CFCs have been outlawed for years but researchers have detected new production somewhere in east Asia A sharp and mysterious rise in emissions of a key ozone-destroying chemical has been detected by scientists, despite its production being banned around the world. Unless the culprit is found and stopped, the recovery ...

The ongoing eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano has opened up over twenty fissures in a residential neighborhood and resulting lava flows have destroyed dozens of homes and structures, but the threat to the Big Island extends beyond just the reach of emerging magma. On Wednesday, a magnitude 4.4 earthquake rattled ...

Facebook shut down 583 million fake accounts in the first quarter of 2018, the social media giant said as it revealed the huge scale of abuse on the platform. The site has revealed just how much malicious content was being published and shared on the site for the first time ...

Amnesty says Monday’s killings may constitute war crimes as UN committee calls for ‘immediate end to use of disproportionate force’ Israeli forces faced accusations of committing war crimes and using “disproportionate force” against Palestinian demonstrators in Gaza on Monday on the deadliest day in the enclave since “Great March of ...

Donald Trump’s national security adviser has said it “is possible” the US will sanction European countries that seek to do business with Iran, following Washington withdrawal from the nuclear deal. John Bolton, widely considered a hawk on national security and one of those who pushed for George W Bush 2003 ...

The US president’s invective is dangerous but should surprise no one. He relies on assertions that reinforce prejudices but have no basis in fact Donald Trump’s voice in foreign affairs is one that slips between brash arrogance and oily smugness. He touts supremacy from behind thinly concealed contempt. In withdrawing ...

President Donald Trump has pulled the United States from the Iran nuclear deal and is set to reimpose severe sanctions on Tehran, in a decisive break with European allies that could also bring a new crisis in the Gulf. Mr Trump said the sanctions, which will violate the international nuclear ...

Cambridge Analytica, the firm embroiled in a controversy over its handling of Facebook Inc user data, and its British parent SCL Elections Ltd, are shutting down immediately after suffering a sharp drop in business, the company said on Wednesday. The company will begin bankruptcy proceedings, it said, after losing clients ...

Missiles could targets ships and aircraft, according to CNBC, and mark another step in the militarisation of the disputed islands China has installed cruise missiles and surface-to-air missile systems on three of its outposts in the disputed waters of the South China Sea, according to reports. The US news network ...

The Independent presents the first in an exclusive series from Socotra, an island paradise under threat from a neo-colonial takeover, the vagaries of Yemen’s war and the spectre of climate change Legend has it the otherworldly dragon’s-blood tree first grew on the spot where two brothers, Darsa and Samha, fought ...