By AFP/Julie CapelleCharles Kibaki Muchiri traced the water trickling across the surface of the Lewis Glacier with his fingers, illustrating how quickly climate change is melting the huge ice blocks from Africa's second-highest mountain.For nearly 25...

By AFP/Amélie BOTTOLLIER-DEPOISThe world's oceans harbor a cultural heritage of sunken ships, remains of those lost in the transatlantic slave trade and Indigenous islanders' spiritual ties to the sea that must be protected, NGOs and native peoples s...

By AFP/Monique NGO MAYAGThe waters of Senegal's Lake Retba are back to their famous pink hues three years after floods washed away their rosy tinge -- and businessfolk and tourists are thrilled.No sooner had the news hit social media when Julie Barri...

By AFPA German court on Monday banned airline giant Lufthansa from saying in its advertisements that passengers could "compensate" for carbon emissions from flights, finding that the claims were "misleading".Judges in the western city of Cologne side...

By AFP/David SALAZARKidnapped from his family as an infant, then raised by a drug lord before ending up in a Colombian zoo, Yoko the chimpanzee has lived the last two years of his life alone.He lost his last friend, Chita, in 2023 when she escaped fr...

By AFP/Sue Han KIMResidents of a UNESCO-listed village were ordered to evacuate while a historic Buddhist temple was burned to the ground Tuesday as South Korea scrambled to contain worsening wildfires.Blazes tearing across the country's southeast ha...

By AFPThousands of people on boats and on land staged a "surf and turf" protest in northwest Spain on Saturday against a planned textile factory and the reopening of a copper mine.Protesters in the coastal city of A Pobra do Caraminal, in Spain's Gal...

By AFPThe leaders of 22 Indigenous peoples from five continents held prayers for nature in Chile on Sunday at the end of a 46-day pilgrimage around the world.The "Indigenous sages" carried out an ancestral ceremony of the Anasazi people, who lived in...

By AFPEcuador found a new leak in a fuel pipeline in the Amazon region on Saturday and dubbed it an "attack," days after another spill affected hundreds of thousands of people.The energy ministry did not report the size of the new spill nor say wheth...

By AFP/David SALAZARBent over his cellphone on the terrace of his Bogota apartment, Colombia's "Lord of the Fruit" describes the flavors, textures, and potential uses of rare species to thousands of social media followers.Gian Paolo Daguer, a 47-year...

By AFP/Huw GRIFFITHFor nearly 70 years scientists have been probing, measuring, drilling and generally getting to know South Cascade Glacier in the US Northwest, developing and honing skills now used worldwide.Generations of glaciologists have studie...

By AFPPresident Donald Trump's administration advanced another major US natural gas export project on Wednesday, handing oil companies a win the same day as a White House meeting with industry executives.The Energy Department approved an export autho...