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The Philippines energy explorer Philex Petroleum Corp has found more gas than previously estimated in the Sampaguita gas find in the Reed Bank, a disputed area of the South China Sea, a development that is likely to fan territorial tension with China.

At least five bodies were retrieved after a small ferry with dozens of passengers on board capsized in a river in Bangladesh's Kishoreganj district, some 117 km northeast of the capital Dhaka, on Wednesday morning, police said.

After almost a year and a half of operations, CryoSat has yielded its first seasonal variation map of Arctic sea-ice thickness.n June 2011, the first map of Arctic sea-ice thickness was unveiled, using CryoSat data acquired between January and February of that year.

Climate change will exacerbate water stress in Pacific Islands, particularly small islands that rely on seasonal rain for their freshwater needs, according to a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report, issued in Bangkok, Thailand, today.

Researchers including one of Indian origin have unveiled a novel learning platform to improve agricultural resilience to changing weather patterns and to reduce emissions footprint.

Diarrhoea levels are up in the city

The Department of Disaster Mitigation and Prevention on Sunday announced drought disaster zones in 42 out of 77 provinces across Thailand.

Ecuador expects China to provide all of the financing for the Refineria del Pacifico, a mega-refinery for processing crude and the largest public works project in the Andean country, President Rafael Correa said.

Sunday is Earth Day, observed every year since 1970.
Earth Day organizers have called on people worldwide to pledge "one billion acts of green." Those pledges range from residents turning off lights in their homes, to using mass transit for travel to work, to eating locally grown food.

Cheicknè Bah, a farmer in Yelimané in the Kayes region of south western Mali, with his sorghum crop that has been damaged by the drought.