Debates around climate change often focus on the world’s largest economies and biggest emitters. But much of the hard work of ...

With a young population packed into a low-lying delta, the country is facing acute challenges from rising sea levels and ...

Banished from Eurovision, Russia will launch the final of its own international song contest at President Vladimir Putin's ...

This weekend's September new moon will rise amid a partial solar eclipse, giving way to the autumnal equinox. Here's when, where it will be visible ...

Japan is racing to combat an emergency killing hundreds of elderly each year: the collision of the climate crisis and its aging population.

Today, there are over 30,000 dams in the world. Most of them are created according to standard projects and are designed to help the population with agriculture. But one of them is completely unique ...

A recent U.N-backed report projects that about 2.3 million children under 5 in South Sudan now require treatment for acute malnutrition.

The number of refugees living in Germany has fallen for the first time in more than a decade. In a boost for Friedrich Merz’s centre-Right government, the population of refugees in Germany fell by 50, ...

People have a more than tripled risk of pancreatic cancer if their mouths contain 27 types of bacteria and fungi, including ...

CNBC's Elaine Yu explores China's silver economy and consumer health care sector, and how one company is seeing opportunities in the space.

Driven by climate change, population mobility and global trade, mosquito-borne diseases are extending beyond tropical and ...

Reasons to be Cheerful reports on the Chesapeake Bay’s historic oyster reef restoration, boosting ecosystems and local ...