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Darwin's Galapagos island species, protected yet s...
Industrial fishing boats hover menacingly on the edges of Ecuador's Galapagos Marine Reserve, where schools of multicolored fish a...
Thai tourist hotspot Chiang Mai tops world's most...
Thai tourist hotspot Chiang Mai was blanketed by hazy smog Friday, as residents and visitors to the usually picturesque northern c...
Turkish ministers in Baghdad talks ahead of Erdoga...
A high-ranking Turkish delegation held talks in Baghdad on Thursday, discussing key security and energy issues ahead of an expecte...
Rangers hunt endangered Indonesian tigers after de...
Indonesian rangers along with an animal whisperer are hunting multiple critically endangered Sumatran tigers after two villagers w...
Paris 2024 hopes to be model for lower-carbon Olym...
This year's Paris Olympics will use renewable energy, serve lots of vegetarian meals and heavily restrict plastic bottles, but can...
Adagio in sea: Coral larvae 'settle near sounds of...
Audio recordings of healthy reefs -- an underwater chorus of fish songs and crackles from snapping shrimp -- may help efforts to r...
Giant redwoods thriving in the UK: experts
Endangered giant redwood trees are thriving in the UK but could also be significantly contributing to capturing carbon emissions,...
Musk visits Tesla's sabotage-hit German factory
Elon Musk travelled Wednesday to Tesla's factory near Berlin to lend his workers "support" after the plant was forced to halt prod...
Water cuts add to frustrations ahead of S.Africa v...
Anger is mounting in some Johannesburg districts left without water for more than a week, fewer than three months before general e...
Smog and sick kids: Thai pupils endure air polluti...
Hundreds of Thai children strain to sing the national anthem, reedy voices and fragile lungs competing against eight lanes of belc...
Colombia's Caribbean jewel slowly sinking as sea w...
A skeleton lies exposed to the elements as turquoise Caribbean waters lap the shores near a shattered tomb -- a grisly reminder th...
Poo bags and trackers: Nepal orders new Everest ru...
Nepal has ordered Everest mountaineers to carry mandatory trackers after one of the deadliest seasons last year -- and remove thei...
Flying high: UK's modern-day green airship takes s...
Britain's innovative Airlander 10 airship could soon take to the skies to offer leisure passengers panoramic views and far less po...
'It was an oasis': Mexico City frets about water
Agustin Garcia looks with dismay at the dry bed of the lake where he once fished for a living -- a symptom of the water problems f...
Greenpeace calls for high seas protected area in G...
Greenpeace on Monday called for the creation of a high seas marine protected zone under a new UN treaty to secure a much wider are...
Youths having to grow up 'too quickly' amid climat...
Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg said Monday that young people like her have had to grow up "too quickly" to resolve a cl...
Paris must have 'plan B' for open water swimming:...
Brazilian swimmer Ana Marcela Cunha, the reigning Olympic open water champion, has called on organisers of this year's Paris Games...
Warmest US winter on record
This winter was the warmest ever recorded in the United States, data showed Friday -- the latest sign the world is moving towards...
Australia's Great Barrier Reef in grip of 'mass bl...
A "mass bleaching event" is unfolding on Australia's famed Great Barrier Reef, authorities said Friday, as warming seas threaten t...
'Mass bleaching event' under way on Australia's Gr...
A "mass bleaching event" is unfolding on Australia's famed Great Barrier Reef, authorities said Friday, as warming seas threaten t...
Kala, rare Sumatran tiger cub, makes her debut in...
A run around and a cuddle with dad -- Rome zoo's new Sumatran tiger cub made her public debut Thursday, three months after her bir...
February marks 9th straight month of record-smashi...
Last month was the warmest February on record globally, the ninth straight month of historic high temperatures across the planet a...
Birds, beetles, bugs could help replace pesticides...
Natural predators like birds, beetles and bugs might be an effective alternative to pesticides, keeping crop-devouring pests popul...
Prague, Berlin zoos to reintroduce wild horses to...
Prague zoo said Tuesday it would transport eight endangered wild horses to a Kazakhstan steppe in June in a joint project with the...
Climbers to pay $13 fee on popular Mount Fuji trai...
Hikers using the most popular route to climb Japan's Mount Fuji will be charged $13 each from July, with numbers capped to ease co...
Volcano on uninhabited Galapagos island spews lava...
A volcano on an uninhabited island of Ecuador's famous Galapagos archipelago is spewing lava, authorities said Sunday, potentially...
Artificial glaciers stave off drought in Kyrgyzsta...
In the Tian-Shan mountains of Kyrgyzstan, villagers have made an artificial glacier to provide water for their drought-hit farms.
'Very worried': Scientists fret as Antarctic sea i...
Sea ice levels in Antarctica have registered historic lows for three consecutive years, portending grave consequences for life on...
Rain offers slight reprieve from largest wildfire...
Rainfall offered some reprieve from the largest wildfire in the history of Texas, officials said Friday, though dry, gusty conditi...
Faulty warnings, deforestation turned Philippine r...
Faulty warning systems, poverty and deforestation of mountains in the southern Philippines turned recent unseasonably heavy rains...
Texas battling largest wildfire in its history
Texas emergency crews were struggling Thursday to contain the largest wildfire in the US state's history, with the blaze leaving a...
Activists occupy German forest to block Tesla expa...
Environmental activists occupying a forest close to Tesla's factory near Berlin said Thursday they want to stop the electric vehic...