Environment

On Tuesday, an unusually strong cold front hit Cuba’s northern coast as white-capped waves flooded the streets with seawater, causing isolated power outages and littering

China has opened its research station in the Ross Sea, the official Xinhua news agency reported, marking the first time China has started work at

Spain recorded its warmest January since records began in 1961, with the average temperature last month reaching 8.4 degrees Celsius, 0.4 degrees above the previous

More than 350,000 homes and businesses in California were without power on Monday after the storm hit the state with heavy rains and hurricane-force winds,

The European Commission is poised on Tuesday to recommend that the EU cut net greenhouse gas emissions by 90 per cent by 2040. The target

Spain is investing 467 million euros ($502 million) in two desalination plants on the Catalan coast as the northeastern region struggles with a three-year drought.

Firefighters in central Chile battled brutal wildfires on Sunday that have so far killed 112 people and destroyed entire neighbourhoods. Authorities say hundreds of people

At least 20 people have died after days of heavy rains in parts of the southern Philippines, provincial emergency agencies said on Monday. Thirteen people

A huge riverine atmospheric storm brought rain and fierce winds across California on Sunday, leaving devastation and danger in its wake. Howling winds tore down

Wildfires raging in central Chile have killed at least 51 people and the death toll is likely to rise further, officials said, as emergency services