By AFP/Akim Rezgui with Youcef BounabOn a barge hundreds of metres off the Kerkennah Islands in southern Tunisia, a group of students watches intently as Besma, a recovering sea turtle, shuffles towards the water and dives in.The barge, used to treat...

By AFP/Harumi OZAWAWhen nature calls, Masana Izawa has followed the same routine for more than 50 years: heading out to the woods in Japan, dropping his pants and doing as bears do."We survive by eating other living things. But you can give faeces ba...

By AFPGermany took further steps Monday to limit the potential spread of foot-and-mouth disease, as an outbreak of the virus threatened to hit the country's agricultural exports.The authorities were testing animals and limiting transport from an area...

By AFP/Anna PELEGRIAs the sun rises over the Amazonian island of Marajo, Renato Cordeiro laces up his boots, grabs his knife, and heads out to tap his rubber trees.Drop by drop, he collects the milky white sap, known as latex, that sustains him.The r...

By AFP/Sophie MAKRISAs snowflakes gently settled on his balcony solar panels on a cold winter's day, Berliner Jens Sax checked his smartphone to see how much electricity they were generating.The amount was modest now, said Sax, who admitted to being...

By AFP/Jean-Philippe LACOURClimate change fuelled natural disasters that caused $320 billion in losses last year, German reinsurance giant Munich Re said Thursday, warning that "our planet's weather machine is shifting to a higher gear".The amount of...

By AFP/Nathalie ALONSOThe oil spill in the Black Sea that has hit Russian and Crimean coasts since mid-December is particularly hard to clean up because it involves a "heavy" fuel that is less likely to float.Heavy fuel to blameThe Kerch Strait betwe...

By AFPA Kazakh court on Friday fined a consortium of oil companies over $6 million for excessive gas flaring from a giant oilfield under the Caspian Sea.The Central Asian country has stepped up fines on environmental violators in recent years, as it...

By AFP/Nina Larson with Nick Perry and Julien MivielleThe last two years saw average global temperatures exceed a critical warming limit for the first time, Europe's climate monitor said Friday, as the UN demanded "trail-blazing" climate action.While...

By AFP/Issam AHMEDUS greenhouse gas emissions barely decreased in 2024, leaving the world's largest economy off track to achieve its climate goals, according to an analysis released Thursday, as the incoming Trump administration looks set to double d...

By AFP/Anna PELEGRIGiovana Serrao was not home when a fire lit in a neighboring agricultural field got out of control and destroyed her acai palms on the island of Marajo in the Brazilian Amazon.Paulinho dos Santos remembers the dark nights in Novemb...

By AFPA quarter of freshwater animals, including fish, insects and crustaceans, are at high risk of extinction due to threats including pollution, dams and farming, according to a new study published on Wednesday.Freshwater -- including rivers, aquif...