Environment and nature

JAKARTA Indonesian authorities raised the alert level for the highest volcano on Java island, saying Mount Semeru could blow up again after a sudden eruption earlier this month left 48 people dead and 36 missing in villages that were…

MANILA Three people were reported dead in the Philippines on Friday after a strong typhoon engulfed villages in floods, tore off roofs, toppled trees and knocked out power in southern and central island provinces, where more than 300,000…

RENO, Nev Conservationists are suing three federal agencies over the adequacy of an environmental review the government has said satisfies requirements to resume killing coyotes, mountain lions and other wildlife in federally protected…

GENEVA The U.N. weather agency said Tuesday it has certified a 38-degree Celsius (100.4 Fahrenheit) reading in the Russian town of Verkhoyansk last year as the highest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic, the latest in a string of…

GLASGOW, Scotland Governments and large investors introduced fresh steps Wednesday to pour trillions of dollars into curbing world warming, reflecting the economic world’s developing embody of efforts to battle climate change as each a…

LUCKNOW, India At least 22 people have died and others are missing in floods triggered by heavy rains in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, officials said Tuesday. The Indian Meteorological Department predicted that heavy to…

NEW DELHI Indian authorities suspended internet services and barred political leaders from getting into a northern city Monday to calm tensions after 9 people have been killed in a deadly escalation of a yearlong demonstration in…

KAMOURASKA, Quebec When the pandemic descended, the boundless vistas and insane sunsets of Kamouraska became a distant, unattainable dream for this bicyclist from Virginia. this is often one of Quebec’s most beautiful places and, for me,…

The two biggest economies and largest carbon polluters in the world announced separate financial attacks on climate change Tuesday. Chinese President Xi Jinping said his country will no longer fund coal-fired power plants abroad,…

BARCELONA, Spain Climate change could push quite 200 million people to go away their homes within the next three decades and build migration hot spots unless urgent action is taken to scale back global emissions and bridge the…

HOUMA, La. The Covid pandemic claimed Kendall Duthu's work as a cook at a jambalaya café. Then, at that point Storm, Ida guaranteed his home. The 26-year-old resident of Dulac, Louisiana, is presently living out of his vehicle with…

SAO JOAO DA BARRA, Brazil Many years prior, Júlia María de Assis thought sometime she would assume control over the lodging her dad had started working in Atafona, a shoreline locale in Brazil's northern Rio de Janeiro state. However,…

BANGKOK Thailand is ramping up efforts to curb trade in wildlife to help reduce the risk of future pandemics, officials said Thursday, though it was unclear whether that would mean an end to all such sales in the wildlife trafficking…

THACKERVILLE, Okla. Federal authorities have seized 68 big cats from an animal park in Oklahoma featured in Netflix’s “Tiger King.” The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday that the seizure of the federally protected lions,…

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. A group of scientists urged the Biden administration Thursday to restore legal protections for gray wolves, saying their removal earlier this year was premature and that states are allowing too many of the animals to…

PARIS Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Paris and other French cities on Sunday to call for more ambitious measures in the fight against climate change. The nationwide protests come after the lower house of parliament…

BERLIN Germany, home to the Autobahn and a powerful motor industry, wants its citizens to spend less time driving and more time cycling to help save the planet. The government on Wednesday agreed a new national cycling strategy to…