Australia’s largest discrete Indigenous community will receive a $14m cyclone shelter to aid response efforts during extreme weather events, as Labor invests $200m into at-risk populations as part of ...

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With its location along the Pacific Ring of Fire and its proximity to the Pacific Ocean, the country regularly experiences devastating typhoons and earthquakes.

Rice farmer Hwang Seong-yeol and four other South Korean growers have sued the state utility Korea Electric Power Corp. and ...

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Weather can turn deadly at a moment's notice. See what weather conditions or natural disasters are responsible for the most fatalities across the country.

After years of disciplined reform and painful sacrifice, Jamaica had done what few global debt specialists thought possible.

The study found that most Australians are unclear about the official start of storm season. Only 9% correctly identified Sept. 1 as the beginning, while two-thirds could not name the date, and a ...

Home insurance is getting less affordable, and less available, as insurers raise prices and pull back from areas with extreme ...

A complex mix of fragile geology, deforestation, and failed enforcement has turned the escarpment into a death trap, despite years of scientific warnings ...