Putin's Siberian tiger disappears, possibly due to tracking device failure or poachers A rare Siberian tiger that Vladimir Putin fitted with a radio-tracking ...
Low-lying and impoverished Asian coastal cities such as Dhaka, Manila and Jakarta are vulnerable to "brutal" damage from climate change without global action, ...
A Thai-based firm put off a fourth attempt to stop a major oil leak in the Timor Sea off Australia's northwest coast on Tuesday due to technical problems, some nine weeks after the spill started. PTTEP Australasia said equipment problems forced a ...
A massive oil and gas leak off Australia's northwest coast was killing seabirds and threatening thousands of marine animals, conservationists warned Friday. Oil company PTTEP Australasia is preparing to make a fourth attempt at plugging the leaking Montara wellhead, which has been ...
The equivalent of 36 football fields are being stripped from the world's forests each minute, the environmental group World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said in a statement released here on Thursday. The group, presenting its figures during a UN-organized World Forestry ...
Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil team up to protect Atlantic Forest, halt deforestation Three South American nations announced a joint plan Tuesday to establish protected zones in the vast Atlantic Forest as part of an effort to halt deforestation by 2020. Speaking at the ...
SYDNEY (Reuters) - The world has five years to start a "low carbon industrial revolution" before runaway climate change becomes almost inevitable, a new report commissioned by global conservation group WWF said on Monday. Beyond 2014, the upper limits of industrial growth ...
Canadian rivers are at risk from a variety of environmental challenges, including global warming, expanding agriculture, the construction of hydro-electric dams and increased urban consumption of water, a study said Thursday. Although Canada holds the world's largest freshwater reserves in thousands of ...
British explorers say within a decade North Pole summers will be virtually ice free The North Pole will turn into an open sea during summer within a decade, according to data released Wednesday by a team of explorers who trekked through the ...
Malaysian wildlife authorities rescued a five-year old Malayan tiger, badly injured in a snare set up by poachers near the country's jungle border with Thailand, officials said Monday. "We received a tip-off on Saturday and a joint patrol with the World Wildlife ...
BANGKOK (Reuters) - The world is in danger of spending its "carbon budget" by about 2025 and risks temperatures rising beyond 2 degrees Celsius unless nations adopt a flexible carbon accounting system, conservation group WWF says in a report. The report by ...
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Developing countries will need to spend as much as $100 billion annually for the next 40 years to adapt to more extreme and severe weather changes, according to a World Bank study issued on Wednesday. The report said poorer ...
