A sign warns tourists of extreme heat in Death Valley national park in July in California. Photograph: Daniel Jacobi II/AP
Earth’s string of 13 straight months with a new average heat record came to…
A single arched concrete block juts out of a field in Senegal where R&B singer Akon first laid the foundation stone for his $6 billion metropolis four years ago.
The West African nation granted…
Naked mole rats’ burrows are steaming hot but they like to sleep huddled together for warmth. Photograph: Ger Bosma/Alamy
To read about the naked mole rat is to come across information that you wish…
PARIS (AP) — Olympic boxer Imane Khelif said the wave of hateful scrutiny she has faced over misconceptions about her gender “harms human dignity,” and she called for an end to bullying athletes…
An ongoing excavation in Damietta, Egypt, has uncovered 63 tombs from more than 2,500 years ago, alongside a trove of gold artifacts, coins and pottery.
World leaders are scrambling to avert a full-scale war between Israel and Hezbollah. There is another war, on a scale perhaps unimaginable to many, they should rush to prevent as well.
Cameroon is a major exporter of food to neighboring countries like Chad, Gabon, and Nigeria, as well as internationally to countries like China (25.8% of exports), the Netherlands (12.4%), Spain (6.1…
ACCRA, July 30 (Reuters) - Ghana's lawmakers on Tuesday passed a law to give more opportunities to women at the national level, the speaker of parliament said, with a target to increase their…
TotalEnergies has signed an agreement with Bujagali Energy Ltd as part of its plans to invest in energy projects, particularly renewable energy.
The deal will see the oil company acquire a 28.3 per…
For the two hours drivers can spend on the eight-lane, often empty, highway from Cairo to El Dabaa on the north coast, all there is to see is miles and miles of intensively farmed land on each side.…
Vancouver, Canada. What grows on the land surrounding the city makes a difference to the temperature in the centre, the study says. Photograph: All Canada Photos/Alamy
A reduction in temperature…
A total of 22 people have been arrested in connection with a planned "climate camp" near a power station in North Yorkshire, police have said.
The arrests were for public order offences, including…
Something remarkable has happened to A23a, the world's biggest iceberg.
For months now it has been spinning on the spot just north of Antarctica when really it should be racing along with Earth's…
The Iter tokamak was supposed to be producing energy by 2020. Photograph: US Iter
It was a project that promised the sun. Researchers would use the world’s most advanced technology to design a…
Martin Pugh at Middlewick Ranges, where he was apparently assaulted trying to protect skylarks. Photograph: Teri Pengilley/The Observer
The song of the skylark has filled poets’ hearts for centuries…
A coastal erosion warning sign at Montrose links in 2021. A report that year predicted 120 metres of coast would be lost over 40 years – but that is now accelerating. Photograph: Andy Thompson/Alamy…
A plenary meeting at the 61st session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Sofia, Bulgaria. Photo: IISD/ENB | Anastasia Rodopoulou
Dr Youba Sokona is an energy and sustainable…