The Indian government has declared heat waves to be official natural disasters. Also, with more than 4,000 cases reported in ...

A woman walks into the Kumroj Community Forest in Nepal to cut grass. Danielle Preiss/The World Twenty years ago, Birendra Mahato founded the Tharu Cultural Museum near Chitwan National Park — Nepal’s ...

In an attempt to cut down on outside noise and rowdiness, the Westminster City Council, which is responsible for licensing ...

Today marks 81 years since the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing tens of thousands ...

Iran’s deputy foreign minister said today that his country and Oman are close to finalizing an agreement with the US to ...

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Members of the world’s coast guards, navies, search and rescue teams, anyone who regularly operates boats at extreme speeds, are highly exposed to chronic brain trauma — even if they’ve never hit ...

Climate change is walloping Europe this summer. The continent is warming twice as quickly as the global average. We’ve reported on the extreme heat, drought and fires that have followed in places like ...

Summers in India, have always been hot. But this summer has been extreme, even by local standards. And it’s pushing people to ...

Iran’s deputy foreign minister said today that his country and Oman are close to finalizing an agreement with the US to ...

A state legislature in Brazil has gotten used to some large rodent visitors: capybaras. The notoriously chill animals don’t ...

Hundreds of people have been arrested across the Amazon this month in a sweeping five-country law enforcement operation going ...