Climate change and hurricanes: Do we need a smoking gun?
PARIS -- Many climate scientists are convinced that mega-storms Harvey and Irma -- which left scores dead and caused massive economic losses -- were...
Chile’s Easter Island declares huge marine protection zone
LA SERENA, CHILE — Indigenous people who live on Chile’s Easter Island far out in the Pacific have voted to create a vast marine...
Scientists expose true extent of cuckoo’s cunning
PARIS — The common cuckoo, notorious for evading parental duty by hiding her eggs in the nests of other brooding birds, is even more...
Sea Shepherd pulls plug on Japan whale hunt
SYDNEY – Activist group Sea Shepherd on Tuesday pulled the plug on its annual campaign to disrupt Japanese whaling, saying it can no longer...
Mexico helped push vaquita porpoise to brink of extinction – activists
MEXICO CITY – Mexican fishing authorities have boycotted the effort to save the critically endangered vaquita marina porpoise, environmentalists said Monday, calling them “accomplices”...
Fiona the baby hippo, or how animals go viral
WASHINGTON – First, Bao Bao and Bei Bei the pandas made a splash at the National Zoo in Washington. Then, April the Giraffe wowed...
‘Missing link’ bolsters bold theory on dino evolution
PARIS — An oddball, vegetarian dinosaur with the silhouette of a flesh-ripping velociraptor, whose fossilized remains were unearthed in southern Chile 13 years ago,...
Planting bamboo
In celebration of World Bamboo Day 2017, the ALC Foundation is organizing a bamboo planting trail dubbed as Camp Kawayan under its Kawayanihan project.
The...
Coal plants might be even more toxic than we thought
By Eric Roston, Bloomberg
SCIENTISTS studying the aftermath of a massive coal-ash spill in North Carolina have discovered a byproduct of the fossil fuel that...
Dutch students grow their own biodegradable car
EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS -- What’s made of sugar, can carry four people, and travel at 50 miles (80 km) per hour? A biodegradable car, whose...
Small odds of reaching 2°C
PARIS — There is a 5% chance of limiting average global warming to under 2°C (3.6° Fahrenheit), the target set in the 2015 climate-rescue...
Other planets may never be as hospitable as Earth
PARIS — Scientists dealt a blow Monday to the quest for organisms inhabiting worlds besides Earth, saying our planet was unusual in its ability...