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By Jake Spring BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday hopes to forge a united front among rainforest nations when they engage in international climate nego...

By Ethan Wang and Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese river basin where 110 million people live has been hit by the worst floods since 1963 despite massive mitigation efforts, particularly during t...

By Melanie Burton MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Western Australia state has scrapped new Aboriginal heritage protection laws after just five weeks because of opposition from landowners. The decision, denounce...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Extreme rain battered northern China after Typhoon Doksuri made landfall in southern Fujian province on July 28, flooding cities including Beijing, killing about 60 people and caus...

(Reuters) - A player in Florida won a $1.58 billion Mega Millions lottery jackpot on Tuesday, the lottery website showed. The winning numbers drawn were 13, 19, 20, 32, 33, and the Megaplier was 14, a...

(Refiles to remove extra word in headline) BEIJING (Reuters) - Northern China warned of crop and animal diseases breaking out as flood waters retreated from rural areas, while some cities struggled to...

BEIJING (Reuters) - There have been 33 deaths from heavy floods in China's capital of Beijing as of Aug. 8, with 18 still missing, Beijing Daily reported on Wednesday. The disaster has stricken nearly...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Heavy rain from Typhoon Khanun pounded southern Japan on Wednesday as another storm approached from the east to possibly threaten Tokyo just as thousands of people prepare to travel ...

(Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 5.4 struck Mindanao, Philippines, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported on Wednesday. The quake was at a depth of 10 kilometers (6.21 miles),...

By Budi Purwanto and Johan Purnomo KARANGANYAR, Indonesia (Reuters) - It's been four, long, hot months since Sunardi's village has seen any rainfall as an El Nino-induced drought parches Indonesia, so...