China’s Foreign Ministry says that a balloon the U.S. suspects of conducting surveillance was a civilian “airship” used for ...

China's Foreign Ministry said Friday that a balloon the U.S. suspects of conducting surveillance was a civilian 'airship' used for weather research.

Thursday morning’s Drought Monitor update is showing a shift in the right direction. The moderate drought status has been slimed down to a narrower corridor from Edenton to Washington to Kinston and ...

The world is “dangerously unprepared” for future pandemics, the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) say in a report published on Monday, calling on countries to ...

Despite bright sunshine and blue skies in keeping with our reputation for mild winters, the Algarve, along with all 17 other ...

Grants from the European Research Council (ERC) go to outstanding researchers and provide funding worth millions. At the ...

The Geneva meeting sets the programme for the U.N. agency this year – as well as its future budget – with the WHO facing two key challenges: a world that expects ever more from its leading health body ...

The clock is ticking as governments, businesses and consumers around the globe take action to fight global warming.

Charlene Guignard and Marco Fabbri of Italy claimed their first European gold at the International Skating Union European ...

New research warns that human activity and drought may have degraded more than a third of the Amazon rainforest – “double the previous estimate”.