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Scientists documented more than 40 coastal species clinging to plastic trash, including mussels, barnacles and shrimp-like amphipods.

Colombia, which is one of the world's 17 mega-diverse countries and boasts tens of thousands of different species, is a target for wildlife traffickers drawn by its biodiversity.

Health Minister Joe Phaahla told a media briefing that he hoped that the variant could be managed without causing too many deaths.

Germany supports the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline, and Biden has chosen not to confront Berlin about the issue.

Didi had pushed ahead with a $4.4 billion U.S. initial public offering despite being asked to put it on hold while a review of the company’s data practices was conducted.

The Santo Domingo Slave Revolt of 1521 ushered in a backlash through "Black Codes" and repressive measures.

With tens of thousands of Russian troops gathering on Ukraine’s border, Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Vladimir Putin could quickly invade Ukraine for the first time since 2014. The U.S. and its NATO allies warn of harsh economic and political sanctions if he does.

As oil companies carve up more of the rainforest, a new study says no place in the world uses more oil from beneath the Amazon than California.

“It’s helped enormously to understand both the last moments of the site, but also the 100 years running up to it,” professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill said.

"The situation is our country is serious," Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters in Berlin.

“We have the instruments to have safe travel,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. “Let’s use those instruments to avoid this kind of, allow me to say, travel apartheid."