1986 – The worst nuclear disaster in history occurs in Chernobyl
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By Damien Cave WEE WAA — Two years ago, the fields outside Christina Southwell’s family home near the cotton capital of Australia looked like a dusty, brown desert as drought-fuelled wildfires burned to the north and south. Last week,…
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By Aanya Wipulasena and Mujib Mashal RATNAPURA — This year’s crop worries M.D. Somadasa. For four decades, he has sold carrots, beans and tomatoes grown by local farmers using foreign-made chemical fertilizers and pesticides, which helped…
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By Somini Sengupta As presidents and prime ministers arrived in Glasgow, Scotland, for a pivotal climate summit, the outcome will determine, to a large extent, how the world’s 7 billion people will survive on a hotter planet and whether…
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NEW ORLEANS - Louisiana braced Sunday (29) for Hurricane Ida, a powerful Category 4 storm on course to slam into New Orleans 16 years to the day after deadly Hurricane Katrina devastated the southern US city. Showers and strong winds…
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In early 2020 when the first COVID-19 wave swept across Sri Lanka, triggering lockdowns, and impacting livelihoods, the World Bank and the government came together to support emergency response actions across multiple hard-hit sectors. The…
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By Amelie Baron LES CAYES -The death toll in Haiti's powerful earthquake jumped to over 700 on Sunday (15) as crews desperately dug through collapsed buildings for survivors in the Caribbean nation still reeling from its president's…
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By Melissa Eddy and Megan Specia BERLIN — European authorities have revised down the number of people missing as waters receded after devastating flooding in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland last week, even as the death…
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The COVID-19 pandemic provides an opportunity for Sri Lanka to review and strengthen its social protection programs to help citizens recover more quickly from future shocks. Social protection includes social assistance (welfare programs for…
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COLOMBO - The Sri Lankan government on Monday (12) said it would compensate local fishermen who were affected by the burning of the X-Press Pearl disaster, from an interim payment of US$ 40 million it hopes to claim from the ship operators.…
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