JAKARTA — A Tapanuli orangutan, the world’s rarest great ape, has been discovered dead in mud and log debris in a village in northern Sumatra — a grim sign of how severely recent floods and landslides ...

Indonesia's government is resisting growing pressure to declare a national disaster over devastating floods that killed hundreds of people and laid waste to parts of Sumatra island. The country has ...

Extreme and more frequent flooding and related calamities (e.g. landslides and mudslides) are some of the most dire immediate ...

When Cyclone Ditwah made landfall on November 28 2025, Sri Lanka experienced one of its deadliest environmental disasters in modern history. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. HANOI, Vietnam — Southeast Asia is being pummeled by unusually severe floods this year, as late-arriving storms ...

Some interventions were implemented – 18 people were rescued from the flooded Olifants River by the South African National Defence Force. Others were saved from the northernmost camp in Kruger ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recovering from recent flooding is still proving to be a major challenge for so many across western Washington. In Skagit County, ...

The latest flooding follows successive storms since late January that have battered central and southern Portugal ...

An absolute drenching across the southern half of the NT has been declared a disaster, as the government activates emergency funding to assist with the recovery.

Writing for The Conversation, experts, including Neil Gunn, ask whether the UK can use the time Flood Re is buying to reduce risk fast enough to make a fair transition possible by 2039.

As many as 35 critically endangered Tapanuli orangutans — 4% of the species’ total population — may have been wiped out in the catastrophic floods and landslides that struck the Indonesian island of ...