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NEW DELHI: Amazon will soon ship customer packages in India through inland waterways as it looks to tap into cost-efficient and sustainable means of transportation for making deliveries. To this end, the e-commerce major on Wednesday signed…

A man holds an umbrella in the rain at a waterfront, amid a typhoon warning, in Hong Kong. (Image: Reuters)The red alert will be in force from 8 pm local time (1200 GMT), and covers an area of several hundred million inhabitants, including…

<!-- -->The government is taking extra steps to address potential flooding.Beijing: Beijing and other cities braced for severe flooding on Friday as summer storms rolled across many parts of China, while inland regions baked in…

SYDNEY: Heavy rain triggered flash floods that cut off some inland towns in Australia's southeast on Monday, with fresh evacuation warnings issued for thousands of rural residents. The country's fourth major flooding this year saw wild…

SYDNEY: Emergency crews in Australia's most populous state New South Wales were evacuating people and livestock and sandbagging towns on Saturday ahead of an expected peak in floodwaters, with one river forecast to hit a 70-year high water…

SYDNEY: Emergency crews in Australia's most populous state New South Wales were evacuating people and livestock and sandbagging towns on Saturday (Nov 5) ahead of an expected peak in floodwaters, with one river forecast to hit a 70-year…

MEHAR: From a hastily erected embankment protecting Mehar city, mosque minarets and the price board of a gas station poke above a vast lake that has emerged, growing to tens of kilometres wide. Beyond this shoreline in southern Sindh,…

New research highlights the increasing threat of microplastics to global farming and food production. Scientists at Staffordshire University are driving research to understand the scale of plastic pollution in agricultural soils and its…