In the past two decades, many traditional rubber tappers have abandoned the vision of famed tapper leader and environmentalist Chico Mendes, who fiercely opposed deforestation by big cattle ranchers.
Ukraine’s foreign minister said Monday that his nation wants a summit to end the war but he doesn’t anticipate Russia taking part, a statement making it hard to foresee the devastating invasion ending soon.
According to a U.N. report by a panel of experts, scores of civilians including women and children have been killed by the M23 rebels in eastern Congo. It says the M23 rebels have forced children to be soldiers.
Expected to be available to the public in mid- or late-2023, Oregon's psilocybin program is charting a potential course for other states. Oregon voters approved Ballot Measure 109 by an 11% margin in 2020.
It’s a simple solution, but one that may keep the marble columns and valuable mosaics of Venice’s iconic St. Mark’s Basilica safe from seawater-induced erosion: A set of glass barriers installed around the 900-year-old church has kept its floors dry during frequent high tides.
Residents of the oasis of Alnif say they can’t remember a drought this bad: The land is dry. Some wells are empty. Palm groves that date back more than 100 years are barren. Home to centuries-old oases that have been a trademark of Morocco, this region is reeling from the effects of climate change.
A species of glass frogs found in South and Central America has the rare ability to turn on and off its transparent appearance.
About a week after the first Russian bombs struck Ukraine, Andrii Kuprash, the head of a village north of Kyiv, got a call around 8 a.m. from an unknown number. A man speaking Russian threatened to find him. The hunt was on.
Just as the balance between privacy and national security shifted after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, COVID-19 has given officials justification to embed tracking tools in society that have lasted long after lockdowns.
Intensive care units are turning away ambulances, relatives of sick people are searching for open beds and patients are slumped on benches in hospital corridors and lying on floors for a lack of beds.
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Residents in Kichwa Indigenous villages in Peru say they fell into poverty after the government turned their ancestral forest into a national park, severely restricted hunting and allowed the sale of forest carbon credits to oil companies. Now they wan their share of the money.
A deadly wave of Russian strikes pounded the southern city of Kherson, yet Ukrainians marked Christmas with ceremonies and celebration.
Churches have joined in Germany’s efforts to save on heating costs this winter, forcing their congregations into ever more layers of clothing. But at the same time, they are providing warm spaces for the homeless and for people who are struggling to pay their bills.
As hundreds of millions of Christians were ushering in the Christmas holiday, wrapping up a tumultuous year characterized by conflict and violence in many parts of the world, thousands of visitors descending upon the traditional birthplace of Jesus in the biblical town of Bethlehem.
Recalling Jesus' birth in a stable, Pope Francis rebuked those "ravenous" for wealth and power at the expense of the vulnerable, including children, in a Christmas Eve homily decrying war, poverty and greedy consumerism.
It was the latest twist for Charles Sobhraj, depicted in a series co-produced by the BBC and Netflix called "The Serpent,'' which aired last year. He in the past admitted to killing Western tourists around Asia.
Nestled between India, Pakistan and China, Ladakh has not just faced territorial disputes but also stark climate change. The region’s sparsely populated villages have seen shifting weather patterns that have altered people’s lives through floods, landslides and droughts.
China's unyielding "zero-COVID" approach, which aimed to isolate all infected people, bought it years to prepare for the disease. But an abrupt reopening, announced Dec. 7 in the wake of anti-lockdown protests, caught the nation under-vaccinated and short on hospital capacity.
Charles Sobhraj was freed after serving most of his sentence for killing American and Canadian backpackers, and he was taken to the airport for a flight back to Paris, his attorney said.
