Dozens of people are missing and feared dead after a glacier crashed into a dam and triggered a huge flood in northern India. The broken dam prompted a deluge of water to pour through a valley in the state of Uttarakhand. Villages have been evacuated, but officials warned as many as 150 people may have […]
By Laura Sanicola (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc has ordered more than 1,000 truck engines that run on compressed natural gas as it tests ways to shift its U.S. fleet away from heavier polluting trucks, the company told Reuters on Friday. The coronavirus pandemic caused delivery activity to surge in 2020, with truck volumes exceeding 2019 […]
A huge snowstorm has struck a highway in north Japan, causing a 130-car pile-up, killing one person and injuring 10. The storm blanketed a stretch of the Tohoku Expressway in Miyagi prefecture at around noon (03:00 GMT) on Tuesday. Some 200 people have been caught up in the pile-up and rescuers are currently at the […]
By Joe Brock, John Geddie, Saurabh Sharma SINGAPORE/VARANASI, India (Reuters) – A wheelbarrow and a handful of metal grids for capturing litter, emblazoned with the words “Renew Oceans,” sit rusting outside an empty, padlocked office in the Indian city of Varanasi, a short walk from the Ganges. It is all that is left of a programme, funded […]
By Reuters Staff (Reuters) – A huge fire swept through the Rohingya refugee camps in southern Bangladesh in the early hours of Thursday, the United Nations said, destroying homes belonging to thousands of people. The U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said more than 550 shelters home to around 3,500 people were either totally or partially destroyed […]
People in central Spain are struggling as a deep freeze follows the weekend’s heavy snow, leading to treacherous conditions. Officials have warned the elderly to stay at home. At least seven people have died due to the weather – the two latest victims were homeless people in Barcelona. The temperature plunged to -25C (-13F) in […]
By Sudarshan Varadhan, Neha Arora CHENNAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Hundreds of millions of people in north India woke up on Sunday to toxic air following Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, after many revellers defied bans on using firecrackers to celebrate. The capital New Delhi was blanketed with a thick haze, with the average pollution level […]
By Neha Arora NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Air quality in India’s capital deteriorated to its worst this year on Tuesday prompting a social media barrage of residents complaining about stinging eyes, sore throat and breathlessness in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. Delhi’s overall air quality index, which measures pollutants including PM2.5 particles, rose to […]
By Neha Arora, Mayank Bhardwaj NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Residents of the Indian capital are enduring one of the worst spells of air pollution in years, data released on Monday showed, raising the risks to city residents posed by the novel coronavirus, doctors said. Pollution in New Delhi had almost disappeared earlier this year, when the […]
By Sachin Gogoi BBC Monitoring Labanya Saikia, a single mother of three in India’s north-eastern state of Assam, lost her house to a raging fire that started from a nearby gas well of the state-run Oil India Limited (OIL) in June. Also lost in the fire was her tiny shop in Tinsukia district that enabled […]
