Humans have degraded or destroyed roughly two-thirds of the world's original tropical rainforest cover, new data reveals – raising alarm that a key natural buffer against climate change is quickly...

Russia's feared riot police have launched an online recruitment advertising blitz in the weeks since nationwide protests erupted over the jailing of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.

It’s widely accepted that mankind has had a massive impact on the planet. What’s less often acknowledged is that the damage is basically irreversible. Humans can only try to limit or correct the...

During several days of brutal cold in Texas, the city of Austin saw its fleet of 12 new electric buses rendered inoperative by a statewide power outage. That problem will be magnified next year, when...

In a garden on a hill, under the wide boughs of a cherry tree, a white phone booth glistens in the early spring light.

Ai Weiwei, the Chinese dissident whose activist art has made him Beijing's best-known critic, has swapped life in British exile for Portugal, where, in a countryside estate east of Lisbon, he is...

Books titled “Trees in Trouble” and “How We’re F—ing Up Our Planet” scream out from the shelves of Barnes and Noble’s nature and wildlife section between reassuring tomes on hummingbirds and wildfl...

Sustainable shirt proves lighter and more breathable than competitors in lab tests.

"Everything will be OK," read 19-year-old Angel's T-shirt as the dancer and taekwondo champion joined anti-coup protesters in Myanmar on Wednesday.

Myanmar’s security forces have detained more than 1,200 people since the military seized power in a coup on Feb. 1, overthrowing elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

It’s never a good idea to rewrite stock market rules during a boom. Yet that’s what Rishi Sunak is planning. Britain’s finance minister on Tuesday welcomed a review which recommends sweeping away...

For 17 years, trucker Colin Birch has been hitting the highways to collect used cooking oil from restaurants.

The majestic sight of elephants roaming beneath Mount Kilimanjaro has long lured throngs of wildlife-lovers to Amboseli National Park on Kenya's border with Tanzania.