Environment

Washington (United States) (AFP) - US President Donald Trump on Friday issued a proclamation reopening commercial fishing in protected waters off the Atlantic coast, in a region renowned for its...

Paris (France) (AFP) - The world is entering an era of "global water bankruptcy" with rivers, lakes and aquifers depleting faster than nature can replenish them, a United Nations research...

Washington (United States) (AFP) - President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday issued a new rule to fast-track deep-sea mining in international waters, bringing the United States a step closer to...

Washington (United States) (AFP) - Don't say the c-word. Global temperatures soared in 2025, but a NASA statement published Wednesday alongside its latest benchmark annual report makes no reference to...

Brussels (Belgium) (AFP) - The planet logged its third hottest year on record in 2025, extending a run of unprecedented heat, with no relief expected in 2026, global climate monitors...

Belém (Brazil) (AFP) - Nations sealed a modest agreement at the UN climate summit in the Brazilian Amazon on Saturday as many countries swallowed weaker terms on a fossil fuel...

Fullerton (United States) (AFP) - Randy Baxter holds on for dear life as a simulator shows him just how powerful a magnitude 7 earthquake can be. "It was much stronger...

Paris (AFP) - British primatologist Jane Goodall imitated chimpanzees, sat with them in trees and shared their bananas during her trail-blazing research in Tanzania into the apes' true nature. Acclaimed...

Washington (AFP) - There are few symbols of the American West more iconic than the bison -- shaggy giants that once roamed in the tens of millions before being nearly...

Washington (AFP) - Global air pollution is worsening, with the United States and Canada experiencing the sharpest increases due to record-breaking, climate-supercharged wildfires that are undoing decades of progress, a...