Lima: Look out, blue whale -- there's a new contender for your heavyweight title. A newly discovered whale that lived nearly 40 million...
Lima: Look out, blue whale -- there's a new contender for your heavyweight title. A newly discovered whale that lived nearly 40 million...
New York: With air conditioner demand surging, scientists are looking for ways to improve the energy efficiency of cooling systems and limit damaging...
Washington: They are ubiquitous in the United States, controversial in Europe and coveted in South Asia. As heatwaves intensify across the world, air...
Almería, Spain: Ongoing droughts and an over-exploitation of land for both agriculture and industry have stoked fears in Spain over the creeping spread...
Wellington: Five extinct species have been included on the ballot to find New Zealand's most popular feathered friend as competition organisers hope to...
Key West, United States: Billy Costello walks the deck of a ship wearing his scuba gear and fins, as well as a prosthetic...
You could be forgiven for thinking humans are helpless against extreme heat. All over the world, record high temperatures are raising concerns about...
Malchin, Germany: Amid the fields of northern Germany a vast expanse of bulrushes has been planted to form one of Europe's largest reclaimed...
Zagreb: Hordes of buzzing but sterile mosquitoes are being let loose in Zagreb as Croatia gets ahead of worries that climate change could...
Geneva: The world should prepare to face increasingly intense heatwaves, the United Nations warned on Tuesday, as countries across the Northern Hemisphere reeled...
Washington: Jets of red gas bursting into the cosmos, and a glowing cave of dust: NASA marked a year of discovery by the...
As a warming Earth simmered into worrisome new territory this week, scientists said the unofficial records being set for average planetary temperature were...
Last month was the warmest June of the past three decades globally, with several places in western Europe hitting all-time records for the...
Paris: Tuesday was the hottest day ever recorded as the global average temperature leaped to a record high for the second day in...
Geneva: The United Nations on Tuesday warned the world to prepare for the effects of El Nino, saying the weather phenomenon which triggers...
Paris: David Smith, a retired print technician from the north of England, was pursuing his hobby of looking for interesting shapes when he...
Paris: The UN's cultural agency UNESCO welcomed on Tuesday commitments from Australia to protect the Great Barrier Reef, with the government pledging 4.4...
Hamburg: At a red-brick factory in the German port city of Hamburg, cocoa bean shells go in one end, and out the other...
