Kaden Matsuda and Jackson Donlon were on a trip in Rocky Mountains last weekend when heavy snowstorm hit

Two Colorado college students have been found dead after going missing during a hiking trip in the Rocky Mountains last weekend when a heavy snowstorm hit, authorities said.

The bodies of Kaden Matsuda, 19, of Ridgway, Colorado, and Jackson Donlon, 20, of New York, were found on Wednesday afternoon in a basin of West Apostle Mountain, about 100 miles (160km) south-east of Aspen, the Chaffee county sheriff’s office said in a statement posted on social media.

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Thousands of runners will take part in the New York City Marathon on Sunday. Temperatures are expected to be unusually warm for November.

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Whether you’re tackling mould or reducing condensation, our expert shares his top tips

Researchers say increase in wildfires, pollution and spread of vector-borne diseases pose a risk to health

Palangkaraya is on the front line of an environmental crisis that has cloaked much of the region in a toxic haze

Exclusive: Coordinated airstrikes on territory held by al-Shabaab are driving the civilian population to find refuge alongside a river where rising water levels are a threat to safety. Is it a deliberate military strategy?

The water was rising rapidly. It had already reached Cayni Ali’s waist. Her home, five metres from the flooded River Juba in southern Somalia, never stood a chance. There was nowhere to go. Ali’s city of Jilib was under attack. Repeated airstrikes, said the mother of six, were pinning its population beside the rising river.

“The drones come all the time,” said the 27-year-old. “We hear them constantly. They kill animals, civilians. The town is big but destruction is everywhere.”

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© Photograph: Hugh Kinsella Cunningham

Policy brief says the three ‘compounding crises’ are hitting developing economies especially hard

This two-in-one machine cooled my stuffy home office and tackled dust and pollution coming off a main road