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Desert locusts eating vegetation.

Marking World Environment Day, United Nations officials today highlighted the need for a change in thinking and approach to ensure the sustainability of the Earth’s resources as the world population grows.

China's national flood and drought prevention office has warned of heavy floods occurring this year in the country following increased rainfall.

An aerial view of the Dadaab refugee complex in north-east Kenya.

Environmental concerns could check the growth of the golden age of gas through exploitation of the world's vast resources of shale gas and other unconventional natural gas sources, the International Energy Agency warned in a new report released here Tuesday.

At least 15 people were killed and many buildings damaged when a magnitude-6 quake hit northern Italy Tuesday, a week after a serious tremor shook the region leaving thousands of residents in panic.

A volcano in Russia's Far East spewed ash high into the sky on Tuesday following a series of tremors, local media reported.

Tropical Storm Beryl moved across northeastern Florida and southern Georgia Monday, bringing drenching rains, strong winds and the threat of flooding to the southeastern US coast, weather forecasters said.

An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale jolted Santiago del Estero province in northern Argentina early Monday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. No casualties was reported.

The US state of New Mexico has now been overtaken in some parts by huge wildfires.