Editorial Team
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Bangkok (AFP) Sept 2, 2018 - As Bangkok prepares to host climate-change talks, the sprawling city of more than 10 million is itself under siege from the environment, with dire forecasts warning it could be partially submerged in just over a decade.
Jun 26, 2026
Mumbai (AFP) Sept 7, 2017 - When Surekha Chiplunkar's home started to flood during recent heavy rains in Mumbai she knew exactly what to do - she had to; catastrophe comes every year and no one else was going to help.
Jun 26, 2026
Paris (AFP) Sept 24, 2018 - Scientists said Monday they had succeeded for the first time in wiping out an entire population of malaria-carrying mosquitos in the lab using a gene editing tool to programme their extinction.
Jun 26, 2026
Washington (AFP) Sept 11, 2017 - Electric car maker Tesla helped its owners fleeing the path of Hurricane Irma, offering a complementary boost to the car battery's range to allow them to travel further before needing to recharge.
Jun 26, 2026
Portland (AFP) Sept 2, 2015 - The Portland Mamas listserv was on fire this summer. But the heated debates were not about schools and strollers in Oregon's largest city.
Jun 26, 2026
Mexico City (AFP) Sept 27, 2017 - An earthquake releases energy that has accumulated for years between the Earth's tectonic plates.
Jun 26, 2026
Paris - Oct. 25, 2000 - Could some countries vanish beneath rising seas? Are melting icecaps responsible for ever-higher sea levels? And above all, are these changes man-made, and preventable, or part of a natural cycle? These are the questions that could soon be answered by scientists using data from ESA's ERS-1 and 2 and Envisat satellites.
Jun 26, 2026
Paris (AFP) Sept 29, 2014 - Wildlife numbers have plunged by more than half in just 40 years as Earth's human population has nearly doubled, a survey of over 3,000 vertebrate species revealed on Tuesday.
Jun 26, 2026
Marseille (AFP) Sept 4, 2021 - Nearly 30 percent of the 138,374 species assessed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List are at risk of extinction, the global conservation body reported Saturday.
Jun 26, 2026
Libreville (AFP) Sept 25, 2017 - Wildlife guards funded by the WWF and other conservation groups have carried out systematic abuses against tribes in central Africa, an activist group claimed on Monday.
Jun 26, 2026
Los Angeles (AFP) Sept 17, 2014 - As many as 6,000 firefighters were battling Tuesday a wave of wildfires raging across California, which is gripped by a historic drought and near-record temperatures.
Jun 26, 2026
Moscow (AFP) Sept 4, 2015 - Raging wildfires have turned the shores of the world's largest freshwater lake in Siberia into an inferno, threatening the health and livelihood of locals and raising questions about Russia's ability to protect its natural heritage.
Jun 26, 2026
Los Angeles, United States (AFP) Sept 9, 2024 - Wildfires fueled by soaring temperatures in the western United States have scorched thousands of acres, forcing hundreds of families to flee, US officials said Monday.
Jun 26, 2026
Middletown, United States (AFP) Sept 15, 2015 - Wildfires sweeping across California are threatening the US state's famed Sequoia trees, with firefighters scrambling to protect the national treasures.
Jun 26, 2026
St. Helena, United States (AFP) Sept 28, 2020 - Thousands of people were forced to flee their homes in California's Napa Valley Monday as wildfires ripped through the region's world-famous wine country.
Jun 26, 2026
Geneva (AFP) Sept 5, 2025 - Wildfires are releasing a witches' brew of pollutants that can end up wrecking air quality a continent away from the blaze, the UN's weather and climate agency said Friday.
Jun 26, 2026
