By AFPThe Slovak government has decided to allow the consumption of brown bear meat, angering environmentalists who on Wednesday slammed the move as absurd and giving a boost to poachers.Slovakia's nationalist government last month approved the culli...

By AFPIraq's water reserves are at their lowest in 80 years after a dry rainy season, a government official said Sunday, as its share from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers shrinks.Water is a major issue in the country of 46 million people undergoing a...

By AFP/Fabrice Coffrini, with Christophe VogtSwiss authorities said Thursday that rock and ice piles from a collapsed glacier that destroyed a village were preventing emergency services from working, but that they were cautiously optimistic no more h...

By AFP/Michel COMTEMore than 17,000 people in Canada's western Manitoba province were being evacuated on Wednesday as the region experienced its worst start to a wildfire season in years."The Manitoba government has declared a province-wide state of...

By AFP/Peter EsserA German court on Wednesday rejected a climate case brought by a Peruvian farmer against energy giant RWE, but set a potentially important precedent on polluters' liability for their carbon emissions.The judge in the case ruled that...

By AFP/Agnès PEDREROThe United Nations warned on Wednesday that there is a 70 percent chance that average warming from 2025 to 2029 would exceed the 1.5 degrees Celsius international benchmark.The planet is therefore expected to remain at historic le...

By AFP/Ambre BERTOCCHIParts of northern Europe have seen their worst drought in decades in recent weeks, with farmers from Scotland to the Netherlands fearing the dry spell will dent harvests if it continues.Water shortages can stunt the growth of cr...

By AFP/Adrien de CalanThe European Union is on track to reach its 2030 climate targets, Brussels said on Wednesday, but uncertainty remains over the bloc's ambitions to cut greenhouse gas emissions much further by 2040.The European Commission expects...

By AFP/Winifred LarteyThe salty wind blows across the ruins of Ghana's Fort Prinzenstein, where thick walls once held thousands of enslaved Africans before their journey across the Atlantic.Now, only a shell remains -- a crumbling monument teetering...

By AFPIndia's coastguard raced on Monday to contain an oil spill from a container ship with hazardous cargo that sank off the southern coast a day earlier, Kerala's state government said.The Liberian-flagged MSC ELSA 3, listed as a 184-metre (603-foo...

By AFP/Issam Ahmed and Charlotte CausitAntarctica's icy wilderness is warming rapidly under the weight of human-driven climate change, yet a new study points to an unlikely ally in the fight to keep the continent cool: penguin poo.Published Thursday...

By AFP/Dylan GAMBAAt a clinic in Ethiopia's capital, a donkey is complaining as a vet tries to trim his nails.Ethiopia is thought to have the most donkeys in the world -- one in five of the global total according to the United Nations -- and they for...