Death toll mounts in jade mine landslide in Southeast Asia

The area is 600 miles north of Myanmar's biggest city, Yangon, and is the center of the world's biggest and most lucrative jade mining industry.

Australia firefighters save world's only rare dinosaur trees

Firefighters have saved the world’s last remaining wild stand of a prehistoric tree from Australia's wildfires.

‘Fingerprints’ of climate change marking increasingly extreme weather events, research suggests

Drought, intense heat waves, exceptional precipitation and record-low sea ice were extreme weather events made more likely by human-caused climate change, according to new research published Monday.