‘Lungs of the Earth’: the Indonesians fighting for peatland
Indonesian environmentalist Pralensa steered his boat through a shallow canal in the marshy peatlands near his village, an environment he ...
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Cook Islands wages war on ‘plague’ of hungry starfish
Divers clutch wooden spears as they plunge beneath the waves, hunting hordes of hungry starfish destroying the coral reefs around ...
Sunbears to elephants: life at a Thai wildlife hospital
The patient lay prone on the operating table. An IV line snaking from his left leg, near the wound from ...
Mexican fishermen join fight to save extraordinary amphibian
After decades working as a fisherman on a high-altitude Mexican lake, Froylan Correa is now helping to save an endangered ...
Syria seeks European help as forest wildfires rage
Syria's minister for emergencies and disaster management on Tuesday requested support from the European Union to battle wildfires that have ...
Syria battles forest fires for third day as Turkey sends help
Syrian emergency workers were battling forest fires raging in the coastal province of Latakia on Saturday for a third day ...
Syrian authorities evacuate citizens amid major forest fires
Syrian rescuers evacuated residential areas in Latakia province because of major forest fires, authorities said on Friday. Fires have spreading ...
France expecting peak temperatures as heatwave hits Europe
Paris extended a red alert for high temperatures on Tuesday, with the top of the Eiffel Tower shut, polluting traffic ...
Southern Europe roasts as temperatures soar
Paris was put on red alert for extreme heat and Spain and Portugal reported record temperatures on Monday as a ...
Deforestation in S.Leone national park threatens chimps, humans alike
Esther and Rio, two orphaned baby chimpanzees, clung tenderly to their caregiver's chest at a sanctuary inside one of Sierra ...
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