Microsoft Corp said Thursday it aims to remove more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits by 2030 and that by 2050, it hopes to have taken out enough to account for all the direct emissions the company has ever made.
Veganism should be recognzed as a protected belief covered by anti-discrimination law, a British zoologist will argue at a landmark legal hearing Thursday.
Coastal Maine has a lot of seaweed, and a fair number of cows. A group of scientists and farmers think that pairing the two could help unlock a way to cope with a warming world.
A Japanese government agency has proposed releasing radioactive water from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant into the environment, as storage space runs out.
Tens of thousands of holiday makers fled seaside towns on Australia’s east coast Thursday as bushfires approached, and military ships and helicopters began...
Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg was forced to defend herself in a Twitter spat with German railway service Deutsche Bahn (DB) on Sunday.
Air pollution forced schools to close on Sunday in parts of Iran including Tehran, as the capital lay under a thick cloud of smog considered hazardous to...
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Sunday he was "disappointed" by the results of a major U.N. climate summit in Madrid, calling it a missed...
At a sprawling rehabilitation centre on the outskirts of Kabul, dozens of dazed-looking drug addicts clamber out of police buses and shuffle toward the...
“I’m a straight woman who is no longer interested in having relationships with men.”
A computer program can identify breast cancer from routine scans with greater accuracy than human experts, researchers said in what they hoped could prove a...
Turkey will switch to plain packaging for cigarettes and tobacco products from Dec. 5, the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry said Tuesday, in a move aimed at...
Souraya’s credo may be “the fashion democracy,” but slipping into one of its sequined, feathered gowns is not for the faint of heart.
The smell of Cuban cigar smoke is what hits you first.
Boeing Co launched its new astronaut capsule Friday on an unmanned debut journey to the International Space Station, but the capsule had not yet reached the...
Google has told its Turkish business partners it will not be able to work with them on new Android phones to be released in Turkey, after the Turkish...
The view from Pavel Kacirek's apartment overlooking Prague's majestic Old Town Square should make it the dream home, but the hordes of tourists and clogged...
Saudi Arabia has opened its doors to tourists, but faces huge challenges to train an estimated one million staff needed to operate the sector, according to...
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon in November surged by 104 percent compared to the same month in 2018, according to official data released Saturday.
Rhino poaching in Namibia dropped to 41 individuals killed in all of 2019 so far, compared with nearly 72 during the same period last year, the Ministry of...
An environmental scientist who ran a waste collection service in Kenya's central town of Gilgil, she witnessed firsthand the mountains of plastic buckets,...
Campaigners denounced the United Nations climate process as a "parallel universe" Thursday, as vital talks make glacial progress despite the increasing global...
Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg accused political and business leaders of looking for loopholes to polish their image in the fight against climate...
Thousands of activists from around the world including teen activist Greta Thunberg hit the streets of Madrid Friday to demand urgent action on the climate...
Teenage activist Greta Thunberg pulled in on the overnight train to Madrid Friday, heading to a gathering of world leaders she says are failing to combat...
Parents from nearly 30 countries Thursday urged negotiators at a U.N. summit in Madrid to act swiftly to curb climate change for their sake of their children,...
Japan, the Philippines and Germany top a list of countries worst hit by climate-enhanced extreme weather last year, with Madagascar and India close behind,...