Bolivian authorities began clearing road blockades on Saturday after President Rodrigo Paz declared a state of emergency, enabling wider military deployment in his effort to restore order amid protests that have brought the economy to a halt over the past 50 days. Addressing the nation early Saturday morning, Paz said …

Even before Ukraine launched its largest attack ever on Moscow — striking a major refinery and causing thick black smoke to rise above the capital on Thursday — the effects of Kyiv’s intensifying drone campaign were being acutely felt by many Russians. In Crimea, which Moscow illegally annexed in 2014, …

Thousands of lines carved into Canada’s boreal peatlands for oil and gas exploration could be speeding up climate change, suggests a new study from University of Waterloo researchers. Known as “seismic lines,” they have been carved through the forests of B.C., Saskatchewan and especially Alberta for accommodating oil and gas …