The number of people killed in the cyclone that hit Fiji at the weekend has risen to 29, with officials warning the clear-up could take months.

Plastic pollution is a massive problem in Indonesia. The country's rivers and oceans are clogged with waste, damaging both the tourism and fishing industries.

Biologists have described a new species of extinct plant, based on two fossil flowers that were trapped in chunks of amber for at least 15 million years.

Custom-made, living body parts have been 3D-printed in a significant advance for regenerative medicine, say scientists.

Global warming is likely to speed up the jet stream, say researchers, and slow down airplanes heading for the US.

Kenya could pull out of this summer's Rio Olympics if the Zika virus in Brazil reaches "epidemic levels", says the head of Kenya's Olympic committee.

US President Barack Obama has signed into law an initiative aimed at bringing electricity to 50 million people in sub-Saharan Africa by 2020.

Colombia's constitutional court has banned mining in the country's moorlands, also known as "paramos".

Some 260,000 people died in Somalia as a result of a drought earlier this decade
More than 50,000 children in Somalia "face death" because of the ongoing drought there, the UN says.

Volcanoes are primed to erupt on a time scale of days to months rather than years, research suggests.