Environment

Much of Venice was under water on Wednesday night after the highest tide in 50 years ripped through the historic Italian city, beaching gondolas, trashing hotels and sending tourists fleeing through rapidly rising waters. The government...

The breathtaking reds, yellows and purples of the Mesoamerican Reef have been turning sickly white, leading researchers on a desperate hunt to understand and fight the mysterious disease killing the Caribbean’s corals. In a little over...

The decline in Arctic sea ice sparked by global warming is already forcing animals, including the polar bear, to adapt or die — but now scientists warn it could also be exposing them to new, deadly...

Firefighters in eastern Australia were on Sunday assessing damage from ferocious bushfires that have devastated communities and rushing to prepare for “bad, if not worse” conditions expected to flare in the coming days. Catastrophic fires have...

Australia announced a large aid package to help drought-parched communities Thursday, as the government faced allegations it has bungled the response to a crisis made worse by its own climate policies. Prime Minister Scott Morrison unveiled...

The very severe cyclonic storm ‘Bulbul’ over west-central Bay and adjoining east-central Bay moved northwards, intensifying further and now lies over northwest Bay and adjoining west-central Bay. It was centered at 6 pm today about 620...

EU countries need to adopt policies to boost recycling, to help tackle growing waste, particularly from plastic and electronics, according to two reports by the European Environment Agency (EEA) published Monday. “The EU must find circular...

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg on Tuesday refused to accept an environmental award, saying the climate movement needed people in power to start to “listen” to “science” and not awards. The young climate activist, who has...

A Dutch non-profit group committed to ridding the world’s waters of plastic, Saturday unveiled their latest invention, a floating garbage-collection barge called “The Interceptor”. It is built by The Ocean Cleanup, who say it will “close...

Seven people have been killed and 11 injured in floods after heavy rain lashed northeastern parts of Saudi Arabia, Al-Ekhbariya state television reported Monday. Rescue services in the northeastern city of Hafer al-Batin, about 100 kilometres...