The UK’s seemingly endless supply of fresh fruit and vegetables may be heading for a difficult test. A powerful El Niño climate pattern developing in the tropical Pacific is threatening to disrupt
Tehran was blanketed in a surreal and dangerous mix of black smoke and rain on March 8, following Israeli drone strikes on massive oil depots and refineries just outside the city. The
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When disaster strikes, information is a lifeline. For years, as part of Google’s Crisis Resilience efforts, we’ve provided early warnings about natural hazards to help communities stay safe. However, high-fidelity data for certain disasters
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Residents living near the Lakvijaya Power Plant in Norochcholai have raised concerns after unusual white smoke was seen rising from one of the facility’s smokestacks, prompting anxiety among communities situated close to
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The world faces an urgent water crisis as climate change and geopolitical tensions threaten the stability of river systems that sustain hundreds of millions of people across South Asia. According to recent
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A nationwide strike by disaster relief personnel has brought compensation payments to victims of Cyclone Ditwah to a standstill, after thousands of frontline government officers withdrew from duty on February 27, citing
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Government officials, development experts, business leaders, and civil society representatives gathered in Bangkok for the 13th Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development, issuing an urgent call to accelerate action on water security, clean
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Construction of the Jaffna International Cricket Stadium on Mandativu Island, inaugurated on September 1, 2025, under President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s patronage, has been ordered to stop until an environmental impact assessment is
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Police in Catania say a dog has been caught on CCTV allegedly trained by its owner to dump rubbish illegally, highlighting growing fly-tipping problems in the city. Security footage from the San
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Humans and elephants have coexisted in Sri Lanka for thousands of years, yet today about 70% of elephant habitats overlap with human settlements, creating persistent conflict. Farmers cultivating crops in elephant-populated areas
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In a remote stretch of the western Pacific Ocean, far from major cities and daily headlines, the atmosphere has begun to behave in a way that worries climate scientists. For the second
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Kenya and Somalia are facing a deepening drought emergency that is devastating pastoralist livelihoods, driving distress sales of livestock, and raising the risk of conflict over scarce resources, according to reporting by
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The U.S. Embassy in Colombo this week welcomed a team of engineers and medical professionals from the Montana National Guard as they worked alongside Sri Lanka’s Disaster Management Centre and other government
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Entire neighbourhoods in a hilltop town in southern Sicily have been torn apart by a massive landslide triggered by extreme rainfall, forcing the evacuation of around 1,500 residents and leaving buildings split
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Global ocean temperatures climbed to some of the highest levels ever recorded in 2025, underscoring the relentless accumulation of heat within the Earth’s climate system and intensifying alarm among scientists. According to
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Sri Lanka’s central hill country experienced an unusual cold snap this week as Nuwara Eliya recorded a minimum temperature of 3.5 degrees Celsius in the 24 hours ending at 8.30 a.m. on
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