Environment

Greenpeace lifts Swedish refinery blockade

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — Environmental campaigners Greenpeace said Sunday they had lifted a blockade of an oil refinery imposed to…

Large oil spill washes up to Venezuela shores

CARACAS, Venezuela (AF) — Oil has washed up to Venezuela's west coast after a leak in a pipeline that takes crude…

Why are Brazil’s wetlands engulfed in flames?

by Louis GENOT RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) -- The Pantanal, the world's biggest tropical wetlands, is burning at record-shattering…

Water warning as climate risks intensify: report

by Kelly MACNAMARA LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) -- Record temperatures are accelerating the rise of sea levels, melting glaciers and…

Smuggled gasoline rescues Venezuelans running on fumes

by Luis Bravo with Margioni Bermudez in Caracas Agence France-Presse MARACAIBO, Venezuela (AFP) — Cheap gasoline smuggled over the border…

US towns destroyed as firefighters battle wildfires under orange skies

by Javier TOVAR Agence France-Presse Hundreds of homes including entire communities were razed by wildfires in the western United States…

Syria battles forest fires for seventh day straight

DAMASCUS, Syria (AFP) — Syrian firefighters and army helicopters Wednesday battled forest fires for a seventh consecutive day in government-held…

Sudan floods threaten ancient archaeological gem

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AFP) -- Rising Nile floodwaters are threatening to swamp an ancient archaeological site in Sudan, after some of…

California fires burn record 2 million acres

  NORTH FORK, United States (AFP) -- Wildfires in California have torched a record more than two million acres, the…

Highest Nile waters for a century swamp Sudan

by Sammy Ketz Agence France-Presse KHARTOUM, Sudan (AFP) — On Sudan's Tuti Island, where the Blue and White Nile meet,…

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