BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany has confirmed it will relax some environmental conservation rules to help farmers overcome a sharp rise in animal feed prices after this summer’s drought, the agriculture minister said on Wednesday. FILE PHOTO: Cattle stand in an…

KOCHI, India (Reuters) - The death toll from the worst floods in nearly a century in the Indian tourist state of Kerala rose to 43 on Wednesday as rising water stranded tens of thousands of people and forced the closure…

BELGRADE (Reuters) - American alligator Muja arrived at Belgrade Zoo on the eve of the Second World War and is believed to be the oldest of his kind in captivity, and still in good health with a hearty appetite for…

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Storm clouds gathered over southern Oregon and northern California early on Wednesday, threatening to spark more wildfires with lightning strikes as emergency crews battled several deadly blazes, forecasters said. FILE PHOTO: Firefighter fight fire near torching…

(Reuters) - Sub-tropical depression five has formed over the central Atlantic and is expected to develop into a subtropical stormlater on Wednesday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. The system is about 1,015 miles (1,630 kilometers) west of the…

BEIJING (Reuters) - A glacial lake in China’s far western region of Xinjiang has burst though there were no casualties, state media said, while the environment group Greenpeace warned on Wednesday that such events have increased because of rising temperatures.…

BEIJING (Reuters) - Northeast China’s Liaoning province has now culled 8,116 hogs in response to an outbreak of African swine fever earlier this month, the provincial animal husbandry bureau told Reuters on Wednesday. No new cases have been discovered in…

BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s second-largest steelmaking province, Jiangsu, will require steel mills to move to two new areas on the coast in the next few years, according to a provincial government document, to reduce air pollution and to make the…

(Reuters) - A low pressure system located about 750 miles south-southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland has an 80 percent chance of developing into a tropical or subtropical cyclone in the next 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said…