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Fossil fuels causing cost-of-living crisis: climat...
The cost-of-living crisis pushing millions of people towards poverty in Europe is driven by fossil fuels, according to a leading E...
'Third' of Pakistan under water as flood aid effor...
Aid efforts ramped up across flooded Pakistan on Tuesday to help tens of millions of people affected by relentless monsoon rains t...
Ecuador investigates killing of four Galapagois gi...
Prosecutors in Ecuador on Monday announced an investigation into the alleged hunting and killing of four giant tortoises on the Ga...
Plenty of roadblocks for automakers seeking EV suc...
The world's top automakers -- motivated either by governmental regulations or pure profit -- have made a sharp turn away from foss...
Dead fish and depression on the banks of the Oder
Appearing tired and stressed, Piotr Wloch looks out dejectedly at his empty tourist boats on the Oder river after an environmental...
Pipeline operator to pay $13m over California coas...
The operators of a pipeline that leaked crude oil onto California beaches has agreed to plead guilty to environmental pollution ch...
Dry summer puts squeeze on French Alps cheese
France's record heat and drought have not spared the majestic pastures under the snow-capped Alps, where cows are struggling to fi...
UK cost-of-living crisis worsens as energy price c...
Britain announced Friday a vast 80-percent hike in electricity and gas bills, in a dramatic worsening of the cost-of-living crisis...
Lights out? Swiss brace for looming power shortage...
Switzerland is among the world's wealthiest countries, but its reliance on Russian gas and French nuclear power -- both in short s...
UN high-seas biodiversity treaty struggles to leav...
A two-week negotiating session on a treaty to protect the high seas wraps up Friday, with UN observers holding their breath that t...
California says new cars must be zero emission by...
California ruled Thursday that all new cars sold in America's most populous state must be zero emission from 2035, in what was bil...
Brazil records worst day for Amazon fires in 15 ye...
The number of forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon hit a nearly 15-year high this week, according to official figures that provide...
California set to ban fossil fuel cars by 2035
All new cars sold in California by 2035 will have to be zero emission under plans set to be adopted by the state this week, as the...
Boiling heat and no water: taps run dry in souther...
Younes Ajil turns on the tap in his home but nothing comes out: dozens of villages are without running water in drought-hit Iraq,...
Auld reekie: Edinburgh bin strike leaves a bad sme...
Trash overflowed from bins on the streets of Edinburgh on Tuesday as a strike by council workers hit the city during its internati...
Cyprus says major gas find could boost European su...
A new gas discovery off Cyprus could speed up exploitation of untapped resources and help secure supplies to Europe, Cypriot Energ...
After 'doomsday' floods, Sudanese fear worse to co...
In the Sudanese village of Makaylab, Mohamed Tigani picked through the pile of rubble that was once his mud-brick home, after torr...
Swiss glaciers shrink in half since 1931: study
Swiss glaciers have shed half their volume since 1931, Swiss researchers said Monday, following the first reconstruction of the co...
'We are divided': lake upends life for tiny Kenyan...
At first light, children from one of Kenya's smallest and most isolated tribes put on life jackets and board a fishing boat for th...
Algeria fires mostly contained but more residents...
Wildfires which killed at least 38 people across northern Algeria have been largely contained, firefighters said Friday, but new b...
Greenland treads softly on tourism as icebergs mel...
As tourists flock to Greenland to take in its breathtaking icebergs and natural beauty, authorities are mulling ways to control cr...
Power shift for Mumbai's double-decker buses
India's entertainment capital is expanding its fleet of London-style red double-decker buses nearly a century after they made thei...
'Tornado of fire': Algeria forest blazes kill 38
Algerian firefighters battled Thursday to rein in forest fires that have ravaged large parts of the drought-hit North African coun...
World could save 700 mn tonnes of CO2 if people cy...
The world would save nearly 700 million tonnes of carbon pollution each year -- more than Canada's annual emissions -- if every pe...
Cyprus row over threat to dig up protected turtle...
A row has erupted in Cyprus after a community leader threatened to dig up the nests of protected turtles because his village is mi...
Wildfires in Portugal, Spain contained
Massive wildfires in Portugal and Spain were largely under control Thursday after forcing thousands from their homes and destroyin...
Huge Portugal fire 'under control' for now
Officials said a massive forest fire in Portugal was "under control" after raging for days, but more than 1,000 firefighters were...
Canada's Hudson Bay a summer refuge for thousands...
Half a dozen beluga whales dive and reemerge around tourist paddle boards in Canada's Hudson Bay, a handful of about 55,000 of the...
Hunting pythons in Florida, for profit and therapy
Enrique Galan is seldom happier than when he disappears deep into the Everglades to hunt down Burmese pythons, an invasive species...
Amazon tribe go behind the camera in Nat Geo film...
When Covid-19 reached Brazil's Amazon, and an indigenous tribe sealed off its borders, director Alex Pritz found an innovative way...
Biden signs major climate change, health care law
President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed into law a big climate change and health care spending bill, giving Democrats another boost...
Spain, Portugal battle to control huge wildfires
Spain and neighbouring Portugal fought against large wildfires on Tuesday, while three people were badly injured after their train...