Environment

Houston (AFP) - Rainfall offered some reprieve from the largest wildfire in the history of Texas, officials said Friday, though dry, gusty conditions were expected to return this weekend for...

Houston (AFP) - Texas emergency crews were struggling Thursday to contain the largest wildfire in the US state's history, with the blaze leaving at least one person dead and scorching...

Fort Lauderdale (United States) (AFP) - A ship powered by renewable energy, including hydrogen produced onboard, is docked in the southeastern US state of Florida this week as it prepares...

Beijing (AFP) - China said Thursday it had signed agreements to send pandas to a zoo in San Diego, after nearly all the beloved black-and-white animals on loan in the...

Paris (AFP) - Baleen whales have evolved a special voice box to help them to sing underwater -- but this could also make them uniquely vulnerable to being drowned out...

Miami (AFP) - Coral reefs off the Florida Keys islands are struggling to recover from last summer's record-breaking heat wave, new data showed Thursday, in another sign of the devastating...

Clark (Philippines) (AFP) - NASA has kicked off a series of marathon flights in Asia with the world's biggest flying laboratory, in an ambitious mission to improve the models that help to...

Washington (AFP) - Certain plants have flowers that open only in the evening, and depend on nocturnal pollinators such as moths to thrive. But a new paper published in Science...

Paris (AFP) - Earth has endured 12 consecutive months of temperatures 1. 5C hotter than the pre-industrial era for the first time on record, Europe's climate monitor said Thursday, in...

Mexico City (AFP) - Population numbers of endangered monarch butterflies have fallen sharply at their wintering sites in Mexico, experts said Wednesday, blaming the "sobering" drop primarily on climate change and...