Some 250km from its closest neighbour – the Scottish highlands – there's a definite feeling of isolation here, where small villages perch on the edges of dramatic backdrops and resilient communities ...

The date was October 8, 1822, when, in a provincial town of the Ottoman Empire, local authorities completed a census of its ...

Every morning, Mary Kavutha prepares breakfast for her two young children using an induction cooker in her Nairobi home. Two ...

Although originally designed to decarbonise the EU's poorest economy, Brussels' cohesion policy has ended up supporting a ...

More than one-third of American households rely on natural gas stoves to prepare their meals. Burning natural gas generates carbon dioxide, which is the main driver of climate change. But cooking on ...

Temperatures in Europe hit a new high this summer, with hotter early-summer heatwaves triggering illness, deaths and the collapse of infrastructure across the continent. Transport buckled on Sunday as ...

London — Many Europeans have long seen air conditioning as an unnecessary, costly, carbon emissions-heavy indulgence. But as the continent's summers get hotter, claiming more lives as they do, that ...

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Brutal heat waves are coming more frequently in Europe, leaving millions of people struggling to adapt to punishing, record-breaking temperatures. There is little respite. Air conditioning is very ...

Gas stoves can release dangerous chemicals into residents' kitchens and homes, and a study has confirmed that a huge percentage of these appliances are leaking the carcinogen benzene. Researchers ...

Benzene, a compound linked with leukemia and other blood cancers, is leaking from gas stoves in Europe, a new study finds. According to the World Health Organization, there is no safe level of ...