Environment and nature

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…

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,…