More than 80 nonprofits receive $250M for global women’s health from Melinda French Gates
More than 80 organizations that provide health care for women all over the world received grants Wednesday totaling $250 million from Melinda French Gates...
In Japan’s Northern Alps, residents battle monkeys to protect homes and farms
AZUMINO, Japan (AP) — In the foothills of Japan’s Northern Alps, people are chasing monkeys.Wearing bright orange vests, the humans ring bells, blow whistles...
Protesters confront security at main venue of UN climate talks
BELEM, Brazil (AP) — A group of activists skirmished with security on Tuesday at United Nations climate talks in Brazilian Amazon city Belem, briefly...
Biovac starts trials on South Africa’s first domestically developed cholera vaccine
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Researchers and scientists in South Africa on Tuesday launched clinical trials on the first domestically developed vaccine.The oral cholera vaccine, developed...
Landmark Paris Agreement set a path to slow warming. The world hasn’t stayed on...
The world has changed dramatically in the decade since leaders celebrated a historic climate agreement in Paris a decade ago, but not quite in...
Biofuel pledge at climate summit highlights India’s ethanol blending debate
BENGALURU, India (AP) — India's push to blend ethanol with gasoline shows the benefits and challenges of the sustainable fuel efforts being showcased at...
Brazil stumps up billions of dollars for its ambitious rainforest fund at UN climate...
BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Brazil on Thursday unveiled long-awaited details of a plan to pay countries to preserve their tropical forests and announced it...
Hurricane? Cyclone? Typhoon? Here’s the difference
WASHINGTON (AP) — Typhoon Kalmaegi has killed at least 114 people in the Philippines with even more missing and then hit Vietnam Friday. A...
Deep-sea mining risks disrupting the marine food web, study warns
Drilling for minerals deep in the ocean could have immense consequences for the tiny animals at the core of the vast marine food web...
A decade after Brazil’s deadly dam collapse, Indigenous peoples demand justice on the eve...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A week before what the Indigenous Krenak people now call “the death of the river,” they say they could feel...
