GUIYANG, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Two people are dead and another is missing after a rainstorm pounded a county in southwest China's Guizhou Province from Monday evening to Tuesday morning.

The effects of climate change have been felt through destruction of crops, and property by floods and prolonged drought.

About 13% of households and 12.65% of the population in Bangladesh are under risk from disasters, which include floods, cyclones, drought, water-logging, landslides, and salinity, Bangladesh Bureau

Two people were slightly injured and about 80 buildings damaged Thursday in the western Japan prefecture of Hiroshima, while evacuation orders or advisories were issued to some 703,000 people in fi

NAINITAL: Thousands of people living in 83 villages of Kumaon region, which are close to rivers, are now at the mercy of the weather after the monsoon reached Uttarakhand on Wednesday.

Indonesian authorities raced on Monday to rescue victims of landslides and flash floods caused by torrential rain at the weekend that killed nearly 50 people and left many missing in the main islan

CHANGSHA -- At least 10 people have died and 13 remain missing after heavy rain caused flash floods, mudslides and landslides in south China's Hunan, Guizhou, Guangdong provinces and Guangxi Zhuang

GUIYANG - Five people have died and four remain missing after flash floods, mudslides and landslides hit a county in southwest China's Guizhou Province.

BEIJING - China's first high orbit remote sensing satellite, Gaofen-4, went into use after six months of in-orbit testing, the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National

Questions are being raised over the state government and the forest department sanctioning the felling of over 15,000 trees - like jacaranda, fir and gulmohur -- ostensibly for the widening of the

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