Venice tourist bus plunges from bridge, killing 21
At least 21 people including several children have died after a bus crashed off a flyover near Venice and burst into flames, officials say.
At least 21 people including several children have died after a bus crashed off a flyover near Venice and burst into flames, officials say.
A newly refined map of Zealandia was created by a small international team of geologists and seismologists who used the data from rock samples on the ocean floor as the eighth continent is majorly submerged in water.
Police in the Indian capital, Delhi, have raided the homes of several prominent journalists and authors in connection with an investigation into the funding of news website NewsClick.
Vedhapriya Ganesan is one of a handful of women snake rescuers in the Indian city of Chennai.
For decades mangroves had been disappearing from Sri Lanka’s coastline, where the salt-water-loving trees were often felled to make way for shrimp ponds and salt pans.
The government is to carry out a census of the elephant population after 13 years.
The ocean bed is a world of its own, with multicolored fish and other creatures, coral reefs and sea weeds giving it a unique beauty.
The abandoned shrimp farms and salt pans that litter Sri Lanka’s coastline are a testament to the pitfalls of unsustainable development.
A fresh public campaign is underway in Batticaloa against a proposed prawn-farming and an ilmenite mining that is already underway in the east.
The Central Environmental Authority (CEA) has decided to conduct a public hearing into the planned wind energy project in Mannar by India’s Adani Group.