Environment

Paris (AFP) - The world experience an average of 26 more days of extreme heat over the last 12 months that would probably not have occurred without climate change, a...

Caen (France) (AFP) - As France prepares to mark 80 years since Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy, the historic coastline faces a new threat -- rising sea...

Washington (AFP) - The freight company responsible for a large toxical chemical spill in Ohio last year has reached a $310 million settlement with US authorities, officials said Thursday. Residents...

Rhyolite Ridge (United States) (AFP) - Delicate pink buds sway in the desert breeze, pregnant with yellow pompoms whose explosion will carpet the dusty corner of Nevada that is the...

Washington (AFP) - The massive coral bleaching episode signaled by US authorities last month is expanding and deepening in reefs around the globe, scientists warned Thursday. Amid record ocean temperatures,...

Lincolnton (United States) (AFP) - When Kristal Lee and her husband bought a house in Gaston County, North Carolina two years ago, they envisioned a "forever home". But a planned...

Glacier National Park (United States) (AFP) - Glacier National Park's ice fortress is crumbling. The giant trees of Sequoia National Park are ablaze

Indiana Dunes National Park and Glacier National Park (United States) (AFP) - American biologist Laura Brennan describes the coin-sized Karner blue butterfly as "very delicate and graceful" with a "lovely...

Los Angeles (AFP) - A federal lawsuit brought by a group of California children who claimed the US government was harming them by failing to clamp down on pollution has...

Washington (AFP) - They're loud. They're sexually aroused