Australia's Great Barrier Reef Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to conserving the reef, has partnered up with an agricultural technology company to greatly reduce the use of fertilizers and chemicals which cause damage to the world heritage site.

The road through Cristalina, Brazil is in the middle of the tropics, but the fields on either side look like they are covered in snow with little white puffs of cotton stretching to the horizon.

Brazilian woman Sabine Coll Boghici, 48, was arrested on Wednesday on allegations she was part of a bizarre scheme to defraud her 82-year-old mother, Genevieve Boghici, the wife of the late art collector Jean Boghici, out of money, artwork and jewelry totaling some 724 million reais ($142.42 million).

Australian scientists are confident they have unearthed strong evidence that the Earth's continents were formed by the impact of massive meteorites more than 3 billion years ago.

Under the Black Sea Initiative, 12 vessels have been authorized to depart the Ukrainian ports, a United Nations official coordinating the grain export deal said Wednesday.

A British man accused of being part of an Islamic State (IS) ­kidnap-and-murder cell known as the “Beatles” appeared in court in London on Thursday on terrorism charges after returning to the UK.

The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) called for actions to curb cryptocurrencies in developing countries in three policy briefs published on Wednesday.

New York City (NYC) could introduce a traffic congestion charge of up to $23 a day late in 2023, which a study released on Wednesday projected would reduce the number of cars entering Manhattan by 15 percent to 20 percent.

Thousands of Venezuelans marched through the streets of the capital Caracas on Tuesday to protest US-led sanctions and illegal seizures of the nation's financial and nonfinancial assets.

Torrential rains that have slammed South Korea's capital, Seoul, diminished Wednesday after killing at least nine people and damaging about 2,800 homes and other buildings.

Health officials in Europe are discussing whether to follow a move by the United States to stretch out scarce monkeypox vaccine supplies, with the World Health Organization (WHO) calling for more data.

Firefighters on Tuesday finally overcame what officials described as the worst fire in Cuba's history that over five days destroyed 40 percent of the Caribbean island's main fuel storage facility and caused massive blackouts.

Britain is making plans for organized blackouts for industry and households over winter when cold weather may coincide with gas shortages, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday.

US police hunting the killer of four Muslim men in a New Mexico city said Tuesday they have arrested their “primary suspect” and charged him with two of the murders.

Eating salt substitutes could lower the risks of early death from cardiovascular diseases, according to a new study by an international research team including Australian and Chinese experts.

Switzerland – famous for its punctual railways – celebrated the 175th anniversary of passenger train services in the country on Tuesday with a recreation of the first journey featuring a steam locomotive.

An ailing beluga whale that strayed into France's River Seine has died during a last-ditch rescue attempt, experts having decided to put the animal down to prevent further suffering, local officials said Wednesday.

New Zealand's long-tailed bat is seen as a tasty snack by cats. New research confirms what has long been suspected: Feral and domestic cats are repeatedly hunting and eating the country's native bats.

The billboards are hard to miss: Large and plastered all over Poland, they show two blonde girls in immaculate white posing in a wheat field.

In this installment, a river chief - hezhang in Chinese - on the Yangtze River's longest branch shares her impressions of the improvement in governmental policy support and people's awareness in water environmental protection.

Helicopters scrambled Monday to contain a days-old blaze that felled a third tank at a fuel depot in Cuba, as the search continued for 16 missing firefighters.

Japan's Nagasaki City on Tuesday commemorated the 77th anniversary of the US atomic bombing, with the international community urging Japan to see itself not as merely a victim.

The administration of US President Joe Biden announced Monday that the US will provide Ukraine with $1 billion worth of additional security assistance, the largest one-time weapons package since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Experts are looking at a plan to transport a malnourished beluga whale that has swum up France's River Seine back to sea before its health deteriorates any further, officials said Monday.

Britons living in Portugal are struggling to work, travel or even get healthcare because the authorities there have not issued the biometric document they need post-Brexit, a group representing them told AFP on Monday.

At least eight people died in Seoul overnight, South Korean authorities said Tuesday, after torrential rain knocked out power, caused landslides and left roads and subways submerged.

The population of New Zealand's kakapo, an endangered flightless parrot, has increased by 25 percent in the last year to 252 birds following a good breeding season and success in artificial insemination, the New Zealand conservation department said Tuesday.

In mid-May, Paula Sevilla and her roommates joined the many New Yorkers suffering under the city's crushing housing crisis, which has seen rents soar in the pandemic's wake.

The US on Monday returned 30 stolen works of art and antiquities to Cambodia that had been looted from the Southeast Asian nation, including from an ancient Khmer city, and illegally trafficked around the world for decades.

Eating fruits and vegetables is better for the planet than eating meat and cheese, but a new study by scientists released Monday showed chips and sugary drinks also have a very low environmental impact.

Large-scale volcanic eruptions started 100 kilometers underground over millions of years, a new research published in the latest edition of Nature has revealed.

The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden announced Monday that the United States will provide Ukraine with 1 billion U.S. dollars worth of additional security assistance, the largest one-time weapons package since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Iran does not seek possession of nuclear weapons, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said in a phone conversation with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday.

US Senate on Sunday approved the Democratic spending bill on tax policy, healthcare and climate change, which is scaled down from what President Joe Biden and many Democrats envisioned in 2021.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday welcomed the announcement of a cease-fire in Gaza and Israel, said his spokesperson.

A man described as “mentally affected” injured a Japanese sailor during a World War II memorial ceremony in Solomon Islands Monday before bystanders, including military personnel, overpowered him.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador called Sunday for intensified efforts to save 10 workers trapped in a flooded coal mine, during a visit to see firsthand the rescue operation.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, sent a message of condolence on Monday to Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel over explosions at a fuel storage facility in Cuba.

A stolen statue of Lord Ernest Rutherford, a pioneer of nuclear physics, will be reunited with its feet after a quick-thinking police officer dived into an icy New Zealand river to arrest the suspected thief on Sunday.

Researchers from Australia's Monash University have completed a study of vaccine-associated myocarditis risk in adolescents, showing that risks are “mild” and outweighed by the long-term risks of COVID-19.

Police in the US state of New Mexico on Sunday asked for the public's help in locating a "vehicle of interest" in their probe of four fatal shootings of Muslim men whose slayings in Albuquerque over the past nine months are believed by investigators to be related.

China has achieved great success and the Chinese government's governance capability is just what China needs, Patty Chen, Suriname Ambassador to China, told the Global Times in an exclusive interview.

Editor's Note: As the world grapples with unilateralism-induced crises that have threatened global peace, China continues to be a shining example on the international stage, injecting a stable, developmental and cooperative momentum. Over the last decade, China, under the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC), has achieved great success in record time, hitherto unseen in world history, including lifting nearly 100 million people out of absolute poverty, the unreserved promotion of multilateralism, and the adoption of a win-win development strategy among countries. In this series, the Global Times will interview diplomats from various countries to get their views on China's development and what it means for the world as a whole. In this installment, Global Times reporters interviewed Manolo Pichardo, secretary of international relations of Fuerza del Pueblo (People's Force Party) of Dominican Republic, and Suriname Ambassador to China Patty Chen.

Clutching a machete and a cell phone, indigenous leader Vanderlei Weraxunu tours his community's future home, a swathe of tropical forest land north of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where his people will finally have water.

Faced with a historic drought and threatened by desertification, Spain is rethinking how it spends its water resources, which are used mainly to irrigate crops.

A large tortoise on the track caused trains to come to a halt in southeastern England, a rail company informed frazzled travellers Monday.

The US Senate on Sunday repelled attempts to amend a $430 billion measure sought by President Joe Biden, as Democrats forged ahead with their bill to control climate change and cut prescription drug costs for the elderly, while tightening enforcement on tax payments from corporations and the wealthy.

Gustavo Petro became Colombia's first leftist president on Sunday, elected by voters who hope he can carry out social and economic reforms meant to reduce violence and deep inequality in the country.

Israel agreed on an Egyptian-proposed humanitarian cease-fire with Gaza that would take effect at 10 pm (19:00 GMT) on Sunday, an Egyptian security source reportedly said.

Police in the US state of New Mexico and federal agencies were probing the murders of four Muslim men to determine if the killings, the latest of which happened on Friday evening, were linked while the state's governor described them as "targeted killings."

Police in Brazil said they ­arrested five new suspects on Saturday in the murder of a British journalist and a Brazilian indigenous expert in the Amazon, accusing all nine people detained so far of involvement in an illegal fishing ring.

A major operation to rescue 10 trapped Mexican coal miners was approaching a crucial moment on Saturday, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said, raising the hopes of desperate relatives.

French authorities were preparing Saturday to give vitamins to a beluga whale that swam way up the Seine river, as they raced to save the malnourished creature, which has so far refused food.

Thai police have detained the owner of a nightclub in connection with a fire at the venue that killed 15 people, officers confirmed Sunday.

Elon Musk on Saturday challenged Twitter Inc Chief Executive Officer Parag Agrawal to a public debate about the percentage of bots on the social media platform.

Millions of boxes of oranges are spoiling in containers stranded at European ports as South Africa and the European Union lock horns in a dispute over import rules, citrus growers have said.

Jumping from rock to rock over a creek formed off Austria's Jamtal glacier, scientist Andrea Fischer worries that precious scientific data will be irreversibly lost as the snow and ice melt faster than ever.

The whole world knows that there is but one China on planet earth and that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory with the Government of the People's Republic of China being the sole legal government to represent the whole of China. This solid fact was crystal clearly recognized by United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) via its Resolution number 2758 back in 1971.

India's daily COVID-19 caseload has inched closer to the 20,000 mark after remaining below it for the past three days, officials said on Thursday.

Former Conservative health minister Sajid Javid announced Wednesday his support for Liz Truss as the UK's next ­Conservative prime minister, adding to the roster of senior Tories backing her leadership bid.

A Texas jury on Wednesday began weighing how much in damages a prominent far-right US conspiracy theorist should pay for claiming that the massacre of 20 children and six teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School was a "hoax."

European judges on Wednesday refused to issue an emergency ruling on maintaining life support for a British boy at his parents' request, as they fight a desperate legal battle to keep him alive against the advice of medics.

Rescuers battled Wednesday to free 10 workers believed to be trapped in a coal mine in northern Mexico, while three others were found alive, authorities said.

Bridges collapsed and rivers burst their banks as heavy rain lashed northern Japan on Thursday, with 200,000 residents urged to evacuate as authorities warned of dangerous flooding.

A huge fire broke out Thursday in a popular forest in western Berlin next to a police munitions storage site, sending plumes of smoke into the skies and setting off intermittent explosions.

The chance to earn an annual salary of C$100,000 ($78,000) by tasting more than 3,500 candies, all from the comfort of your couch, sounds like a pretty sweet deal.

Parts of Australia's beleaguered Great Barrier Reef now have the highest levels of coral cover seen in decades, a government report said Thursday, suggesting the aquatic wonder could survive given the chance.

To mark the launch of the National Science week in Australia, the nation's peak body for science and technology, ­Science and Technology Australia (STA), has revealed the public's high rates of trust in science.

A volcano erupted in Iceland on Wednesday near the capital Reykjavik, spewing red hot lava and plumes of smoke out of a fissure in an uninhabited valley after several days of intense seismic activity.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) decided late Tuesday to reassess the agreement on the withdrawal of the United Nations stabilization mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) amid escalating protests against the MONUSCO in the eastern part of the country, government spokesman Patrick Muyaya said.

Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen on Wednesday proposed the establishment of a stand-alone secretariat for coordinating implementation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) free trade agreement, which entered into force in January.

Abortion rights advocates celebrated Tuesday as the ­midwestern US state of Kansas voted to maintain the right to the procedure, the first major poll on the flashpoint issue since the Supreme Court overturned nationwide access in June.

A Japanese prison that banned a convict from wearing his glasses because they made him look “menacing” has come under fire from lawyers who call the decision a rights violation.

At least 112 women have been hospitalized after a gas leak at an apparel manufacturing plant in India, local media reports said Wednesday.

New Zealand video game developer PikPok found a solution to prolonged difficulty in finding experienced workers: Colombia.

Best-selling author Stephen King is horrified by an upcoming merger of major book publishers.

Australian researchers believe that they may have found a reason why children generally did much better than adults throughout the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it is all to do with their young noses.

World health experts have vowed to act with courage to end AIDS at the just-concluded 24th International AIDS Conference.

Dutch farmers' rowdy protests against government climate plans have caused a stir at home and abroad, with populists worldwide jumping on the bandwagon and even former US president Donald Trump backing them.

Thailand is looking forward to the participation of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, which will be held in November this year in Bangkok, an official invitation will be sent soon, Thailand's Ambassador to Russia Sasivat Wongsinsawat told Sputnik.

Russia and Cambodia are considering a possibility to switch to national currencies in mutual settlements, Russian Ambassador to Cambodia Anatoly Borovik said in an interview with Sputnik.

The US, for the past many decades has been claiming to be the custodian of justice across the world and the Champion of Human Rights. The American government, in connivance with their media and intelligence agencies, has been exporting a fake narrative across the world that the US justice system is the best in the world and thus it gives Washington the right to ensure dispensing of justice across the world and by virtue of that, to safeguard the human rights with their version of 'Human Rights' in every part of the world.

Sotland's ruling nationalists on Tuesday angrily rounded on British Conservative front-runner Liz Truss, after she accused their leader Nicola Sturgeon of being a pro-independence “attention seeker.”

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi on Monday called for a national dialogue to settle the current political deadlock amid protests by supporters of rival Shiite parties in Baghdad.

A Texas militia member was sentenced to more than seven years in prison on Monday, the longest jail term yet for a participant in the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol by supporters of former president Donald Trump.

Somalia and two United Nations agencies on Monday vowed to step up efforts to ensure breastfeeding-friendly environments for mothers and babies in all health facilities and workplaces in the country.

A village in Madagascar where a criminal gang killed dozens of people has been left deserted after survivors fled fearing fresh attacks, a rights group said Monday, as police made the first arrests.

France and parts of England saw their driest July on record, the countries' weather agencies said on Monday, exacerbating stretched water resources that have forced restrictions on both sides of the Channel.

An Israeli law that goes into effect on Monday limits cash payments in one business transaction to 6,000 new shekels ($1,785), as the country works to combat organized crime, money laundering and tax evasion.

A land iguana that disappeared more than a century ago from one of the Galapagos Islands is reproducing naturally following its reintroduction there, Ecuador announced Monday.

Conjoined twins born in Brazil with a fused head and brain have been separated in what doctors described Monday as the most complex surgery of its kind, which they prepared for using virtual reality.

Firefighters faced "extremely dangerous" conditions on Monday as they battled to save a community of 8,000 residents, with lightning strikes threatening to worsen a blaze that has already killed at least two people and become California's biggest fire of the year.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday welcomed the first commercial vessel sailing from Ukraine's Odesa under the Black Sea Grain Initiative brokered by the United Nations and Türkiye.

U.S. President Joe Biden announced Monday evening that al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri had been killed in a drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Ukraine has received 500 million euros (about $512 million) as the first tranche of financial assistance from the European Union (EU), Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Monday.

"I got to know China at a very young age. I remember it was 1964 when then Premier Zhou Enlai visited Ghana. At that time, many Ghanaian kids know how to pronounce the three words of "Zhou Enlai." When receiving the special interview from Haiwainet the other day, Dr. Winfred Nii Okai Hammond, Ambassador of Ghana to China started with a clip of memory. "I know a lot about the beginning of the China-Ghana friendship and I've been following China's development ever since." Hammond commented, "I've always hoped that one day I could come to China to work. And now my wish has come true."

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed outrage after UN peacekeepers opened fire and killed two residents in a border town between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda.

British Conservative front-runner Liz Truss won another heavyweight endorsement on Monday as Tory members began a month of voting to decide the next occupant of 10 Downing Street.

The first cargo ship carrying grain has left the Black Sea port of Odesa in southern Ukraine, Ukraine's Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said on Monday.

Gunmen killed eight Nigerian security personnel, including three policemen and five vigilantes, in an ambush in a central state, a local government spokesperson said Sunday.