Environment

Geneva (AFP) - The amount of dust in the air eased slightly in 2023, the United Nations said Friday, warning that poor environmental management was fuelling sand and dust storms....

Bogotá (AFP) - Colombia's Constitutional Court on Wednesday annulled a controversial carbon credit deal in the Amazon rainforest, which six local tribes said had been signed without their consent. Indigenous...

Washington (AFP) - A rare species of tree cactus has gone extinct in Florida, in what is believed to be the first species lost to sea level rise in the...

Lima (AFP) - The preserved body of an American mountaineer -- who disappeared 22 years ago while scaling a snowy peak in Peru -- has been found after being exposed...

Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) - Hollywood stars aren't the only celebrities who live in the hills around Los Angeles -- Southern California's mountain lions also make their homes there...

Los Angeles (AFP) - The US state of Hawaii has reached an historic agreement in response to litigation by youth activists, promising to speed up the de-carbonization of its transport...

United Nations (United States) (AFP) - Four in every five people want their country to strengthen its commitments to addressing climate change, according to a global poll of 75,000 participants...

Los Angeles (AFP) - California firefighters on Monday tackled the state's biggest blaze of the year so far, as fears intensify over ominous conditions forecast for the hot, dry months...

Washington (AFP) - Pacific coast gray whales have shrunk in length an astonishing 13 percent since 2000, adding to evidence that climate change and other human activities are making marine...

Los Angeles (AFP) - Pollution from California wildfires killed more than 52,000 people in a decade, a new study claimed Friday, as the western United States girds for a hot...