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Rio Tinto on Monday said it has initiated a ‘coordinated shutdown’ at Iron Ore Company of Canada operations in Newfoundland and Labrador in response to

Floods in southern Kyrgyzstan have killed four people and inundated hundreds of homes in Osh, the Central Asian country’s second-largest city, the Ministry of Emergency

The UN’s International Seabed Authority is to meet to discuss new rules to allow companies to extract minerals from the ocean floor, despite growing concerns

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has warned other developing countries that future carbon taxes proposed by rich countries will damage their economies unless they act

The southern Russian city of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea declared a state of emergency due to forest fires covering an area of 22 hectares.

Landslides triggered by heavy rains in a mountainous area in northern Vietnam swamped a 16-seater van on Saturday, killing at least 11 people and leaving

Residents in the eastern Canadian town of Labrador have been ordered to evacuate due to an impending wildfire. The provincial government of Newfoundland and Labrador

Natural disasters such as floods, droughts and extreme temperatures cost China 93.16 billion yuan (US$12.83 billion) in the first half of this year, affecting nearly

South Korea’s national railway company suspended some regular routes and slowed bullet trains as heavy rains in the central region caused flooding and landslides. The

Torrential rains in the megalopolis of Chongqing in southwest China triggered landslides and flooding that caused at least six deaths and widespread disruption. Extreme rains