Environment

Indonesia rescuers use hands in search for scores missing in mudslide

A landslide destroyed a remote village in Indonesia, killing at least 17 people, an official said

Lima climate talks at crossroads on ways to slow warming

About 190 nations faced a crossroads Friday on how boldly to fight global warming as United Natio

Pacific storm triggers tornado, mudslides, floods in Southern California

A Pacific storm pounded Southern California with heavy rain and high winds on Friday, triggering

Kerry feels heat on Keystone oil pipeline at U.N. climate talks

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday urged countries at U.N.

Protecting mangroves can lower disaster risks, offer cash: experts

Better protecting the world's fast-disappearing mangroves could have big economic, social and env

Peru's melting glaciers a deadly threat as temperatures rise

High in the Peruvian Andes, the glacier-fed lake Laguna 513 brims with meltwater atop a populated

Clean-up of Israeli desert oil spill could take years: experts

Ecologists said on Wednesday it could take years to clean up a massive oil spill that flooded an

Trash talk: 269,000 tons of plastic litter choke world's oceans

There are plastic shopping bags, bottles, toys, action figures, bottle caps, pacifiers, tooth bru

Up to 17,000 people without power as 'weather bomb' hits Britain

Up to 17,000 residents in the west of Scotland were left without power on Wednesday morning as a

Hunting for pictures, and crocodiles, in remote Aboriginal country

We are deep in a forest crowded by Australian paperback trees, the air thick with humidity but ee