Postcards from Wuhan: One year on, residents share lockdown memories, hopes for 2021
It's been almost seven months since the original epicentre of the COVID-19 outbreak recorded a locally transmitted case
Costa Rican hybrid sailboat aims to reduce shipping industry's carbon footprint
Ceiba is a 45-meter cargo vessel designed to carry 350 tons of goods with an almost zero carbon footprint
Apple says no new business for supplier Wistron after India plant violence
Contract workers angry over unpaid wages destroyed property, factory gear and iPhones at the plant early on Dec. 12
Ginza shoppers clean hands, phones with high-tech wash stations
The stands clean people's smartphones using ultraviolet light exposure while they wash their hands
Soccer-Rapinoe questions her inclusion in FIFA team of year
Rapinoe said she appreciated being included in the team of the year but pointed out she had not played since March
Switzerland votes for same-sex marriage, easing legal gender change
Swiss parliament votes for "self-ID" for transgender people and same-sex marriage, which is likely to face a referendum
Planned Harvard balloon test in Sweden stirs solar geoengineering unease
An early experiment toward using sun-dimming technology to cool global warming has opponents fearing a slippery slope toward engineering the climate
OPINION: Rainforests are under siege but indigenous peoples could still save the Amazon
Five years after Paris climate accord, with the Amazon at risk, we can help governments scale up solutions that can protect forests and stop pandemics
With climate change focus, Biden filling environmental, interior posts
President-elect says his team "will be ready on day one to confront the existential threat of climate change with a unified national response rooted in science and equity"
Hundreds of Lebanon's most vulnerable migrant maids flown home, many more wait
Charities have been helping to repatriate stranded domestic workers, but thousands are still waiting to return home