The concept of a carbon budget is dead simple: figure out how much CO2 humanity can pump into the atmosphere without pushing Earth's surface temperature beyond a dangerous threshold. The 2015 Paris climate treaty enjoins the world to set that bar at >>>

Up through the mid-1960s, the USSR was winning the race to the moon. So what... >>>

"The responsibility for the possible catastrophic consequences will rest with the United States," Russia's top diplomat... >>>

The president is sure to veto the... >>>

Spanish police say the "considerably nervous" man arrived in Barcelona from Colombia sporting a wig of "disproportionate... >>>

'Go Home' vans drove through London in 2013 as part of a government campaign targeting illegal... >>>

Almost six million people are under threat from rising flood waters across South Asia, where hundreds of thousands of people have already been displaced as a result of heavy monsoon rains. The flooding comes as India was still reeling from a... >>>

Kim Jong Un has been spotted riding in luxury cars like a Rolls-Royce Phantom. A new report which maps out how North Korea obtains luxury goods says that the country obtains the items through sophisticated networks, despite sanctions against the... >>>

The couple has virtually erased any trace of their taxidermy business from social media after receiving... >>>

The year-old Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo is now considered a global health emergency, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, in a formal declaration that many public health experts called long overdue. Emergency... >>>

Boris Johnson smashes record for most money raised by UK... >>>

From Iraq to Yemen, drones raise U.S. alarm over Iranian... >>>

Asylum-seekers gathered in Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Texas, grappled to understand what a new U.S. policy that all but eliminates refuge claims by Central Americans and many others meant for their bids to find a better life in America... >>>

Cambodia will send back 1,600 tonnes of plastic waste found in shipping containers to the US and Canada, an official said Wednesday, as Southeast Asian countries revolt against an onslaught of rubbish... >>>

How was it that fire ravaged Notre-Dame? And how was it saved? A New York Times investigation found that a miscommunication among security employees and flawed planning let the fire spin out of control in one of France’s most revered monuments on... >>>