Environment

Climate change adds to pressures on endangered African penguins: study

by Kerry SHERIDAN Agence France Presse MIAMI, United States (AFP) -- Climate change and overfishing have left already endangered young…

Scientists find huge ancient landslide on Great Barrier Reef

SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) -- A massive underwater landslide that could have triggered a towering tsunami some 300,000 years ago has…

Vienna zoo panda twins play around as they celebrate half-year birthday

VIENNA, AUSTRIA (Reuters) -- Fu Feng and Fu Ban, the famous panda twins born in Vienna's Schoenbrunn Zoo, turned half…

West Nile virus epidemics made worse by drought: study

by Marlowe HOOD pARIS, France (AFP) -- Drought has sharply boosted the intensity of deadly West Nile virus epidemics, which…

Climate change may overload US electrical grid: study

MIAMI, United States (AFP) -- As the planet warms due to climate change and hot days become more common, the…

Amazon forest was transformed by ancient people: study

MIAMI, United States (AFP) -- Long before European settlers arrived in the Americas in 1492, the Amazon rainforest was transformed…

Smog chokes coal-addicted Poland

by Mary SIBIERSKI Agencce france Presse WARSAW, Poland (AFP) -- The soupy grey smog shrouding Polish cities this winter is…

Oil spill threatens India’s nesting turtles

CHENNAI, India (AFP) -- Hundreds of students and fishermen were working Friday to clean up an oil spill on India's…

Four Bengal tigers born in El Salvador animal park

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AFP) -- Four Bengal tigers have been born in an El Salvador animal park that runs…

One in four US kids suffers ‘chronic bullying’: study

MIAMI, United States (AFP) -- Nearly one in four US children suffer from chronic bullying at school, a problem that…

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