This effectively meant all work stopped on processing the paperwork of people fleeing to the U.S. because of persecution. One ...

By Waqas Alam Angaria Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, is home to more than 20 million people and has been in the news many times due to climate-related issues such as heat waves, urban flooding and ...

Comparing pollen records from three lakes in different geological substrates highlights the influence of geology and climate on long-term vegetation development.

Federal agencies across Washington are finding ways to keep funding frozen even after judges last month temporarily blocked ...

The BRICS bloc, with South Africa, Egypt, and Ethiopia currently representing Africa among its member states, is poised to ...

The Taliban leader has made a rare visit to a university in Afghanistan in his first known trip to a modern education institution.

Planting fast-growing crops, burning them, capturing the released CO2 and storing it: this is being discussed as a way to ...

Climate scientists present a realistic supercomputer simulation that resolves the complex interactions between fire, vegetation, smoke and the atmosphere. The authors find that increasing greenhouse ...

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species -- according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out since 1750 -- twice the number of animal species lost. But which species ...

Extreme fire seasons in recent years highlight the urgent need to better understand wildfires within the broader context of ...

President Donald Trump appeared with billionaire Elon Musk in the Oval Office to sign an executive order that would continue ...