India's National Disaster Relief Force (NDRF) has been working for strengthening regional-level cooperation for a quick and efficient response to natural calamities, its director Satya Narayana Pradhan has said. The endeavour will be to leverage strengths...

As the death toll for Cyclone Idai rises to 750 people across southern Africa, the storm hit city of Beira is slowly beginning the long road to recovery. The Category 2 storm made landfall shortly after midnight on March 15 in Beira, a port city on the...

As many as "300 to 400" bodies line the banks of a road out of the city of Beira in Mozambique, according to an eyewitness account, and flood waters have formed an inland ocean that is visible from outer space. The harrowing scene, described by Zimbabw...

Each morning, men living in fishing communities along Ghana's coastline push off in search of the day's catch. But when the boats come back to shore, it's the women who take over. In Ghana's fishing industry, women process and sell the fish caught by m...

A 29-year-old Canadian woman is reluctant to transition from her blue-collar fishing life embraced at the age of 12 into a white-collar existence, despite achieving high academic qualifications. Tiare Boyes from Victoria is now a postgraduate in Marine...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the government of Iceland have agreed to work closely together to facilitate the design and implementation of programs "supporting the long-term conservation of living marine ecosystems...

As the frozen fish defrosts under the hot Kenyan sun, fishmonger Mechak Juma prefers not to tell his customers that it has come all the way from China. We are at the largest fish market in the city of Kisumu, on the eastern shores of Lake Victoria, Afr...

South Africa’s Dr Jackie King has been named as the Stockholm Water Prize Laureate for her groundbreaking contributions to global river management. Her work has provided tools to decision makers allowing them to quantify the real costs and benefits o...

Like the air we breathe, water is essential in our lives. But for at least 2.1 billion people, clean water is still out of reach. Did you know that disease from unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation kills more people each year than all forms of vio...

World Water Day is March 22nd, 2019, and the theme is "leave no one behind." In 2010, the United Nations (UN) established that access to water is a human right. Billions of people still live without safe drinking water, particularly marginalized group...