China’s summer of climate destruction
China sees both extreme heat and devastating floods, including in areas where flooding was unheard of.
2023-08-28 07:54
France to ban female students from wearing abayas in state schools
The education minister says female Muslim students will not be allowed to wear the loose-fitting robe.
2023-08-28 04:17
Tropical system could threaten the Gulf Coast and Florida this week
An area of showers and thunderstorms in the Caribbean Sea could develop into a tropical system as soon as Sunday, posing a risk to Florida and the Gulf of Mexico coast early next week.
2023-08-27 22:28
A losing battle to save the lungs of Athens as wildfires grip Greece
In Agia Paraskevi, one of the villages dotted around Mount Panitha, just 15 miles north of Greece's capital, Athens, we found a familiar sight: a woman standing in front of a burned house, its black, skeletal roof beams reaching imploringly into the smoldering sky as if begging for mercy. Tears streamed down her face as she contemplated what she lost. She cried softly in almost resigned despair. Greece is once again in the grip of wildfires, and this year they are worse than ever.
2023-08-27 12:58
The indiscriminate devastation of Canada's raging wildfires
Fires in western Canada have burned homes and ripped up trees, laying them down "like toothpicks".
2023-08-27 09:15
Tropical system likely in coming days that could threaten the Gulf Coast and Florida
An area of showers and thunderstorms in the Caribbean Sea could develop into a tropical system as soon as Sunday, posing a risk to Florida and the Gulf of Mexico coast early next week.
2023-08-26 22:20
As young conservatives try to get climate on the agenda in 2024, denial takes the spotlight instead
During this week's Republican primary debate on Fox News, a young voter notably asked about the climate crisis: How would these presidential candidates assuage concerns that the Republican Party "doesn't care" about the issue?
2023-08-26 20:26
This week was a perfect snapshot of America's political mess
The exhausting view of this bizarre week -- with the first GOP presidential primary debate one day, followed by the fourth arrest this year of the former president the next -- is that everyone should prepare for so much more of this uniquely American and continuously unbelievable political spectacle.
2023-08-26 18:16
An arrest spectacle Trump's rivals don't want to see
Donald Trump's rivals agreed Wednesday that Republicans should look past the former president. But the iconic image of the week will be his fourth arrest this year, this time at the Fulton County jail in Atlanta.
2023-08-25 08:20
Republican debate: What they said (and didn't say) about climate
Asked in the first primary debate about climate change, only one candidate said it was real.
2023-08-24 19:17
Extreme heat kills nearly 2 dozen cattle, forces evacuations from a nursing home and shuts down an ice cream parlor
Nearly two dozen cattle died in Nebraska, more than 100 Missouri nursing home residents were evacuated and an ice cream shop in Iowa was forced to close as record-shattering heat engulfs more than 20 states.
2023-08-24 05:51
Judge lets Smartmatic expand 2020 election defamation suit against Newsmax
A Delaware judge on Wednesday rejected Newsmax's attempt to throw out part of a defamation case brought by the election technology company Smartmatic against the right-wing network.
2023-08-24 05:25