Nations Friday committed to "significantly reduce" single-use plastics over the next decade, in a watered-down pledge after several richer nations objected to deeper cuts in the polluting products.
Famous for his high speed car chases, James Bond is hardly an obvious tree hugger. But the world's best known spy has apparently gone green, with British media reporting Thursday that he is switching to an electric Aston Martin.
Two new icebergs have broken off the Grey Glacier in Chile's Patagonia in recent weeks, amid fears that such ruptures are becoming more frequent, scientists told Reuters.
Explorers are set to deliver the first live video broadcast from deep below an ocean’s surface. Early this week, a submersible is expected to dive to 300 meters off the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean and send images to a satellite transmitter on the mother ship.
The cows and horses would have come for the last blades of grass.
As much of Asia wheezes, coughs and sniffles its way through another smog season, one isolated and windswept corner of Australia is serving as the global...
Earth is sick with multiple and worsening environmental ills killing millions of people yearly, a new U.N. report says.
Countries from around the world set their sights Monday on a pivotal deal to curb plastic waste, a source of long-term pollution and worsening contamination...
Barefoot in a blue striped shirt, Ahmad al-Hamadi walks from school to a cemetery in the Yemeni capital where he works to help his family survive.
The scorching sun is finally beginning to dip on a late Saturday afternoon in Juba, where a small group gathers to watch a tense battle between two of their...
Scientists are closing in on a way to help young boys undergoing cancer treatment preserve their future fertility - and the proof is the first monkey born...
For breast cancer survivors, the risk of tumors returning casts a long shadow, with recurrence possible up to two decades after a diagnosis.
With snow covering the mountains ever since the first big storms of the season rolled over Lebanon around New Year’s Eve
Hundreds of civilians and military personnel braved storms earlier this month to compete in “Alpha Patrouille des Cedres,” a backcountry ski race around the...
Remote-controlled robot jockeys lined up at a major camel racing festival in northeastern Egypt, as owners came under pressure from campaigns to stop using...
Google Tuesday unveiled a streaming platform called Stadia that allows video game play on any internet-connected device, eliminating the need for games...
When California legalized recreational marijuana use in 2016, Gene Grozovskiy decided he would show tourists the big change behind the scenes. Now he’s seeing...
Swimming with the famous golden jellyfish in Palau can be put back on the bucket list following a two-year ban, but bathers may be stung with a hefty price...
A new breeding ground for endangered hammerhead sharks has been found in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador’s government said.
A shadow of her former self after years of war, 11-year-old Arabian mare Karen stands quietly as a Syrian vet gently pushes a syringe into her pale grey neck.
A 215-centimeter sea creature that washed ashore in Southern California has been identified as a hoodwinker sunfish, a recently identified rare species...
For almost a century, the inhabitants of Robinson Crusoe - named for literature’s most famous castaway - have known that their island’s fragile ecosystem...
Evidence for man-made global warming has reached a "gold standard" level of certainty, adding pressure for cuts in greenhouse gases to limit rising...