The deforestation of the Atlantic Forest, Brazil's second most important forest, grew 57.7% in a year, from 2015 to 2016, when the biome lost 29,075 hectares, or 29 thousand football fields.

On World Oceans Day, 8 June, UNESCO will present the first ever global stock-taking of the oceanographic sciences at the United Nations' Ocean Conference, at the UN in New York from 5 to 9 June.

KINSHASA - Democratic Republic of Congo's Health Ministry has approved the use of a new Ebola vaccine to counter an outbreak of the hemorrhagic fever in its northeast that has killed four people, a

State authorities in South Sudan closed part of their border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo last week in an effort to prevent the spread of the deadly Ebola outbreak, declared by the Wor

Dakar, 23-24 May 2017 (IDEP) - As part of IDEP's policy dialogue series, a high-level roundtable on green industry, gathering Senegalese leaders, experts in industry, environment, energy, agricultu

Johannesburg - Malaria in Limpopo is under control, says provincial health spokesperson Thabiso Teffo.

More than 2.6 million Kenyans are severely food insecure and this number is rapidly rising.

WASHINGTON - A warmer, wetter climate is helping push dozens of Eastern U.S. trees to the north and, surprisingly, west, a new study finds.

The campaign is targeting 125000 children aged 6 to 59 months from communities of internally displaced persons in Banadir and Afgoye.21 May 2017 - The World Health Organization with the Federal Gov

KAMPALA, UGANDA - Emmanuel Mpaka lives in Bukasa at the edge of Lake Victoria and has done so since 2011.