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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...
World must act to stem surge of polluting trash, U...
The world generated 2.3 billion tonnes of municipal waste last year and the pile of trash is set to grow another two-thirds by 205...
Fear for rhinos as poachers kill 500 in South Afri...
Conservationists raised the alarm on Tuesday as South Africa reported a sharp increase in rhino poaching, with almost 500 animals...
EU parliament backs contested biodiversity bill
EU lawmakers on Tuesday gave the final green light to a milestone bill aimed at protecting nature in the bloc, overriding conserva...
Three guilty over Wimbledon climate protests
A UK judge on Monday found three climate protesters guilty after they ran on a court at the Wimbledon tennis tournament and threw...
English rivers in 'desperate' state: report
English rivers are in a "desperate condition", campaigners warned on Monday in a report highlighting the growing impact of polluti...
New farmer show of force as EU ministers tackle re...
Farmers faced off with riot police in Brussels streets paralysed by tractors on Monday, as EU ministers huddled to try to streamli...
2 million animals dead as extreme winter weather h...
More than two million animals have died in Mongolia so far this winter, a government official said Monday, as the country endures...
Man Utd's Ratcliffe unveils electric Ineos car
Manchester United's new co-owner Jim Ratcliffe unveiled Friday his Ineos group's latest 4x4 vehicle, which will come in two electr...