At least 25 people, many of them schoolchildren and teenagers, were killed when a passenger bus plunged into a ravine on the mountainous Fogo island in Cape Verde, local media and officials said Sunda...
More than 2,000 Christmas trees were planted at St Annes beach in February 2026. (Photo: .visitstannes.info) Discarded Christmas trees are being used to help protect homes and businesses along the Fyl...
Smoke rises from a building damaged in the strike in Lamerd (AP) The US-Israeli war against Iran began on February 28 with strikes across the country, including an attack on the southern Iranian city ...
Firefighters carry their equipment as they attempt to extinguish a wildfire on a peatland field in Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Muhammad Hatta) Orangutans res...
18-year-old Bianca Adler turns back 400m from Everest summit, returns a year later to make historyPhoto: Bianca Adler/ Instagram In the pre-dawn darkness of the world’s highest mountain, an 18-year-ol...
The research team at 5,050 metres altitude (University of Munster photo) The glacier on Mount Ararat, Turkey’s highest mountain, has been surveyed for the first time as scientists race to study ...
Deep in Niger’s Ténéré Desert once stood what was widely regarded as the world’s loneliest tree, an umbrella thorn acacia that survived for around 300 years despite having no other tree wi...
Forty Thousand Cubic Meters of Fresh Water Flow from the Congo into the Atlantic Every Second. A New Study Traces Where It Goes from There. Every second, the Congo River releases about 40,000 cubic me...
Climate change is often framed as a story of ecological loss, but scientists have uncovered an unexpected consequence unfolding nearly 2,500 metres beneath the Arctic Ocean. As glaciers in Greenland a...
View of Piazza del Popolo in Rome, where curved architectural design can allow sound to travel across the square in unexpected ways. In parts of Rome, a whisper can travel far beyond where it is spoke...