Continuous rain on Wednesday has helped contain the spread of a week-long wildfire in the city of Ofunato, Japan's Iwate ...

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A wildfire continued to spread on Monday (March 3) in northeastern Japan, prompting the local government to expand evacuation ...

Japan has deployed more than 2,000 firefighters to battle the country's biggest forest fire in three decades. At least one person has died in the blaze, which has torched more than 5,200 acres around ...

Cyclones typically form in tropical northern Australia, but Alfred is hitting the cooler centre of the eastern coast. The ...

The Bureau of Meteorology has updated the projected window of time when Tropical Cyclone Alfred is expected to make landfall.

The Japanese Government today began a rare auction of its emergency rice stockpiles in a bid to help drive down the surging ...

Australian utilities raced Tuesday to reconnect more than 120,000 homes and businesses still blacked out by gales and floods ...

Cyclone Alfred is expected to result in severe winds, flooding, and flight cancellations, impacting over four million people.

Ex-tropical cyclone Alfred lingered off the south-east Australian coast on Saturday and forecasters said Brisbane is likely ...