An ailing elephant at a Pakistan zoo died on Saturday, vets said, calling on the ill-equipped menagerie to evacuate her "mourning" partner to avert a second tragedy.. "It is now more urgent than ever that the remaining elephant, who is mourning her long-time companion, is transferred to a more species-appropriate location as soon as possible, to prevent another potential tragedy."
This year's Shanghai Auto Show signalled the end of the petrol engine era in China, as domestic electric vehicle brands drive change across the sector and leave foreign companies in the dust, analysts and industry insiders said.. "I think this show marks the end of the internal combustion engine and the beginning of the EV era," he added.
Scientists have succeeded in saving samples of ancient Arctic ice for analysis in a race against time before it melts away due to climate change, they said this week. . Studies indicate that the Arctic is warming between two and four times faster than the global average.
For millennia, Lake Prespa was pristine.. Straddling the borders of Albania, Greece and North Macedonia, Lake Prespa is believed to be home to thousands of species that rely on the water and its surrounding habitat.
Europe's CERN laboratory has taken its first steps towards building a huge new particle accelerator that would eclipse its Large Hadron Collider -- and hopes to see light at the end of the tunnel.. However, CERN has some competition: China announced in 2015 that it intended to start work within a decade on building the world's largest particle accelerator.
In a forest in southern Chile, a giant tree has survived for thousands of years and is in the process of being recognized as the oldest in the world.. In recent years, tourists have walked an hour through the forest to the spot to be photographed beside the new "oldest tree in the world."
Environmental campaign group Extinction Rebellion on Friday began four days of action in London, promising less disruption and more inclusion than the mass blockades that became its trademark.. Julia Hailes, a climate activist for 35 years, was among those who set up stalls in central London on Friday.
The world's glaciers melted at dramatic speed last year and saving them is effectively a lost cause, the United Nations reported Friday, as climate change indicators once again hit record highs.. "We have already lost the melting of the glaciers game, because we already have such a high concentration of CO2," Taalas told AFP. In the Swiss Alps, "last summer we lost 6.2 percent of the glacier mass, which is the highest amount since records started".
Angel Vukodinov fumes over the piles of unsold sunflower seeds in his granary in central Bulgaria.. "The average price of Ukrainian sunflower seeds sold in Bulgaria last year was $690 per tonne.
An elderly patient hooked up to a tangle of tubes lies struggling for breath in a Bangkok hospital as Thailand battles a "drastic increase" in respiratory problems caused by a spike in air pollution.. Piamlarp Sangsayunh, a respiratory disease specialist at the Central Chest Institute of Thailand in Nonthaburi, says she has seen a "drastic increase in patients since February".
