U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says some countries won’t accept that the world’s oceans belong to everyone and their “egoism” is holding up a global agreement on protecting these vast tracts of the planet

The father of a Moroccan man facing possible execution after being captured by Ukrainian separatists appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to intervene to spare his son from the firing squad

German officials say that numerous priceless artifacts taken from African nations during colonial times will be permanently returned

U.S. health authorities are facing a critical decision: whether to offer new COVID-19 booster shots this fall that are modified to better match the latest changes of the shape-shifting coronavirus

Australia’s new government has blamed the previous administration’s inaction for an increase in the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions last year

Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first elected leftist president, will take office in August with ambitious proposals to halt the record-high deforestation rates in the Amazon

Pfizer says tweaking its COVID-19 vaccine to better target the omicron variant is safe and boosts protection

A federal court has put a temporary hold on the government's order for Juul to stop selling its electronic cigarettes

NASA's plan to explore a strange metal asteroid is on hold