levels worldwide. In many coastal areas, land subsidence—caused by groundwater extraction and rapid ...

Typhoon Kalmaegi left a trail of death and devastation as it tore through the central Philippines this week, reducing entire neighborhoods to rubble and displacing tens of thousands of people.