By AFPThe European aviation industry is awash with misleading climate-related claims, consumer groups said Tuesday, over a year after the EU launched a probe into airlines' greenwashing.An analysis of 17 air carriers found many misled passengers by s...

By AFPWork on a giant carbon capture and storage (CCS) site in Stockholm began Thursday, with the facility expected to be operational in 2028.The new plant will have the capacity to capture and store more than 800,000 tonnes of CO2 per year, which is...

By AFPThe deadly effects of extreme heat are a growing risk to people, reinsurance giant Swiss Re said Thursday, adding that heat killed more people than earthquakes, floods and hurricanes combined."Up to half a million people globally succumb to the...

By AFP/Nick PERRY and Antoine AGASSENowhere is humanity's exploitation of the oceans more starkly illustrated than the Pacific Ocean, where small island nations are fighting to outlast a crisis not of their making.The islands are besieged by rising s...

By AFP/Dylan GAMBAThere is a constant hum around Ethiopia's enormous Lake Dembel -- the sound of its water steadily being sucked out by pumps.The pumps irrigate farms all around the lake, which is four times the size of Manhattan, and are vital for h...

By AFPCommunities across Asia's Himalayan Hindu Kush region face heightened disaster risks this monsoon season with temperatures and rainfall expected to exceed normal levels, experts warned on Thursday.Temperatures are expected to be up to two degre...

By AFP/Akshata KAPOORBritish strawberry farmers say this year's record-breaking spring sunshine and warm days have yielded the cream of the crop, with a bigger and sweeter harvest than usual.Long periods of sun and cool nights provided "perfect" cond...

By AFP/Facundo Fernández BarrioApartment blocks and shopping centers sprout like mushrooms around a wild cat sanctuary that shelters pumas recovering from injuries suffered at the hands of mankind in Brazil's Sao Paolo state.The Mata Ciliar refuge st...

By AFP/Mumen Khatib and Fadel SennaAfter Muhammed Sajjad moved from India to the United Arab Emirates a decade ago, he missed his native Kerala's monsoon season, so he embarked on an unlikely quest: finding rain in the desert.Using satellite imagery,...

By AFP/John MKHIZESouth African President Cyril Ramaphosa met Friday with survivors of devastating floods that killed at least 86 people in the impoverished Eastern Cape province, blaming the "catastrophic disaster" on climate change.Ramaphosa toured...

By AFP/Nick PERRY and Antoine AGASSEA global oceans summit wrapped up Friday with world leaders taking major steps toward marine protection and vowing a showdown when nations meet to negotiate rules for deep-sea mining next month.But as a cacophony o...

By AFP/Camille BAS-WOHLERTGreenland's ice sheet melted 17 times faster than the past average during a May heatwave that also hit Iceland, the scientific network World Weather Attribution (WWA) said in a report Wednesday.The Arctic region is on the fr...