BEIJING--China is being buffeted by two weather extremes, with heavy rain and flooding forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of people in the south and a heat wave prompting fears of a ...

As of August last year, China has 59 World Heritage sites, including 15 natural heritage sites and four mixed cultural and ...

An aerial drone photo shows the site of a landslide in Jinping village, Yibin, in Sichuan province, China, on Saturday. (Xinhua/AP pic) A landslide in China’s southwestern Sichuan province that ...

Thousands of fires are currently wreaking havoc in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Many of them have been blazing for months, and it could take months more still to put them out. Although fires ...

Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series on the devastation caused by extreme weather in central China’s Hunan province and the government’s efforts to relocate entire villages from ...