In Indonesia, firefighters do not just battle flames — they pick up school report cards, banish ghosts, and comfort the broken-hearted. But these acts of public service throw a spotlight on other ...

Australia has a “shockingly simple economy” and risks being left behind in a global trade war, says Asia-Pacific expert ...

An Indonesian volcano spewed a 10-kilometre molten plume of ash topped by lightning into the sky, weeks after another huge eruption triggered dozens of flight cancellations in Bali.

India’s Opposition leaders strongly condemned the jailing of two Catholic nuns on what they called false charges of human ...

The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has detected a significant increase in hotspots that could potentially trigger forest and land ...

Mr Mustapa Mustaman has spent more than two decades at a charcoal factory near Malaysia's quiet town of Kota Tinggi in Johor, ...

Nature lovers will find plenty to fall for at the World Forestry Center in Portland, which offers everything from Bigfoot ...

A tsunami sent waves into parts of Russia, Japan, Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off ...

A tsunami has hit coastal areas of Russia’s Kuril Islands and Japan’s large northern island of Hokkaido after an ...

Today at about 11:30am local time, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula in the ...

The earthquake in Kamchatka is the largest worldwide since 2011. Its location has been very seismically active in recent months.