A grueling two-year drought in Kenya has wiped out 2% of the world’s rarest zebra species and increased elephant deaths as well, as the climate crisis takes its toll on the east African nation’s wildlife.
Read articleAustralia plans to halt the loss of any more species and end its status as "the mammal extinction capital of the world", its government says.
Read articleFridays for Future ‘strikes’ in about 450 places demanded rich countries pay for damage from global heating
Read articleThe dugong, a gentle marine mammal that has frequented China's southern waters for hundreds of years, has become functionally extinct in the country, a new study said on Wednesday.
Read articleA brutal summer has caused havoc for many in rural Spain, but one unexpected side-effect of the country's worst drought in decades has delighted archaeologists - the emergence of a prehistoric stone circle in a dam whose waterline has receded.
Read articleClimate change and unsustainable water management are leaving lakes dried up all over the Middle East and beyond, but the Israeli government is hopeful it has a solution: It plans to pump water from the Mediterranean sea, take the salt out of it and send it across the country to top up the lake when needed.
Read articleChinese planes are firing rods into the sky to bring more rainfall to its crucial Yangtze River, which has dried up in parts, as swaths of the nation fall into drought and grapple with the worst heat wave on record.
Read articleA "monster" wildfire raged for a third day in southwestern France on Thursday, ravaging forests and forcing 10,000 people to evacuate their homes.
Read articleAntarctica's coastal glaciers are shedding icebergs more rapidly than nature can replenish the crumbling ice, doubling previous estimates of losses from the world's largest ice sheet over the past 25 years, a satellite analysis showed on Wednesday.
Read articleScientists in France found that the stress of increasing temperatures prematurely aged the DNA of lizards
Read articleBirdwatcher ‘overcome with emotion’ on spotting the Santa Marta sabrewing, only third time it has been documented
Read articleBirds from every continent except Antarctica have been photographed nesting or tangled in our rubbish.
Read articleDespite growing pleas from climate change activists, the Democratic Republic of Congo says it is moving forward with its plans to auction off a vast majority of oil and gas drilling blocks located in the country's rainforest and peatland.
Read articleThe record-breaking temperature, recorded around 1 p.m. local time, was not expected to arrive until July 2050, according to climate scientists.
Read articleResidents and holidaymakers have fled towns and villages in France as fires are whipped up by high winds and tinder-dry conditions in several countries in Europe.
Read articleAmbitious $2.8m scheme hopes to eliminate damaging species from ecologically significant Rakiura/Stewart Island
Read articleTokyo June heatwave worst since 1875 as power supply creaks under strain
Read articleEcologists raise concern over chicks’ attempts to escape high temperatures during one of earliest heatwaves on record
Read articleShortening of telomeres accelerates ageing process, research shows – a ‘pernicious silent threat’
Read articleCity abandons €72m scheme to develop area and create huge garden in time for 2024 Olympics
Read articleCalls for action as decline is seen as evidence of harm caused by climate crisis, pollution and fish farming
Read articleThe Saint Louis Zoo has welcomed two adorable -- and incredibly rare -- bundles of joy: Anya and Irina, critically endangered Amur leopard cubs.
Read articleThe ocean is also now its most acidic in at least 26,000 years as it absorbs and reacts with more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Read articleThe area of tropical forest destroyed in 2021 was enough to cover the entire island of Cuba, and sent more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as India does in an entire year from burning fossil fuels, according to an analysis published Thursday.
Read articleA climate activist who lit himself on fire on Earth Day outside the United States Supreme Court Building has died, according to reports.
Read articleClimate change activists forced the closure of a main square in central Paris on Saturday to protest against the environmental programmes put forward by France's remaining presidential candidates.
Read articleWater shortages leading to rising salt concentrations and sandstorms are eroding world’s ancient sites
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