The number of major droughts recorded globally in 2015 was more than double the 10-year average, due to a severe El Niño weather event, the top UN disaster risk official said here Wednesday.

Millions more people globally are facing the threat of severe food and water shortages in early 2016 as droughts and flood devastate crops and strain a humanitarian system already struggling to mee

An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale jolted 94km W of Panguna, Papua New Guinea at 22:04:36 GMT on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said.

The "super-charged" El Nino weather system could leave 4.7 million people across the Pacific with widespread hunger, thirst and disease if the global community doesn't urgently act as drought and e

The powerful "Great Godzilla" El Nino in the Pacific may last as much as two months longer than expected because of another unusual climate phenomenon scientists have nick-named "The Blob".

This report assesses the impact of climate change on agriculture and fisheries in three Pacific Island countries, including the impacts on agricultural production, economic returns for major crops, and food security.

The UN has urged Pacific island nations to prepare now for a looming El Nino emergency which could affect more than 4 million people, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters here Tuesday.

A ferry and recreational boats pass in front of the Sydney Opera House September 28, 2014.

One day last March, farmers in this village on the banks of the Kafetina River, in the mountainous highlands of Papua New Guinea, watched their food gardens swept away by pouring rain, flooding and

An intensifying El Nino may bring the worst drought in 20 years to Papua New Guinea, the country's prime minister said, raising fears that production of the country's critical agricultural commodit

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