Environment

An oil spill that leaked out in a southern Louisiana bayou over the weekend has already killed wildlife and prompted a water conservation order for people in the area. The...

From Massachusetts to California, transportation departments are pursuing controversial plans to widen highways, expansions that are sure to compel more people to drive, thus increasing greenhouse gas emissions. Yet state...

A dirty Seine, a disastrous name mix-up and dreadful food — mon dieu! The Paris Olympics aren’t yet through their first weekend and already there have been a variety of...

Gofa Zone, Ethiopia – For days, retired teacher Meaza Tadelu has been holding on to hope that his missing wife may still be alive. Barefoot and distraught, the frail 66-year-old...

Some industrial fuel oil from a capsized Philippine tanker has started to leak into Manila Bay, the coastguard said, as it races to avoid an environmental catastrophe. The MT Terra...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at a deadly typhoon in the Indo-Pacific, Russian and Chinese warplanes near North America, and Ethiopia’s devastating landslides. Welcome back to World...

Sunday’s record as the hottest day ever recorded on Earth lasted only one day.  According to preliminary data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, the global average temperature...

The U.S. is making deep cuts in its greenhouse gas emissions as clean energy booms — but not enough to hit the target it set under the Paris Climate Agreement,...

In April 1929, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) met in Lausanne, Switzerland, to grant the hosting rights for the 1932 Winter Olympic Games. The United States was the frontrunner, and...

With negotiations to adopt rules and regulations for commercial deep-sea mining in international waters resuming this week at the International Seabed Authority (ISA), African countries have an extremely important role...