Decades-old palm trees in Rio de Janeiro flower for the first — and only — time

Towering talipot palms in a Rio de Janeiro park are flowering for the first and only time in their lives, decades after famed ...

Deadly Asian floods are no fluke. They’re a climate warning, scientists say

The unpredictability, intensity, and frequency of recent extreme weather events are overwhelming Southeast Asian governments, said Aslam Perwaiz of the Bangkok-based intergovernmental Asian Disaster ...

A blue schoolbag in a mass grave. Sri Lanka’s bloody past is re-emerging from the soil

Many of the gravesites that pockmark the north and east of the country are believed to contain the victims of atrocities committed during the civil war. Caught between warring rebel fighters and the ...