Environment

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...

Washington (AFP) - Shark bites and fatalities ticked up worldwide last year, with Australia accounting for a disproportionate number of deaths resulting from heightened contact with humans even as the...

Washington (AFP) - Solar panels will be installed on the roof of the Pentagon as part of a push for clean energy at federal facilities, the US Department of Energy...

Paris (AFP) - The world added 50 percent more renewable energy capacity in 2023 over the previous year but more is needed in the battle against climate change, the International...