Secretary of State John Kerry took a turn from international diplomacy to wade into the climate change debate, advising both America and Africa to adopt farming policies that recognize and respond to the
NORTH SALT LAKE, Utah — A landslide struck an upscale suburban Salt Lake City community on Tuesday, destroying a home and forcing evacuations as a rain-soaked hillside tumbled from above. No one was
Sydney experienced the first sooty taste summer on Wednesday as the NSW Rural Fire Service conducted a spate of hazard reduction burns to prepare for the early onset fire season it says it is not prepared
Mexico's Senate gave final approval early on Tuesday to the backbone of a landmark energy reform as the government prepares to lure investment by major oil companies to stem the country's declining oil
A South African village has become the first in the world to be powered by fuel cells, companies behind the project said on Tuesday, in a new scheme which could help remote areas of the continent access
The United States will invest nearly $500 million to modernize Ghana's power sector in a bid to help it attract private sector investment and double energy access on the African continent, the State Department
The drinking-water crisis in one of Ohio's largest cities is drawing attention to a new requirement for farmers in the state: a license to fertilize. The mayor of Toledo, Ohio, lifted citywide restrictions
Lagos has eight suspected cases of Ebola, all in people who came into contact with Nigeria's first victim who died last month, the health commissioner said on Tuesday, with one case confirmed. Authorities
Three of the world's leading Ebola specialists called on Tuesday for experimental drugs and vaccines to be offered to people in West Africa, where a vast outbreak of the deadly disease is raging in three
The United States hopes to expand a two-year-old effort against organised crime in West Africa to include wildlife trafficking and money laundering - activities that it says exploits some of the same networks
Tiffany & Co. has reaffirmed its sustainability commitments through its work as a founding member of the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA), according to the jewellery company's latest
The amount of CO2 being saved by local councils in England and Wales through recycling fell by 3%, between 2011/12 and 2012/13, according to a new recycling report released last week. Eunomia's latest
Taking a small daily dose of aspirin can significantly reduce the risk of developing — or dying from — bowel, stomach and oesophageal cancer, according to a large review of scientific studies.
OSAKA – An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.2 shook parts of Kyoto and Osaka prefectures early Wednesday morning. The 1:17 a.m. quake originated in southern Kyoto Prefecture at a depth of
THE World Bank and the African Development Bank (AfDB) are preparing as much as $260 million in emergency funding to help Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea contain the spread of Ebola and limit its economic
THE Minister of Water Resources, Mrs Sarah Ochekpe, on Tuesday reiterated the call for the adoption of a legal framework to protect the country’s water resources. Ochepke made the call at a stakeholders’
RESIDENTS of Abuja on Tuesday decried the indiscriminate dumping of refuse on the city roads by motorists and other road users. Some of the residents, who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN),
TO boost electricity generation in the country, the Federal Government yesterday granted water use permit to three indigenous private firms so as to improve hydropower generation. The three
Khartoum – Khartoum State Government revealed big damages in several parts of the state due to the recent heavy rains which hit the area. Khartoum State Governor, Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Khidir said that
Khartoum – Director of the Central Bureau of Statistics and head of the technical committee for comprehensive agricultural census, Dr. Yassin Al Haj Abideen, has emphasized the importance of agricultural
