Four countries of Africa—Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen are experiencing grave famine this year, endangering the lives of millions of children, says United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
UNICEF raises the alarm in a press release on Tuesday for humanitarian funds that is desperately needed for the children who suffer from severe acute malnutrition.
According to the reports,...
Each year locals from Golden Bay at the top of New Zealand's South Island know to expect a whale beaching at a narrow strip of sand curving into the Cook Strait, known as Farewell Spit. Ben Collins looks at what makes the area so deadly.
Each year, according to the conservation group Project Jonah, around 300 dolphins and whales are...
In the mountainous folds of California lie hundreds of dams that play a vital role in making it America's wealthiest and most populous state. The Oroville Dam crisis this week, in which nearly 190,000 residents were abruptly evacuated from a valley below the tallest US dam, illustrates the safety risks of the Golden State's ageing infrastructure in increasingly populated...
