Stockholm announces British author Kazuo Ishiguro, best known for his novel "The Remains of the Day" , has won the 2017 Nobel Literature Prize. The 69-year-old author reacts to the news in London.

Amid America’s longest Government shutdown, facilities in Florida’s National Parks are functioning, thanks to the intervention of non-governmental organizations.

Almost a year after conservationists sent out a plea to help save a species of Bolivian aquatic frog by finding a mate for the last remaining member, Romeo, his very own Juliet has been tracked down deep inside a forest.

As many as a million fish are believed to have died along the banks of a major river system in drought-battered eastern Australia, and authorities are warning of more deaths to come.

Bamboo seats and a mud stage in the middle of the forest - this is where a small, one-of-a-kind theatre festival called "Under the Sal Tree" takes place each December in India's Assam state, aimed at highlighting environmental and sustainability issues in a country known for its pollution.

Global warming outpaces efforts to slow it, as the gap between greenhouse gas emissions and levels needed to achieve the Paris climate treaty temperature goals continues to widen.