An Egyptian official says his Red Sea province will impose a ban on disposable plastics, prohibiting everything from single use straws to plastic bags in an effort to fight pollution.
A starving whale with 40 kilos (88 pounds) of plastic trash in its stomach has died after being washed ashore in the Philippines, activists said Monday, calling it one of the worst cases of poisoning they have seen.
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.
A suspected rhino poacher was trampled to death by an elephant and his body was devoured by lions in South Africa’s Kruger National Park, officials said Monday.
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.
Earth, meet Polo.
A burgeoning movement to outlaw fur is seeking to make its biggest statement yet in the fashion mecca of New York City.
They were born without a working germ-fighting system, every infection a threat to their lives.
Can a genetic test identify newborns at risk of becoming severely obese by middle age? Researchers say they have come up with one, and that it might allow...
Stands promoting spiritual practices, environmental causes and health food were out in force at the Body and Soul Expo at Beirut’s Seaside Pavilion this...
A group of businesswomen and activists from all over the globe met in Lebanon this weekend for the second edition of Lebanon’s women-only classic car rally,...
Four decades after R2-D2 delivered a vital message from Princess Leia in the hit movie "Star Wars," a French supermarket group plans to use robots inspired by...
Using a global network of telescopes to see “the unseeable,” an international scientific team Wednesday announced a milestone in astrophysics
As spring flower fields around the Netherlands burst into bloom, painting the countryside with dazzling swathes of red, white, and blue, a modern day tulip...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.