Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Drone view shows buildings and roads are half submerged in floodwaters after heavy rainfalls, in Rongjiang BEIJING (Reuters) ...

A gas explosion at a coal mine in Shanxi, China, has killed at least 82 people. That's according to local officials.

Aftermath of late July's heavy rainfalls that flooded villages, in Huairou, Beijing BEIJING (Reuters) -Natural disasters in China caused direct economic loss of 19.6 billion yuan ($2.75 billion) in ...

A 7.7 magnitude earthquake recorded on Friday near the Burmese city of Mandalay has killed at least 3,145 people, with at least 4,589 injured and hundreds more missing and feared trapped under rubble.

Pakistan, Oct. 6 -- China has once again reaffirmed its steadfast solidarity with Pakistan by sending another major consignment of humanitarian aid to support families affected by the recent ...

China has nearly 600 million buildings across the country, including residential and commercial buildings such as factories, a recent survey, which for the first time put a number to the existing ...

Natural disasters are devastating events that have the potential to cause huge amounts of damage and loss of life. Globally, around 60,000 people die each year as a result of disasters such as ...