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The CGI canine search-and-rescue team from the popular TV series makes its big-screen debut. David Daniel has a look.

In a bid to restore forests and fight climate change, Canadian startup Flash Forest aims to plant 1 billion trees by 2028, using drones and aerial mapping.

With no silver bullet to meeting the vast food production needs of Earth's growing population, these entrepreneurs are banking on the promise of vertical farms and robotics.

In the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, a high-tech greenhouse by AppHarvest offers a potential solution for a future of sustainable farming.

A female news anchor with Afghan television has released a video saying she was refused access to her workplace as a result of the Taliban's takeover of the country. Shabnam Dawran, a prominent anchor with the state channel RTA Pushto, says she went to her office and was told to return home, despite public assurances by the Taliban that women would be allowed to work under their rule.

Swiss-based Crowther Lab is trying to address biodiversity loss and climate change by using machine learning and artificial intelligence to map ecosystems.

CNN's Clarissa Ward reports on the hurdles Americans and Afghans are facing trying to get to Kabul's airport as Taliban fighters attempt to block access with gunfire and violence. This video has been updated to correct an editing issue.

Saint-Tropez (France) (AFP) – A forest fire in France's Var region, near the glitzy Riviera resort of Saint-Tropez, has left at least two dead and forced thousands of residents and tourists to flee. The flames have scorched some 5,000 hectares in a region known for its forests, vineyards and fauna since it broke out in the Plaine des Maures nature reserve on Monday evening.

Tatvan (Turkey) (AFP) – Underwear, an empty bottle and footprints betray signs of migrants sneaking around a new wall along the Turkey-Iran border and stirring worries in Europe following the Taliban's rise in Afghanistan. The Afghans who make it this far spend days hiding from law enforcement and nights devising ways to get to big cities such as Izmir and Istanbul before finding smugglers to take them to Europe.

Brazzaville (AFP) – The risk of spread of the lethal Marburg disease, detected in Guinea, is 'high' according to Dr Matshidiso Moeti. West Africa's first recorded case of the virus — which belongs to the same filovirus family as Ebola but is somewhat less deadly — was confirmed on August 9.