Environment

A “dangerous” heat wave was taking hold of the southwestern United States on Tuesday, with punishing temperatures expected for the next week. Forecasters said the mercury could reach as high as 112 Fahrenheit (44 Celsius) in...

More than three million children are in need of humanitarian assistance and at increased risk of waterborne diseases, drowning and malnutrition due to the most severe flooding in Pakistan’s recent history, UNICEF warned today. UNICEF is...

According to a DW investigation, two-thirds of commitments to use less plastic fail or are abandoned. Here are some examples of how European food and beverage corporations violate their own agreements and some potential legal remedies....

Torrential rains have caused the death of 22 people in Chad since June, with more than 110,000 affected, a UN report has said. The rains had also destroyed more than 2,200 hectares (5,400 acres) of agricultural...

At Sreemangal in Moulvibazar, four ladies were killed when soil they were extracting from a hilltop of a tea garden crashed on them. Around 11:00am on Friday, the event happened in the Lakkhichhara Tea Garden in...

Scorching temperatures in eastern China have pushed up egg prices because hens are laying fewer in a hotter-than-usual summer, local media reported. Extreme weather has become more frequent owing to climate change, scientists say, and this...

Authorities said Tuesday that a forest fire in northern Morocco that was thought to have been ignited on purpose claimed the lives of three firefighters and critically injured two more. Late on Monday, as they were...

Simon Stiell, a former environment minister for Grenada, was chosen on Monday to succeed Mexican Patricia Espinosa as the head of the UN’s climate change agency. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), which oversees...

Bangladesh has had a demographic dividend, with a rise in the population of working age. The future artists of the nation are its youth. They play a significant role in the success and future of the...

Thousands of fish have washed up dead on the Oder river running through Germany and Poland, sparking warnings of an environmental disaster as residents are urged to stay away from the water. The fish floating by...