Visualising the world’s addiction to plastic bottles. Around the world, almost 1 million plastic bottles are purchased every minute.

Worshipped by a billion Hindus and a water source for 400 million, the government is battling to save “Mother Ganga”.

A record number of emergency-level bushfires have been raging across two Australian states, forcing residents to flee and towns to be evacuated.

Maps and satellite imagery show the trail of destruction left by one of Japan's worst storms in decades.

Almost 40 percent of the pages in the 448-page Mueller report contain at least one category of sensitive information that has been redacted.

Southeast Asia haze: Residents in the city are suffering as some of Sumatra's largest wildfires rage nearby.

A number of bushfires fanned by winds combined into a single giant blaze north of Sydney on Dec. 6, blanketing Australia's biggest city in hazardous smoke.