Environment

Indian rescue teams are struggling to reach flood-hit areas in the northeastern state of Sikkim, where more than 140 people are missing, as the region

Singapore’s air quality fell to unhealthy levels, official measurements show, as forest fires in neighbouring Indonesia increased. Transboundary haze is a perennial problem in Southeast

The European Union on Thursday agreed a deal to reduce the use of HFCs in refrigerators and air conditioners, part of the EU’s broader plans

Authorities on the Spanish island of Tenerife evacuated about 3,000 people from their homes overnight as a wildfire caused by high temperatures and strong winds

At least 14 people have died and 102 are missing after heavy rains caused a Himalayan glacial lake in northeast India to overflow its banks

Switzerland and the United States have donated $8.4 million to the Brazilian Amazon Foundation to help stop deforestation and preserve the world’s largest rainforest, the

The Mexican government has announced a new agreement with conservation group Sea Shepherd aimed at increasing protection for the endangered vaquita as the world’s smallest

Two earthquakes of magnitudes 6.3 and 5.3 struck within half an hour of each other in the Bajhang district bordering India on Tuesday, destroying several

Over the past week, the corpses of 120 river dolphins have been discovered in a tributary of the Amazon River under circumstances that experts suspect

A bushfire in the Australian state of Victoria raged overnight and authorities urged residents in a remote area of Tasmania state to evacuate the area