Those Days of Doom on the Yangtze
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In âStill Life,â the blood and the sweat run directly into the Yangtze River, where they mingle with more than a few tears.
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A Fiji islander frets about rising sea levels, while villagers cope with the destruction of mangrove swamps in India, and a Nepalese Sherpa fears his mountain valley will be flooded by melting glacier runoff high in the
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Readers report their experiences of the Indian Ocean tsunami that has devastated parts of Asia.
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By Wang Ying  Large-scale algae outbreaks are once again posing a threat to the drinking water supplies from Taihu and Chaohu lakes.
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China's fiercest winter in half  a century brought renewed misery for millions of travelers on  Sunday as they struggled to make their way home for the year's  most important holiday.
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Brutal winter weather has wracked China's central, eastern and southern sections, stranding hundreds of thousands of travelers ahead of next week's Lunar New Year holiday.
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Senior officials in Beijing are now grumbling that the megaproject on the Yangtze is turning into an environmental nightmare
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Severe drought has left water levels in the Yangtze river at a 142-year low, Chinese media reports.
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SEOUL -- By some accounts, it was a disaster of biblical proportions that afflicted North Korea in July.
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Huge casualties are reported from tidal waves and earth tremors in southern and eastern Asia.
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China&#39;s Sichuan province faced the threat of epidemics after the worst flooding in a century killed at least 172 people and left scores missing, while water levels at the huge Three Gorges Dam swelled.
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Science & environment: China's greatest river has fallen to its lowest level since 1866, threatening endangered species
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Sir, I hope that all city councillors saw the Country Calendar programme, Saturday January 27. The programme graphically showed the importance of wetlands. Such areas were prolific around our estuaries in 1961. The destruction of our wetlands around Tahunanui, Annesbrook and Stoke horrifies me.
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BEIJING -- China's Sichuan province faced the threat of epidemics yesterday after the worst flooding in a century killed at least 172 people and left scores missing, while water levels at the huge Three Gorges Dam swelled.
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At least 64 people are now known to have died as a result of torrential rain in south-western China. About 70 more are missing in what the Xinhua news agency describes as the most destructive storms of the year in Sichuan province and nearby Chongqing.
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Torrential rain in southwest China triggered flash floods and mudslides that have left 21 dead, while a neighbouring region is suffering its worst drought in 60 years, state media reported Friday.
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BANGKOK - With the staggering numbers of dead and injured from the tsunami that struck South and Southeast Asia last weekend continuing to rise, the tragedy is quickly turning into one of the worst natural disasters in modern history.