NSW Rural Fire Service crews fight a fire as it burns close to property on Wheelbarrow Ridge Road at Colo Heights, north west of Sydney, Australia, November 19, 2019. AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts/via REUTERS SYDNEY (Reuters) - More than 100 schools…

From NPR Southeast Asia’s biggest lake is in serious trouble. Drought, dam building and overfishing have brought the Tonle Sap to a tipping point. And as the lake goes, so goes the greater Mekong ecosystem. Read the full article from…

(Reuters) - California, the seventh-biggest U.S. oil-producing state, on Tuesday unveiled new regulations for drillers as it seeks to wind down its reliance on fossil fuels. FILE PHOTO: People protest against fracking and neighborhood oil drilling in Los Angeles, California,…

(Reuters) - California, the seventh-biggest U.S. oil producing state, on Tuesday unveiled new regulations for drillers as it seeks to wind down its reliance on fossil fuels. FILE PHOTO: People protest against fracking and neighborhood oil drilling in Los Angeles,…

By Natalia A. Ramos Miranda FILE PHOTO: A DC-10 Air Tanker firefighting plane drops water to prevent a wildfire from spreading to homes near Concepcion, Chile February 12, 2019. REUTERS/Jose Luis Saavedra/File PhotoSANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile faces a “very difficult”…

FILE PHOTO: A view of a collapsed tailings dam owned by Brazilian mining company Vale SA, in Brumadinho, Brazil February 13, 2019. REUTERS/Washington AlvesSAO PAULO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has opened a preliminary investigation of iron…

(Reuters) - After a month of preparations and goodbyes, Bei Bei, the Washington National Zoo’s most eligible giant panda bachelor, was on his way to China on Tuesday, where scientists hope he will help increase the population of his species.…

LONDON (Reuters) - Carbon offsetting, already a multi-billion dollar industry, will get a major boost from the launch of an international scheme to offset aviation emissions, called CORSIA, in 2021. FILE PHOTO: EasyJet airplanes are pictured at Tegel airport in…

LONDON (Reuters) - EasyJet’s pledge to offset its carbon emissions isn’t the end of its efforts to clean up its act, the budget airline’s chief executive said, adding it will look into hybrid and electric planes amid criticism the aviation…

GENEVA (Reuters) - A rare species of porpoise is facing imminent extinction as fishing vessels appear to be flouting an international ban on them entering its last sanctuary, off the coast of Mexico, the head of a U.N. treaty said.…