Science & Environment
Total solar eclipse brings darkness to millions as it sweeps North America
By Joseph Ax, Brad Brooks and Henry Romero Reuters People across North America – from a Mexican seashore to breathtaking Niagara Falls ...Search for survivors after Taiwan hit by biggest quake in 25 years
By Amber WANG AFP At least seven people were killed and more than 700 injured Wednesday by a powerful earthquake in Taiwan ...Madagascar cyclone Gamane kills at least 18, displaces thousands
A tropical cyclone that swept across Madagascar has killed 18 people and left four missing after making landfall on the north of the Indian ...Flooded Greek lake a warning to European farmers battling climate change
By Angeliki Koutantou Reuters Sitting in a small motorboat, farmer Babis Evangelinos glides over land he once cultivated on the Thessaly plain ...Thousands homeless after DR Congo’s worst floods in sixty years
By Benoit Nyemba and Ange Adihe Kasongo Reuters In a makeshift camp for people displaced by floods in Democratic Republic of Congo, ...Siberian shipyard workers brave freezing cold for “the hardest job in the world”
A drone flies low over a snow-covered shipyard in Russia’s Far East, where workers toil in subzero temperatures to maintain the hulking ...Philippine landslide death toll climbs to 37
The number of people killed by a landslide in the southern Philippines has risen to 37, an official said on Sunday, as ...Forest fires kill 51 in Chile, menace urban areas
Forest fires raging in central Chile have killed at least 51 people and the death toll is likely to keep climbing, authorities ...Australia sweats in heatwave, lifting bushfire risk amid El Nino
Large swaths of Australia sweltered again on Sunday through a widening heatwave, which the national weather forecaster said raised the bushfire risk ...Volcano erupts in Iceland, flowing lava reaches fishing town
A volcano erupted in southwest Iceland on Sunday, with molten lava flows reaching the outskirts of a small fishing town by midafternoon, ...