The Australian government committed A$50 million ($34.58 million) to an emergency wildlife recovery program on Monday, calling the bushfires crisis engulfing the country “an ecological disaster” that threatens several species, including koalas and rock wallabies.
Huge wildfires have razed more...
Authorities in Australia have urged tens of thousands of people to move to safety amid concerns that bushfires will burn out of control this weekend.
"If you don't need to be in the area, you need to leave," warned New...
A French appeal court has thrown out a charge alleging that the industrial giant Lafarge was guilty of "complicity in crimes against humanity" over its involvement in Syria.
However, the cement manufacturer remains accused of financing terrorist groups including ISIS,...
Hurricane Dorian, the second-strongest Atlantic storm on record, pounded the Bahamian islands of Great Abaco and Grand Bahama on Sunday night and was forecast to move dangerously close to Florida in the next two days, U.S. forecasters said.
Hazards for...
Brazil’s Foreign Ministry on Monday ordered its ambassadors in Europe and other G7 countries not to take vacation for the next two weeks in order to coordinate a diplomatic response to global concerns over the fires raging in the...
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday a deal to provide "technical and financial help" was close.
Leaders from the US, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, the UK and Canada continue their meeting in the seaside town of Biarritz on Monday.
It...
The development of offshore deposits discovered in the Black Sea is necessary in order to avoid the significant increase of dependence on gas imports and represents a sine-qua-non condition to be able to rely on natural gas in the...
Nestle has unveiled recyclable, biodegradable paper wrapping on its Yes! snack bars – in a move it claims is a world first.
The announcement came as a major step forward in its drive to make all its packaging reusable or...
There will be approximately 519.7 million people living in the European Union by 2020, according to United Nations forecasts.
The study analysed the change in each country's population since 1950 to make their predictions.
Population in nearly all EU member states...
The explosion that destroyed a SpaceX astronaut taxi in April “no doubt” delays NASA’s drive to return Americans to the International Space Station from U.S. soil later this year, the U.S. space agency’s chief said on Tuesday.
But NASA Administrator...