Retreating glaciers — rivers of ice shrinking back as the world warms — are the most tangible and direct evidence of climate ...

In 1985, seven South Asian countries — Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka — came ...

B-2 bomber pilots were equipped with microwaves, snacks and even a toilet during a grueling 37-hour round-trip mission from ...

Afghanistan’s isolation on the international stage, largely because of the Taliban’s restrictions on women and girls, has ...

Scientists may be underestimating how plants will respond to rising global temperatures when they study hot summers but not ...

A study led by researchers from Brown University finds that rainfall patterns across northern Africa remained largely stable ...

Amid battles and food insecurity across Sudan, many people are turning to weeds and wild plants to sustain them.

A plan is under way to develop 11 solar power plants and 10 wind power plants in the prefecture, on farmlands that cannot be cultivated anymore and mountainous areas from where population outflows ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is witnessing a sharp increase in the number of Afghans returning in adverse circumstances from Iran, warning that returns on a massive scale have the potential to ...

All told, 108 plants with a combined capacity of 31.5 gigawatts are set to be retired by the end of Mr. Trump’s term. That list includes 25 coal plants with a combined capacity of 18.2 gigawatts.