A leading disaster watchdog has ranked Bangladesh as the world's sixth "high disaster risk country" in terms of its exposure to typhoons, earthquake and tsunamis.

Monsoon rains, floods and mudslides in Thailand have killed at least 98 people since July, including a French tourist, authorities said on Friday, posing a test for the new government of Prime Mini

A team of scientists and engineers will pump water through a high-pressure hose suspended from a helium balloon 1km above a disused airfield in Norfolk next month in an unlikely effort to develop a technological solution to combating climate change.

The test at Sculthorpe will be Britain’s first experiment in the controversial field of geoengineering - counteracting global warming by deliberately cooling the climate.

Typhoon Nanmadol began blowing toward Taiwan on Sunday after leaving at least 10 people dead and scuttling a visit by a U.S. Navy carrier group in the Philippines, officials said.

A powerful typhoon is blowing away from the northern Philippines after leaving at least four people dead despite not making landfall.

The death toll in the Philippines from tropical storm Nock-ten climbed to 41 yesterday, as millions of people across the main island of Luzon mopped up after a week of heavy rain, officials said.

At least 25 people were killed and as many as 31 others went missing as a slow-moving tropical storm dumped enormous amounts of rain across the Philippines' main island, authorities said Wednesday.

Four men died in flash floods while fishing and two people were crushed to death in northern Vietnam as a weakening storm approached from the Gulf of Tonkin, state media said on Friday, while 11 fishermen were missing after storms in the Philippines.

Rescuers in Vietnam located one body after the four were swept away on Thursday following two days of strong rain in Yen Bai province, the Vietnam