Huge fire breaks out at India gas well blowout
GUWAHATI, India (AFP) -- A huge fire broke out at an oil field near popular ecotourism spots in northeastern India…
6 years ago
Environment
India arrests man over shocking death of elephant
by Jalees ANDRABI Agence France-Presse NEW DEHLI, India (AFP) — Indian police have arrested a plantation worker and are hunting…
6 years ago
Russia sees melting permafrost behind Arctic fuel spill
by Maria ANTONOVA Agence France-Presse MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — An unprecedented fuel spill that has polluted huge stretches of Arctic…
6 years ago
Russia struggles to clean up Arctic river fuel spill
by Maria ANTONOVA Agence France-Presse MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russia on Thursday intensified efforts to clean up a major fuel…
6 years ago
India vows probe after elephant killed with explosives
NEW DEHLI, India (AFP) — India pledged to investigate Thursday the death of a pregnant elephant that ate explosives-filled fruit,…
6 years ago
Threat to national park, wetlands after India gas well blowout
GUWAHATI, India (AFP) — About 2,000 people have been evacuated from their homes as authorities struggle to control gas pouring from…
6 years ago
Spain eyes new tax to rubbish plastic packaging
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — The Spanish government on Tuesday proposed new legislation on rubbish that seeks to dramatically reduce single-use…
6 years ago
Football pitch of rainforest destroyed every six seconds
by Marlowe HOOD Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Vast tracts of pristine rainforest on three continents went up in…
6 years ago
Wayward whale takes city break in Montreal
MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — A young humpback whale that swam up one of Canada's major rivers and has been exploring…
6 years ago
Floods and tears in Bangladesh a week after cyclone
by Sam Jahan and Kazi Santo Agence France-Presse KHULNA, Bangladesh (AFP) — Rezaul Islam wades through waist-high water, a sack of…
6 years ago
Indonesia starts cloud seeding to keep forest fires at bay
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) -- Indonesia has started cloud seeding to induce rain as the archipelago moves to head off annual…
6 years ago
South Sudan: an unexplored Eden of biodiversity
by Nick Perry PICTURES BY TONY KARUMBA Agence France-Presse BOMA, South Sudan (AFP) — The light plane banked sharply to circle…
6 years ago
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