[ad_1] BONN, Germany (Reuters) – The leaders of Germany and France promised to limit the use of coal on Wednesday and urged more global action to combat global warming after U.S. President Donald Trump pulled…

[ad_1] ATHENS (Reuters) – Heavy overnight rain flooded towns near Athens on Wednesday, killing at least two people, trapping others in their homes and cars and shutting schools. Roads in Nea Peramos, 27 km (17…

[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – British primatologist Jane Goodall sent a letter to every U.S. senator on Tuesday urging them to oppose a push in the U.S. Congress to allow oil drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National…

[ad_1] ANKARA (Reuters) – Exhausted and exposed to freezing cold, survivors of a weekend earthquake in western Iran begged authorities for food and shelter on Tuesday, saying aid was slow to reach them. A man…

[ad_1] JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian volunteers managed to save six whales beached on the northern tip of Sumatra but four died, a conservation official said on Tuesday. The rescuers worked late into Monday night to…

[ad_1] ANKARA (Reuters) – Iran said on Tuesday that rescue operations have ended in areas hit by a powerful weekend earthquake that killed at least 450 people and injured thousands of others, state television reported.…

[ad_1] BERLIN (Reuters) – Environmental policy dominated negotiations on forming a new German coalition on Monday, as the Greens pushed their would-be partners for a quicker exit from coal power. A coal power plant is…

[ad_1] NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A thick cloud of toxic smog 10 times the recommended limit enveloped India’s capital New Delhi on Monday, as government officials struggled to tackle a public health crisis that is…

[ad_1] BAGHDAD/ANKARA (Reuters) – More than 120 people were killed in Iran and at least several others in Iraq on Sunday when a powerful magnitude 7.3 earthquake hit the region, state media in the two…

[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States hopes to promote wider use of fossil fuels at a global meeting on climate change next week, a White House official said, reflecting the gaping divide between Washington…

[ad_1] DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia remains committed to the 2015 Paris climate change agreement, the energy minister for the world’s top oil exporter said on Saturday. Khalid al-Falih’s statement came as almost 200 countries…

[ad_1] BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany should lead the fight against climate change and cut emissions without destroying jobs, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday, treading a fine line as she tries to clinch a coalition…

[ad_1] BONN, Germany (Reuters) – Germany, Japan and other U.S. allies are unlikely ever to persuade President Donald Trump to drop his plan to quit the Paris climate agreement, former U.S. vice president Al Gore…

[ad_1] NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India plans to use fire trucks to spray water over parts of its capital to combat toxic smog and dust that has triggered a pollution emergency, with conditions expected to…

[ad_1] MONTREAL (Reuters) – The United Nations’ aviation agency on Friday recommended scaling back criteria for biofuels used on international flights as part of a compromise with developing countries who felt the rules would be…

[ad_1] LAMU, Kenya (Reuters) – The beaches of Kenya’s idyllic Lamu island are dotted with traditional Swahili stone and coral houses, mansions built by European royalty, the odd donkey and, increasingly, tidal lines of plastic…

[ad_1] NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India plans to spray water over its capital, New Delhi, to try to combat toxic smog that has triggered a pollution emergency, officials said on Friday, with conditions expected to…

[ad_1] SYDNEY (Reuters) – An Australian museum has teamed up with computer giant International Business Machines Corp to count the country’s native frog population, and they want amphibian enthusiasts to jump on board. An Australian…

[ad_1] (Reuters) – A spectacular multicolored display of the Northern Lights danced across the sky over Finland this week. FILE PHOTO – The Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) is seen over the sky near the village…

[ad_1] BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union negotiators agreed to a compromise on carbon market reforms on Thursday, with the bloc keen for a deal this week to show leadership at U.N. climate talks in Bonn.…

[ad_1] BOGOTA (Reuters) – A landslide killed at least four people and left 18 missing in southwest Colombia, authorities said on Wednesday, as the country grappled once again with the deadly pairing of heavy rains…

[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) has yet to fix one in three of the 1.2 million cars affected by the diesel emissions scandal in Britain, over two years since the revelations first came to…

[ad_1] PARIS (Reuters) – French environment minister Nicolas Hulot said on Wednesday that reducing the share of nuclear energy in France’s power mix to 50 percent from 75 percent will probably take until 2030-35 instead…

[ad_1] JERUSALEM (Reuters) – On the banks of a creek near Jerusalem stands an enchanted forest, its trees shrouded by giant cobwebs woven by long-jawed spiders. Igor Armicach, a doctoral student at Hebrew University’s Arachnid…

[ad_1] BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU negotiators are split over the uses of a new clean technology fund ahead of talks on carbon market reforms on Wednesday, with the bloc keen for a deal this week…

[ad_1] NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Pollution in the Indian capital on Tuesday hit a dangerous level at which everyone is at risk and doctors called for the city’s half marathon this month to be canceled.…

[ad_1] (Reuters) – Two children, backed by the Clean Air Council environmental group, sued U.S. President Donald Trump and two of his Cabinet members on Monday to try to stop them from scrapping a package…

[ad_1] BONN (Reuters) – This year will be among the three hottest on record, the United Nations said on Monday as almost 200 countries began talks in Germany to bolster a global climate accord that…

[ad_1] DANANG, Vietnam (Reuters) – The death toll from the typhoon that struck Vietnam at the weekend has risen to at least 49, the government said on Monday. People ride motorcycles along flooded road after…

[ad_1] OSLO (Reuters) – Governments will try to bolster a 2015 pact to combat climate change at annual talks in Germany from Monday strained by President Donald Trump’s plan to pull out and instead promote…