A passenger train has derailed in southern Pakistan, killing at least 40 people and injuring up to 100. The BBC News website looks at some of the worst rail disasters to have happened round the world ...

Catastrophic wildfire disasters have surged globally with 43 per cent of the world's worst fires striking in just the past ...

The devastating earthquake in Haiti a year ago accounted for about two-thirds of the toll, killing more than 222,500 people, according to the Belgium-based Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of ...

Extreme weather events have increased dramatically in the past 20 years, taking a heavy human and economic toll worldwide, and are likely to wreak further havoc, the United Nations said on Monday.

While climate scientists want to see Beijing adopt a more ambitious goal for emissions reduction, this is the first time ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -Natural disasters in China caused direct economic loss of 19.6 billion yuan ($2.75 billion) in August, the Ministry of Emergency Management said on Wednesday. Across the country, ...