Environment

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...

Tonalea (United States) (AFP) - Workmen plant electricity poles in the rust-orange earth of the Navajo Nation and run cables to Christine Shorty's house -- finally giving her power against...

Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) - Fast-spreading wildfires have forced the evacuation of part of the Grand Canyon, with the US National Park Service ordering visitors and residents away from...

Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) - Spreading wildfires forced the evacuation on Friday of part of the famed Grand Canyon, with the US National Park Service appealing for visitors to...