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Three mountain climbers — two from the U.S. and one from Canada — missing for five days on Aoraki, New Zealand's tallest peak, are believed to have died in a fall, the authorities said Friday.(Image credit: Mark Baker)

With his nomination, Trump is leaning on a former business executive-turned politician to serve as the administration's envoy to America's most potent economic and military adversary.

Chile is poised to create it's 47th national part in the coming year, protecting wilderness at the southern tip of South America. That's thanks in large part to the work of a U.S. conservationist and her organization. We go to the bottom of the world to see the stunning landscape that will make up the park.

Backlash against massive solar energy farms drove strong rural turnout in Nevada may have helped flip the presidential vote there to Republican for the first time since 2004. But it's not a given Trump will derail President Biden's plans for more Nevada solar.(Image credit: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

The political instability in France — and simultaneously in Germany, where the governing coalition collapsed a month ago — could have wide-ranging consequences.(Image credit: Telmo Pinto)

Syrian anti-government insurgents claim they have entered the city of Hama — a major Syrian government stronghold.This continues their momentum over the last week, when they also seized Syria's second largest city, Aleppo. Since the war started in 2011, half a million people have been killed and many millions of others displaced.The Syrian Civil War has been locked in a stalemate for years. Now, rebel forces are gaining ground against […]

The mission to take four astronauts on a trip around the moon and back, previously targeting a launch at the end of 2025, has been delayed until at least April, 2026.(Image credit: Joel Kowsky)

An unidentified illness has claimed 80 lives in DRC. Investigators are on the scenes to determine what it is — and how much of a threat it poses to locally and globally(Image credit: PeterHermesFurian/Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Pope Francis, who heads the Catholic Church, has doubled down on his commitment to the environment with a new electric popemobile presented by Mercedes-Benz.(Image credit: Filippo Monteforte/AFP)

A powerful earthquake has struck off the Northern California coast, triggering tsunami warnings that were later canceled. Several aftershocks continued to rattle the area off Eureka. (Image credit: Haven Daley)