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Twelve dead, 60 injured in India billboard collaps...
Twelve people were killed and at least 60 injured after a billboard collapsed during a fierce storm in India's financial capital M...
Environmental protests stop play at two Rome Open...
Environmental protestors stopped play at two matches at the Rome Open tennis tournament on Monday after invading courts in the Ita...
Chinese firms exit Romania solar tender after EU p...
Two Chinese-owned solar panel manufacturers have withdrawn from a public procurement tender in Romania after the EU launched an an...
Loss and hope: US park rangers' climate crisis fig...
American biologist Laura Brennan describes the coin-sized Karner blue butterfly as "very delicate and graceful" with a "lovely blu...
Rivers rise again as rain batters flood-hit south...
River levels were rising again Sunday as strong rains lashed waterlogged southern Brazil, where flooding has killed more than 140...
Flash floods kill 62 in one day in north Afghanist...
The toll from deadly flash flooding that ripped through northern Afghanistan on Friday rose to 62 people, mainly women and childre...
Flash floods kill 50 in one day in north Afghanist...
At least 50 people, mainly women and children, were killed Friday in flash flooding that ripped through Afghanistan's Baghlan prov...
Envious shamans and pollution: Diverse threats to...
When fish numbers diminished in the Ecuadoran Amazon, the Siona Indigenous people blamed envious, rival shamans for blocking the a...
Judge tosses California children's pollution suit...
A federal lawsuit brought by a group of California children who claimed the US government was harming them by failing to clamp dow...
Famed Thai holiday isles suffer water shortages af...
The dazzling Thai holiday islands made famous by Hollywood film "The Beach" are facing a severe water shortage following a blister...
2023 'year of record climatic hazards' in Latin Am...
Latin America and the Caribbean had their warmest year on record in 2023 as a "double-whammy" of El Nino and climate change caused...
April temperatures in Indonesia hottest for more t...
Indonesia experienced its hottest April in more than four decades, two senior weather agency officials said Wednesday, as the regi...
Ritacuba Blanco: death of a Colombian glacier
Just a few months ago, the Colombian mountain peak of Ritacuba Blanco was covered in an unbroken layer of white ice and snow, just...
No let up yet for flood-battered south Brazil
The rains may have abated, but floodwaters on Monday continued their assault on southern Brazil, with hundreds of municipalities i...
Market-based schemes not reducing deforestation, p...
Market-based approaches to forest conservation like carbon offsets and deforestation-free certification schemes have largely faile...
Brazil mounts frantic rescue effort as flooding ki...
Authorities in southern Brazil scrambled Sunday to rescue people from raging floods and mudslides in what has become the region's...
Brazil mounts frantic rescue effort as flooding ki...
Authorities in southern Brazil scrambled Sunday to rescue people from raging floods and mudslides that have killed at least 75 and...
Brazil mounts frantic rescue effort as flooding ki...
Authorities in southern Brazil raced against the clock Sunday to rescue people from raging floods and mudslides that have killed a...
Race against time to rescue Brazil flood victims a...
Authorities were racing against time on Sunday to rescue people from raging floods and mudslides that have killed more than 50 and...
Heatwave hammers Thailand's stinky but lucrative d...
Clambering hand-over-hand, sweat dripping into his eyes, a durian labourer expertly slices a cumbersome fruit from a tree before t...
Vietnam temperature records tumble as heatwave sco...
More than 100 temperature records fell across Vietnam in April, according to official data, as a deadly heatwave scorches South an...
Heatwave swells Asia's appetite for air-conditioni...
A record-breaking heatwave is broiling parts of Asia, helping drive surging demand for cooling options, including air-conditioning...
Rains, mudslides kill 29 in southern Brazil's 'wor...
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday visited the country's south where floods and mudslides caused by torrent...
Kenya floods death toll rises to 188 as heavy rain...
The number of people who have lost their lives in devastating floods in Kenya since March has risen to 188, with dozens still miss...
Heat-struck Thai village hoists cartoon cat in des...
As millions across Southeast Asia suffer a blistering heatwave that is melting railway tracks, a Thai village resorted to an unusu...
New 'underground cathedral' opens ahead of Paris O...
It has no spire, stained glass windows or nave, but the cavernous underground stormwater facility set to be inaugurated in Paris o...
April temperatures in Bangladesh hottest on record
Bangladesh's weather bureau said Wednesday that last month was the hottest April on record, with the South Asian nation and much o...
'Have to be outside': Thai delivery riders swelter...
In Bangkok's central Siam Square, Suriyan Wongwan sweats while he waits to collect the food that he will deliver by motorbike as T...
Hong Kong team plants seeds to safeguard legacy gr...
Far from the soaring skyscrapers synonymous with Hong Kong, scientists and farmers labour in a paddy field on the city's outskirts...
G7 reportedly agrees end date for coal-fired power...
G7 energy ministers have agreed a time frame for phasing out coal-fired power plants, a British minister said Monday, as the UN wa...
G7 eyes possible end date for coal-fired power pla...
G7 energy ministers on Monday discussed a possible time frame for phasing out coal-fired power plants, as the UN warned "excuses"...
'It swept everything': Kenya villagers count toll...
The disaster struck in the dead of night, the villagers said, some still in shock over the deluge that engulfed their homes as a m...