A fresh report on the status of Tanzania's wildlife sector cited corruption as one of the reasons behind the increasing incidents of wildlife poaching in the East African nation.

The Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, scheduled to convene in Sendai, Japan from March 14-18, will adopt a new framework for disaster risk reduction for the coming 15 years.

A magnitude 4.5 earthquake jolted southwest China's Yunnan Province on Monday. No casualties have been reported.

SEVENTY percent of Shanghai’s household waste will be burned to generate electricity once four new waste incineration centers open next year, officials said yesterday.

Local authorities said the new shelters will raise the total number of such protection covers to 49.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon said on Wednesday disasters cost globally more than 300 billion U.S. dollars in losses every year, urging the world to act on disaster risk reduction.

LILONGWE, March 5 (Xinhua) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) has intensified support for Malawi and Mozambique in the wake of an outbreak of cholera in the two African countries, the UN health

THE output of companies engaged in helping factories reduce pollution reached 6 billion yuan (US$955.7 million) last year, the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Information said on Monda

A six-magnitude earthquake jolted waters off Indonesia's West Sumatra province's coast on Tuesday afternoon, but no tsunami potential was reported, according to Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology

Fifty people were injured when a 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck southwest China’s Yunnan Province on Sunday, local officials said yesterday.

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