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KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal's mountaineering community celebrated the conquest of the world's highest mountain with a rally of climbers, guides and others who gathered for International Everest Day.

VIENNA (AP) — Inspectors from the U.N.

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil (AP) — A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser and the temperature rises in places sunlight hits the ground.

NAGASAKI, Japan (AP) — In Japan, bobtail cats are considered good luck and Nagasaki is the place to find them.

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans says it's aware of an entangled North Atlantic right whale on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River estuary. It says the whale was spotted in the Saguenay-St.

WENDEN, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona's governor and the GOP-controlled Legislature are at odds over regulating groundwater pumping in the state's rural areas — and time is running out. Democratic Gov.

GENEVA (AP) — A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier thundered down a Swiss mountainside on Wednesday, sending plumes of dust skyward and coating with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month as a prec

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — After British journalist Dom Phillips was shot and killed while researching an ambitious book on how to protect the world’s largest rainforest, friends vowed to finish the project. Three years later, their task is complete.

The federal agriculture minister says the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is following "due process" as it prepares for a cull of about 400 ostriches at a farm in British Columbia. Protesters have called for the ostriches at the farm in Edgewood, B.

A Canadian tenant advocacy group says nearly half the renters they surveyed don't have air conditioning, as they press for protections from climate-fuelled extreme heat.