Countries from the Amazon region formed a joint statement on Wednesday at a summit in Brazil to protect tropical rainforests, which play a crucial role in regulating Earth's climate.
The joint statement,...
At least six people have been killed in a wildfire that has razed a Hawaiian town, officials said Wednesday, with desperate residents jumping into the ocean in a bid to escape the fast-moving flames.
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Norwegian authorities have evacuated thousands of people following flooding and landslides, as the Nordic country struggles to handle massive downpours since the weekend and the storm "Hans".
Authorities said...
Temperatures are expected to hit 44 degrees Centigrade in Spain and Portugal on Wednesday as the two countries boil under their third heatwave of the summer.
With huge forest fires raging across southern...
Ecuadoran presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was shot dead after holding a rally in Quito on Wednesday evening. President Guillermo Lasso blamed Villavicencio's death on "organized crime" and vowed to...
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen offered 400 million euros from the bloc's solidarity fund as part of a package to help flood-hit Slovenia.
Von der Leyen made it clear that, in her view,...
Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva opened the Amazon summit in Belem, in northern Brazil, in a "context of severe worsening of the climate crisis" as the South American leaders will seek a roadmap to...
Hundreds of firefighters on Tuesday battled a wildfire that has burned for four days in southern Portugal, which like neighbouring Spain is sweltering in a heatwave that has triggered widespread weather alerts...
Eight South American countries agreed Tuesday to launch an alliance to fight deforestation in the Amazon, vowing at a summit in Brazil to stop the world's biggest rainforest from reaching "a point of no return...
More patients in Singapore are getting hospital-type care at home with the expansion of a pilot programme that covers all public acute hospitals. The hospital's home care programme is among the four added to...