Senior finance and central bank officials from Southeast Asia and major economies are meeting in the scenic Laotian city of Luang Prabang to discuss ways to help the region build resilience against shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic and natural disasters brought on by climate change
April 04, 2024
The big question: Would climate engineering like sending reflective particles into the stratosphere or brightening clouds help reduce the national security risks of climate change or make them worse?
April 04, 2024
Day-trippers to Venice who fail to pay 5 euros ($5.43) to enter the lagoon city’s historic center during a time-limited pilot program launching later this month will face steep fines
April 04, 2024
Pretty soon it will be beach season again at the Jersey Shore
April 04, 2024
A study conducted in Brazil found that Yanomami people examined from nine villages have been contaminated with high levels of mercury
April 04, 2024
The reason batteries come in so many types has as much to do with history as innovation.
April 05, 2024
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday defended a new $20 billion federal “green bank” program
April 05, 2024
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday said it would pause the implementation of its new climate disclosure rule while it defended the regulation in court
April 05, 2024
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the levels of the crucial heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere reached historic highs last year, growing at near-record fast paces
April 05, 2024
The earthquake, one of New Jersey’s largest on record, could be felt from Maryland to Boston. But don’t read too much into it.
April 05, 2024
Nelly Korda almost certainly kept her hopes alive for a fourth consecutive LPGA Tour victory by shooting a 3-under 69 on Friday for a three-day total of 1-under par in the T-Mobile Match Play
April 05, 2024
Floods caused by rising water levels in the Ural River broke a dam in a city near Russia’s border with Kazakhstan, forcing some 2,000 people to evacuate, local authorities said
April 06, 2024
Climate activist Greta Thunberg is among dozens of people who have been detained by police in The Hague as they removed protesters who were partially blocking a road in the Dutch city
April 06, 2024
New York City's skyscrapers might seem especially vulnerable to earthquakes like the one Friday
April 06, 2024
India's southern Andhra Pradesh state has become a positive example of the benefits of natural farming, a process of using organic matter as fertilizers and pesticides that makes crops more resilient to bad weather, and advocates say active government support is the primary driver for the state’s success
April 07, 2024
A raft of agreements between African countries and Dubai-based company Blue Carbon could give the company control over large swaths of land for conservation projects
April 07, 2024
State media say Russia’s government has declared the situation in flood-hit areas in the Orenburg region a federal emergency
April 07, 2024
A 4.8 magnitude earthquake shook New York City on Friday as the Yankees went through batting practice before their home opener
April 07, 2024
A trial is set to begin against BNSF Railway over the lung cancer deaths of two people who lived in a northwestern Montana town where thousands of people were exposed to asbestos from a vermiculite mine
April 08, 2024
China’s burgeoning production of electric cars and other green technologies has become a flashpoint in a new U.S.-China trade fight
April 08, 2024
A coastal scientist explains why marshes, mangroves and other wetlands can’t keep up with the effects of climate change, and how human infrastructure is making it harder for them to survive.
April 08, 2024
Russians in the city of Orsk gathered in a rare protest Monday calling for compensation following the collapse of a dam and subsequent flooding in the Orenburg region near the border with Kazakhstan
April 08, 2024
The European climate agency says Earth was record hot for the 10th consecutive month in March
April 09, 2024
Iran has released two conservationists who worked to save the endangered Asiatic cheetah before spending five years in prison on espionage charges
April 09, 2024
Police and Red Cross workers are engaged in a rescue operation at a swollen river in northern Kenya after a bus carrying an unknown number of passengers was swept away by floodwaters
April 09, 2024
New York City interim police commissioner says federal authorities searched his homes
Marxist-leaning Dissanayake leads early official vote count in Sri Lanka's presidential election
Trial in daytime ambush of rapper Young Dolph 3 years ago to begin in Memphis
World leaders are gathering in New York for the U.N. General Assembly. The outlook is gloomy
A historic but dilapidated Illinois prison will close while replacement is built, despite objections
Japan PM hopeful Ishiba sees 'room' for corporate tax hike, Kyodo reports
Southwest Airlines warns staff of 'tough decisions' ahead, Bloomberg reports
GM to lay off about 1,700 workers at Kansas plant
White Sox lose 119th game to tie the AL record as the Padres win 6-2 behind 3 home runs
No. 1 Texas keeps rolling behind Manning and Blue and routs ULM 51-3 in last game before SEC play