Indonesia rejects claims that illegal logging worsened deadly North Sumatra floods, saying the logs came from natural or legal sources.

Rescue workers in Indonesia are struggling to reach victims in several devastated areas that were hit by an earthquake and floods, and authorities fear the confirmed death toll of 248 will rise furthe

Swathes of Asia have been hit by devastating floods. Across Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and Sri Lanka the death toll has now topped 1,300.

The weekend’s fatal floods in Texas have sparked immediate clashes in Congress over the federal government’s role in preventing, or at least minimizing, the human toll of natural disasters. On one side are Democrats pointing to the Trump administration ...

GENEVA — Floods and storms were the most frequent natural disasters in 2006, while extreme temperatures pushed the death toll in Europe up 5 percent higher than the average for the past five years, the United Nations said Monday. There were 21,796 ...