Four years ago, a U.K.-based charity, SolarAid, set out to provide solar-powered electricity to every home in Kasakula, a ...

Rocinha, in the south of Rio de Janeiro, is, according to official data, the largest of Brazil’s more than 12,000 favelas, or ...

Beneath the waves of the high seas, beyond the national borders of any country, lies the deep seabed. Known in international ...

Every October, Blue Bay in southeastern Mauritius, named for its enticing waters, takes on a pinkish hue. The cause: corals ...

Seeing coral reefs can color one’s monochrome view of the ocean forever. In the pink of health — and red, blue, green and ...

In a spot outside Berlin that’s usually a paradise for birdwatchers, volunteers have recovered nearly 2,000 dead cranes in ...

Nearly half of the United Kingdom’s most commercially valuable fish populations are either overexploited, critically low or ...

For millions of years, the African landscape — the rainforests, woodlands, savannas and scrublands — has echoed with the ...

Shark meat sold across Europe may be serving up more than seafood. Dangerously high levels of methylmercury, toxic to humans, ...

Climate change may be causing long-term global wind speeds to slow down, a shift that will likely lead to a dangerous rise in ...

In a landmark ruling hailed as a major victory for Sri Lanka’s wildlife conservation, the Colombo High Court in September ...

Despite being one of the most wide-ranging wildcat species, the Afro-Asian wildcat faces a threat from its own evolutionary ...