Authorities in Shanghai are contesting claims that the city is vulnerable to serious flooding, noting the city's work to build protective bulwarks in recent years and its capability of moving resid

Dhaka is the second most vulnerable to coastal flooding among nine major such risky cities of the world, according to a recent study.

Rainstorms have battered several southern Chinese provinces this week, toppling homes and killing a woman and her granddaughter in Hunan Province.

Tobacco use is massively entrenched in developing countries, where one of the biggest worries is the rise of smoking among women, according to a study published on Friday in The Lancet.

The World Bank said on Monday it plans to buy carbon credits from pig farms in the Philippines, helping farmers generate extra income by setting up environment friendly waste treatment facilities.

At least 15 people were killed on Tuesday as torrential rains triggered a landslide and widespread flooding in the Philippine capital Manila and nearby areas, officials said.

The death toll from week-long floods in the Philippines caused by a typhoon has risen to 45, with nine more bodies recovered in the past 48 hours, authorities said on Sunday.

The Philippines has indefinitely suspended the operations of the country's largest gold mine after a waste spillage near a major river, officials said on Monday.