A sharp dip in violence in Colombia's second-biggest city has attracted a flood of tourists to Medellin's vivid colors, busy cafes and booming nightlife
February 22, 2024
As the aviation sector seeks ways to make air travel less polluting and more sustainable, aerospace company Embraer and South Korean automaker Hyundai are among the companies betting on a new form of air travel -– air taxis
February 22, 2024
A whale as long as a train car that died after straying into a port in Osaka last month is set to be buried until it naturally becomes a skeletal specimen for a local museum
February 22, 2024
Drivers in eight Midwestern states will be able to fuel up with a higher blend of ethanol throughout the year under a ruled finalized by the Environmental Protection Agency
February 22, 2024
Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin have passed a bill that would unlock $125 million to fight so-called forever chemicals
February 22, 2024
The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has rejected several proposed hydropower projects on the largest Native American reservation in the U.S. The commission has also created a policy that essentially gives tribes veto power over such projects early on
February 23, 2024
Tributes are pouring in for Flaco, the beloved Eurasian eagle-owl that became a feel-good New York story after escaping its Central Park Zoo enclosure and flying free around Manhattan
February 24, 2024
Facing a housing shortage, Oregon lawmakers are considering a bill that would tweak the state's pioneering land use law
February 25, 2024
Water has long been a vulnerability for the tropical island nation of Singapore, which gained freedom from neighboring Malaysia in the 1960s
February 25, 2024
Zoologists are investigating contributing factors in the death of New York City’s celebrity owl
February 25, 2024
An Ohio commission has awarded bids to frack oil and gas under state parks despite statewide backlash and an ongoing investigation into possibly fraudulent support
February 26, 2024
As a powerful winter storm dumped deep snow in parts of the West on Monday, much of the central United States was unseasonably warm
February 26, 2024
The European Union is on the brink of approving a major plan to fight climate change and better protect nature in the 27-nation bloc after protests from farmers and opposition from the biggest party in parliament led it to be diluted
February 27, 2024
President Joe Biden's administration is announcing funding for 17 projects to expand renewable energy access on Native American reservations and in other rural areas
February 27, 2024
A top court has ruled that two residents of the tiny Caribbean island of Barbuda have the right to challenge construction of an airstrip that critics say endangers fragile ecosystems and was begun without any permits
February 27, 2024
The Environmental Protection Agency says 25 toxic waste sites in 15 states will be cleaned up as part of a $1 billion infusion to the federal Superfund program
February 27, 2024
Local activists and international environmental groups want Nigeria’s government to delay approving the $2.4 billion sale of oil company Shell’s onshore assets
February 28, 2024
Authorities say an offshore oil spill that prompted Trinidad and Tobago to declare a national emergency earlier this month has reached the shores of the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire hundreds of miles away
February 28, 2024
Wildfires raging in the Texas Panhandle have been growing at a staggering rate, resulting in widespread evacuations
February 28, 2024
Government scientists have cooked up a new concept for how to potentially cool an overheating Earth: Fiddle with the upper atmosphere to make it a bit drier
February 28, 2024
A Native American tribe with one of the largest outstanding claims to water in the Colorado River basin is closing in on a settlement
February 29, 2024
The small town of Fritch is again picking through the rubble of a Texas wildfire, a decade after another destructive blaze burned hundreds of homes and left deep scars in the Panhandle community
February 29, 2024
A billionaire-backed proposal to build an eco-friendly California city from scratch is off to a bumpy start in qualifying its voter initiative for the Nov. 5 ballot
February 29, 2024
A new study says U.S. ski areas lost $5 billion from 2000 to 2019 as a result of human-caused climate change
February 29, 2024
Zambia’s president Hakainde Hichilema has declared the country’s debilitating drought a national disaster and emergency
February 29, 2024
Southwest Airlines warns staff of 'tough decisions' ahead, Bloomberg reports
Sri Lanka's Marxist-leaning Dissanayake in early lead to become president
California firefighter accused of sparking blazes in the state's wine country
US not responsible for violence in Mexico's Sinaloa state, ambassador says
Russian strike on apartment block in Kharkiv injures 12
GM to lay off about 1,700 workers at Kansas plant
Tens of thousands of bees found living in a Maine family’s farmhouse
Mullings' 2nd TD with 37 seconds left lifts No. 18 Michigan to 27-24 win over No. 11 USC
No. 3 Ohio State looks ahead to Big Ten schedule after rolling through nonconference games
Garrett Greene throws two late TD passes and West Virginia beats Kansas 32-28