Stepping up its fight against pollution and environmental degradation, China has empowered its central green teams to inspect all provinces in the country.
A Nepali government survey has said that forests today take 44.74 percent of the total 141,718 sq km area of the Himalayan country, compared to the total forest cover of 39.6 percent between 1997 a
Heat waves classified as unusual today could within 30 years become a normal yearly occurrence in Africa, thereby triggering a damaging effect on life expectancy and crop production in the continen
Around 300,000 children in Somalia are suffering from malnutrition, with close to 60,000 under the age of five years in critical condition and in need of urgent therapeutic feeding, the ICRC report
Some 42 per cent of the Philippines is experiencing drought or dry spells brought on by El Ni'o. The La Ni'a phenomenon is expected to follow later this year, bringing excessive rainfall.
MANILA, 25th April, 2016 (WAM) - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a loan of $60 million to help water service providers outside Metro Manila improve water and sanitation assets needed
India and France have launched a programme with $1 trillion potential to help developing countries harness fully their solar resources for a clean energy future to meet the "biggest challenge human
Over 2,000 houses and other facilities with roofs of tin and corrugated sheets were damaged in the thunderstorms and torrential rains that hit many parts of Manipur on Tuesday, residents said.
Shimla, April 19 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh High Court on Tuesday issued notice to the central and state governments on the issue of declaring monkeys as vermin within the Shimla Municipal Corpora
