Environment

Brazilian fisherman Jose Geraldo dos Santos uses a long pole to push his boat down the reddish-brown Paraopeba River, taking care not to splash...

Armed only with gloves and large sacks, park rangers and volunteers are battling the scourge of plastic waste blighting the idyllic Galapagos...

The weedkiller Roundup was a "substantial factor" in the cancer of a US man who developed a lump in his throat after decades of spraying his...

A Thai tycoon accused of poaching a black leopard at a wildlife sanctuary is due in court Tuesday for the highly anticipated verdict -- a case...

As much of Asia wheezes, coughs and sniffles its way through another smog season, one isolated and windswept corner of Australia is serving as...

Hundreds of thousands of young people skipped school across the globe on Friday to march through the streets for an international day of student...

In the space of just two weeks, two large icebergs broke off the Grey Glacier in Chilean Patagonia -- a sign of accelerating climate change,...

World leaders gathered in Kenya on Thursday to lend political muscle to UN environment talks, calling for "urgent action" to slow the destruction...

A quarter of all premature deaths and diseases worldwide are due to manmade pollution and environmental damage, the United Nations said Wednesday...

A young nun breathes deeply as she peers up at a statue of an angel bathed in softly coloured light streaming through a church, and as she exhales,...

Leaving the EU could cause "untold damage" to Britain's ecosystems and undermine its attempts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, green groups...

A new breeding ground for endangered hammerhead sharks has been found in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador's government said.This natural refuge...

US forces have not yet been ordered to pull out of Afghanistan despite President Donald Trump's plan to end involvement there, the commander...

Chinese authorities have prosecuted 11 people for smuggling $119 million worth of Mexican totoaba fish swim bladders, one of the country's biggest...

The owner of a grounded cargo ship that is leaking oil into World Heritage-listed waters in the Solomon Islands has apologised for the environmental...

A timeworn laboratory in Britain's Royal Botanic Gardens may not seem like the obvious epicentre of efforts to halt international illegal logging.Beakers...