Environment

Earth Day Prompts Calls for 'Green' Acts

Sunday is Earth Day, observed every year since 1970.
Earth Day organizers have called on people worldwide to pledge "one billion acts of green." Those pledges range from residents turning off lights in their homes, to using mass transit for...

WFP resumes airlifts of emergency food in Mali

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Cheicknè Bah, a farmer in Yelimané in the Kayes region of south western Mali, with his sorghum crop...

Hailstorms in China leave 29 dead, devastate homes

Hailstorms in China caused havoc, killing 29 people from March to April 20 and destroying various houses, said statistics released by the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

'Dry' Africa has huge water resource hidden under its surface

The notoriously dry continent of Africa is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater, say scientists.