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By Amy Sood, CNN Efforts to save Australia’s endangered Tasmanian devil population led to thousands of sea birds being wiped out on an island in the Tasman Sea, according to local environmentalists. A number of the devils were transplanted to Maria Island off the east coast of Tasmania in 2012 under the Save the Tasmanian

By Paula Newton and Nicole Chavez, CNN At least 751 unmarked graves have been found on the grounds of the former Marieval Indian Residential School in Canada, the Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan says. The discovery was made in the days after Indigenous leaders began radar searching the school grounds on June 1, Cowessess Chief

By Rodrigo Pedroso and Jessie Yeung, CNN Brazil’s controversial environment minister, Ricardo Salles, announced Wednesday that he was stepping down from the position amid an investigation into allegations he obstructed a police probe into illegal logging. Salles’ term as minister since 2019 has been marked by high deforestation rates in the Amazon rainforest and a

By Max Foster and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Buckingham Palace has admitted the royal household is not diverse enough, as it releases its annual financial report. The Sovereign Grant report disclosed for the first time that the proportion of ethnic minority employees within the royal household is 8.5% — with a target of 10% by the

By Anna Bahney, CNN Business and Kevin Liptak, CNN The Biden administration is expected to extend the federal eviction ban that was set to expire at the end of June by a month, according to officials familiar with the matter. The extension, which is expected to come from the US Centers for Disease Control and

By Zach Wasser for CNN Business As home prices soared during the pandemic, people started racing toward the real estate sales industry seeking to cash in on the housing gold rush. But that surge in new real estate agents, coupled with a sharp decline in the number of homes up for sale over the past

By Angela Fritz, CNN Remarkable satellite images captured a year apart illustrate the severity of the California drought and the impact of the 2020 Bobcat Fire and Ranch 2 Fire in Los Angeles County. Between June 2020 and June 2021, Angeles National Forest went from green and lush to brown and parched. Water in three

By Kathryn Vasel, CNN Business When it comes to the future of work, PepsiCo is re-imagining the role of the office and giving employees more flexibility to choose where they work. It’s all part of PepsiCo’s new “Work that Works” plan. The office will no longer be the primary location for where work gets done,

By Simran Vaswani and Amy Woodyatt, CNN A series of Covid-19 restrictions have been introduced in Sydney following a growing number of cases in the Australian city. Residents of seven districts in the southern part of the city are restricted from traveling outside the metropolitical area, according to the latest update from the New South

By Aya Elamroussi and Joe Sutton, CNN Parts of Oregon and Washington state will be under an excessive heat watch this weekend as scorching, possibly record-breaking heat settles into the region. The excessive heat watch will go into effect Friday afternoon and continue through at least Monday, the National Weather Service said Tuesday. Portions of

By Hannah Gard and Monica Garrett, CNN It’s what the Southwest has been hoping for: rain. But the chance of showers and thunderstorms over the next few days will not provide the parched region the relief it’s looking for, and it could actually make the wildfire situation worse. Fire weather watches are in place for

By Nic Robertson, Mohammed Tawfeeq and Richard Roth, CNN Fifty of Afghanistan’s 370 districts have fallen to Taliban militants since May, according to the UN’s special envoy on Afghanistan Deborah Lyons, as the United States continues its military withdrawal from the country. “The Taliban recent advances are even more significant and are as a result

By Drew Kann, CNN Scientists are on high alert that the Amazon is careening toward a destructive fire season. Parts of Brazil and its typically lush rainforest are parched by drought and loaded with fire-kindling fuel after a surge of deforestation in 2020. Experts say the region has rarely been drier than it is now,

By Anna Bahney, CNN Business Home prices in the US continued to climb in May, rising at the fastest pace on record and reaching new highs. But those high prices and continued low inventory are squeezing would-be buyers out of the market. The median existing home price in May was $350,300, according to a report

By Amy Sood, CNN A plague of mice in the Australian state of New South Wales has forced a prison to evacuate at least 420 inmates and 200 staff, according to local authorities. The mouse infestation at the Wellington Correctional Centre broke down parts of the prison building’s infrastructure, damaging internal wiring and ceiling panels.

By Helen Regan, CNN The Great Barrier Reef has deteriorated to such an extent it should be listed as a world heritage site “in danger,” a United Nations committee said Tuesday — prompting immediate backlash from the Australian government. UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee recommended the listing, recognizing the climate crisis as the driving factor behind

By Rodrigo Pedroso, CNN At least 140 positive Covid-19 cases have been detected among players, members of delegations and service providers since the beginning of the Copa América tournament in Brazil on June 13, according to the country’s health ministry. Brazil was chosen to host the football tournament earlier this month despite concerns about the

By Hannah Gard and Brandon Miller, CNN The same storm system that brought tornadoes to Chicago late Sunday was prompting thunderstorm watches from Tennessee to Canada across the Northeast on Monday afternoon. Four severe thunderstorm watches were covering more than 30 million people and included major cities such as Nashville; Pittsburgh; Buffalo, New York; and

By Holly Yan, Monica Garrett and Judson Jones, CNN After pummeling communities along the Gulf Coast and inland, the storm known as Claudette strengthened to become a tropical storm again Monday as it deluged coastal North Carolina before moving away. Claudette’s maximum sustained winds intensified early Monday to 40 mph — barely over the threshold

By Zahid Mahmood and CNN staff Prominent Emirati rights activist, Alaa Al-Siddiq, 33, died in a car accident near London on Saturday. The UK-based human rights organization which she chaired, ALQST, announced her death in a statement on Sunday. “With deep sadness, ALQST mourns the death of its Executive Director, icon of the Emirati human