KANDY, Sri Lanka, Dec 5 (Reuters) - November to January are usually the busiest season for Herath Gedara Rohan Anil Kumara’s three-bedroom homestay in Sri Lanka’s hill country, famed for its tea ...

A man holds up a food packet as he moves through mud after landslides triggered by heavy rainfall following Cyclone Ditwah, in Mawathura in Kandy district, Sri Lanka, December 3, 2025. REUTERS/Thilina ...

Sri Lanka's request for Chinese assistance came three weeks after India pledged US$450 million in humanitarian aid for ...

Long before dawn, people were already queueing for medical aid on Tuesday at an emergency camp in Sri Lanka's coastal town of Chilaw, hit hard by a deadly cyclone and floods. Carpenter Prasantha ...

ALAWATHUGODA, Sri Lanka, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Nawaz Nashra recalls grabbing her three-year-old daughter, wrapping her in a bedsheet and running out of their home in central Sri Lanka as a landslide ...

Life is gradually returning to normal in Russia’s Kamchatka region after a powerful cyclone caused a “snow apocalypse.” Record snowfall of up to 3 metres (10 feet) paralyzed the area, blocked streets, ...

Australia’s climate is changing rapidly due to rising global greenhouse gas emissions. Extreme weather events such as tropical cyclones, east coast low pressure systems, flash floods, droughts, ...

Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia have also reported massive impact from the rains. In Indonesia, 686 people were killed and 476 remain missing after Cyclone Senyar caused catastrophic landslides and ...

Sri Lanka asked Japan to send its outpatient disaster medical unit to Chilaw, a cyclone-hit town whose main hospital was flooded The queue of Sri Lankan men, women and children waiting for medical ...

‘Like a tsunami’: Asia reels from deadly cyclones and monsoon rains Bangkok (CNN) — Wassana Suthi spent last week trying to keep a nursing home running as the floodwaters rose around her in the ...