An avalanche on Sunday near Mont Blanc in southeastern France swept four people to their deaths and left two more missing, the officials said

The quake was relatively shallow, at a depth of 12 kilometers (seven miles)

"There were five people of foreign origin that were on an outing in the area. We can confirm that one person is deceased," Morten Pettersen, a spokesman for the police, told journalists.

The UN General Assembly on Wednesday adopted by consensus and to cheers a resolution calling for the world body's top court to outline legal obligations related to climate change..Pushed for years by Vanuatu and Pacific islander youth, the measure asks the International Court of Justice (I

At least 23 people were killed and dozens injured as a tornado and strong thunderstorms ripped across Mississippi late on Friday, the state's emergency management agency said

Over 600 houses were damaged due to storms in Srimangal and Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar

The USGS said the quake was centred near Jurm in northeastern Afghanistan and had a depth of 187 kilometers (116 miles)

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The quake, which the United States Geological Survey (USGS) put at a magnitude of 6.8 and a depth of nearly 41 miles (66 kilometers), struck at 12:12 local time (1712 GMT)

A study has found that 95.5% of women in coastal areas require extra time to collect drinking water compared to the high Barind and northern river basin areas due to climate change..The study, titled “Causes of vulnerability and social conflict dynamics in the context of climate change: Lo

Due to climate change, women in the southwest coastal region of Bangladesh have been facing several violations of their gender rights, according to a study.

Smoke from monster wildfires in Australia caused a chemical reaction that widened the ozone hole 10 percent, researchers said Wednesday, raising fears that increasing forest fires could delay the recovery of Earth's atmospheric protection against deadly UV radiation.

UN member states finally agreed Saturday to a text on the first international treaty after years of negotiations to protect the high seas, a fragile and vital treasure that covers nearly half the planet

Nearly 41,000 people from six states -- but mostly from Johor -- have been evacuated to schools and community centres where food, water and clothes were provided

The earthquake that struck on February 6 hit Turkey and Syria, devastating scores of cities and killing more than 50,000 people in both countries.

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An earthquake shook southeast Turkey today, killing one person, injuring 69 and causing some buildings to collapse, Turkish authorities said..It hit three weeks after a massive quake that killed more than 50,000 people in Turkey and Syria..Yunus Sezer, head of Turkey's Disaster and E

An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 struck Sulawesi, Indonesia on Monday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said

The quake had a depth of 38 kilometres (23 miles), the USGS said, and was recorded in the sparsely populated West New Britain archipelago region on Sunday morning.