Amid growing panic over the risks posed by rapidly developing AI technology, potential 2028 Democratic candidates are scrambling to respond — trying to show they are doing something, even as they acknowledge they need a reluctant Washington to step up
September 19, 2026Florida is experiencing one of its worst surges of dengue in decades, and the toll now includes a death
September 19, 2026President Donald Trump announced that all 50 states will join a program to provide Most Favored Nation pricing for some Medicaid drugs
September 19, 2026NATO's top commander, US Air Force General Alexus Grynkewich, took part in a virtual briefing on Friday for Pentagon policy chief Elbridge Colby on potential approaches
September 18, 2026The US state of Virginia is tightening permitting, commercial and environmental controls on data centers as political backlash grows against the server warehouses and the
September 18, 2026Italian cable maker Prysmian said on Friday it had partnered with Rio Tinto to supply electrical cables made with low-carbon aluminium for an Amazon data centre in Ohio.
September 18, 2026Rescuers save dolphin beached on Matlacha sandbar
September 18, 2026For years, scientists have explored ways to remove carbon from the atmosphere, including through direct air capture, changes to ocean chemistry so seawater can absorb more carbon and reforestation
September 18, 2026Flushing drugs or throwing them in the trash can have unintended consequences.
September 18, 2026Authorities imposed an overnight curfew in Nigeria's central city of Minna on Friday after security forces opened fire as hundreds of people took to the streets to
September 18, 2026In northeast Missouri, Addie Yoder, a corn, soybean and cattle farmer, runs two combines, three semi-trucks and
September 18, 2026At least 119 countries have asked for aid from the fund set by major greenhouse gas emitting nations four years before the deadly Nepal flood. It has paid zero claims.
September 18, 2026Deadly US strike on Iran school may have been a war crime, UN report finds
September 18, 2026US President Donald Trump's goal of building a large aluminum smelter in Oklahoma passed a major hurdle in late August when Republican voters nominated a
September 18, 2026Nearly 2 years after Helene, some bridges still await repairs in western North Carolina
September 18, 2026Weapons detection system alerts staff to loaded handgun at Joppatowne High School
September 18, 2026Long inaccessible 26-acre forest could become southwest Atlanta's newest park
September 18, 2026Berliners cycle, picnic and fly kites on the city's vast former Tempelhof airfield that opened as a park in 2010, yet developers are circling and whether
September 18, 2026Volkswagen is recalling 208,724 vehicles in the US due to a faulty steering rack bolt that could break and cause a loss of steering control, the US National Highway Traffic Safety
September 18, 2026A crackdown on immigration could cause labour shortages across the agricultural sector and threaten the upcoming wheat harvest, Australian farm groups
September 18, 2026A former Syrian government official who headed the Damascus Central Prison under ousted President Bashar al-Assad and was convicted of torture by a
September 18, 2026New Zealand has not had any discussions with the European Union about becoming an associate member, a spokesperson for New Zealand
September 18, 2026The U.S. confirmed a case of New World screwworm in a horse in New Mexico on Thursday, as the federal government prepared to resume imports of Mexican
September 18, 2026Killing endangered animals while logging a forest or building a dam would not be considered illegal unless the animals were specifically targeted, under a new interpretation of the Endangered Species Act
September 18, 2026Partners in the Shell-led LNG Canada export project could reach a final investment decision on its
September 18, 2026Exxon Mobil said floodwater overwhelmed a pump at its 275,000-barrel-per-day refinery in Joliet, Illinois, according to a filing on Thursday.
September 18, 2026Russia and China have vetoed a U.N. resolution that would have authorized U.N. experts to keep monitoring sanctions that were reimposed against Iran over its nuclear program
September 18, 2026The United States imposed sanctions Thursday on 11 Cuban entities related to nickel reserves and military enterprises that it said were part of a system that enriched the elite,
September 18, 2026Human remains found in the Grand Canyon this week have been identified as Timothy Allen Smith, the last person missing after the deadly flash flooding in late August
September 17, 2026Summer heat, drought could impact Minnesota's fall leaf outlook, DNR says
September 18, 2026New Hampshire to receive $10 million to combat veteran homelessness
September 18, 2026Parents and student complaining about hot classrooms at APS
September 18, 2026China is establishing a vast airspace security zone roughly the size of Italy around Beijing, barring all but commercial, approved business and emergency flights, months
September 17, 2026Hundreds of Missourians rally for pause of data center development, man arrested
September 18, 2026Dying sea birds washing ashore in Bay Area due to effects of warming ocean
September 18, 2026Former U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl, who represented Arizona in both chambers of Congress over nearly three decades, has died at 84
September 17, 2026Finnish authorities boarded and searched a target vessel in the Baltic Sea on Thursday in a live drill that officials said shows how
September 17, 2026King Charles III has urged AI leaders to keep artificial intelligence under control and beneficial for people and the planet
September 17, 2026Every day at dawn, eight veterinary vans pull out of the Smeura animal shelter, deep in a forest in central Romania, and fan out to villages where they sterilize
September 17, 2026In Silicon Valley's biggest city, residents and environmental groups are organizing against a wave of proposed data
September 17, 2026Bolivia's Assembly extended a state of emergency for 90 days on Thursday, citing persistent risks that demonstrators protesting the government's policies could mount new
September 17, 2026Shipowners have already ordered more than twice as many supertankers this year as in all of 2025, a buying spree worth over $20 billion that is the biggest
September 17, 2026Pakistan announced on Thursday a cut in fuel for official vehicles, bans on vehicle purchases by the state, foreign visits by officials, and official dinners, as part of a slew of
September 17, 2026Countries are embracing clean power and taking steps to use less energy because of the war against Iran
September 17, 2026In the opening chapter of Kim Stanley Robinson's “The Ministry for the Future,” a prolonged heat wave grips northern India
September 17, 2026A public opinion researcher explains why this group’s declining faith goes beyond partisanship and reflects a fundamental question about its sense of belonging.
September 17, 2026Decades of pollution at Pittsburgh brownfields left bacteria that evolved to survive it – and maybe help clean up contaminated soil.
September 17, 2026Chile, one of Latin America's largest oil importers, has started to consider adopting ethanol-blended gasoline as spiking oil prices this year have strained the
September 17, 2026In Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, Parvin Akter times her cooking to the neighborhood's availability of piped gas.
September 17, 2026The World Bank on Thursday said it attracted $112 billion in private capital in the year ended June versus $69 billion a year earlier, and more than
September 17, 2026Argentina's government has presented a bill to crack down on companies operating in the Falkland Islands, potentially escalating tensions with the United Kingdom over the territory
September 17, 2026Israel has added a tender for 2,167 housing units to its E1 settlement expansion plan, Israeli rights groups said of a project that critics say endangers a future
September 17, 2026South Korean restaurant owner avoids jail time in ‘ants on a plate’ accusation
July 23, 2026US alternative asset manager Brookfield will invest up to $600 million in India's ACME Cleantech Ventures to help the company develop and build green ammonia and green
September 17, 2026The water cycle you learned about in school is off balance. The consequences affect everyone on Earth
September 17, 2026Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has called for stricter regulations and sanctions against slash-and-burn land clearances,
September 17, 2026Flash flooding kills 3 in New Mexico as prolific storms soak the Southwest
September 17, 2026Australia will stop foreign students from bringing partners and children to accompany them while they study and tighten working holiday visa rules, a senior
September 17, 2026Indonesian rescuers plan to try to right a passenger ship that capsized in the Java Sea last weekend as persistent strong currents and big waves prevent them from making
September 17, 2026Mohammad Saeed had just turned 18 when he fled to Iran with his parents and
September 17, 2026Climate change is highly likely to have contributed to the catastrophic glacier collapse that flooded parts of Nepal and Tibet in late August, killing around 1,400
September 17, 2026An Argentine judge has ordered British and Israeli companies to stop developing an oilfield off the British-controlled Falkland Islands
September 17, 2026Human-caused global warming resulting in the Himalayan permafrost thawing was, in part, responsible for the catastrophic glacier and boulder collapse last month
September 17, 2026The House has approved a bill that aims to have artificial intelligence data centers pay for their substantial energy needs
September 17, 2026Here’s what one team of scientists thinks happened in Nepal’s deadly flood wave
September 17, 2026Trump administration’s endangered species habitat rule repeal takes effect, facing bipartisan pushback in Congress
September 17, 2026A new AP-NORC poll shows Americans are growing more concerned about the environmental impacts of AI
September 16, 2026Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs signs 264 bills into law after record 2,100 measures presented
September 17, 2026U.S.
September 16, 2026New research based on satellite data going back to the 1970s has documented major polar ice losses in Greenland and Antarctica — home to Earth's two great ice sheets
September 16, 2026Woman’s home saved by volunteer firefighters who used to be her students battling Gracemont Fire
September 17, 2026A local official and activists say that a gold mine collapse in Sudan has killed at least 82 people
September 16, 2026A building damaged by Israeli strikes collapsed suddenly in Gaza City, killing at least 21 people in their sleep, including 11 children
September 16, 2026A building housing displaced Palestinian families has collapsed in Gaza City and killed at least 21 people including 11 children
September 16, 2026An audit report of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Missing and Murdered Unit released this month reveals staffing challenges, a backlog of hundreds of case referrals and families left without required victims' services
September 16, 2026US officials met representatives of Yemen's Houthis in Oman over the weekend, five sources familiar with the
September 16, 2026France recorded at least 817 excess deaths between July 27 and August 20, when the country was hit by exceptionally high temperatures, the national health agency said on
September 16, 2026The Houthi capture of ground overlooking the Bab el-Mandeb Strait has dealt Saudi Arabia its gravest setback in Yemen in years, exposing
September 16, 2026Diesel at some Bay Area stations nearing $9 a gallon as CA prices hit record highs
September 16, 2026Minnesota farmers grapple with rising fuel costs ahead of fall harvest
September 16, 2026The U.S.
September 16, 2026Google has agreed its biggest carbon-removal deal yet, backing a project in Brazil run by developer Terradot that aims to both cut methane emissions from
September 16, 2026Gaza rescuers on Wednesday searched through the wreckage of a bombed-out apartment building that collapsed overnight, killing
September 16, 2026The 2027 Honda HR-V and 2027 Kia Seltos are two small SUVs that are easy to live with, offer enough room for everyday duties, keep fuel costs in check, and are versatile enough to be useful for a range of needs
September 16, 2026European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says a scorching summer has shown the EU needs new tools to tackle climate change
September 16, 2026Indonesia's wildfires could go on until early November with the rainy season expected to arrive late, Forestry Minister Raja Juli Antoni told local media on Wednesday, as
September 16, 2026A major report has found that 12.5 trillion tons of ice from Greenland and Antarctica have melted since 1979
September 16, 2026More than 20 banned skin-bleaching products containing mercury are available for
September 16, 2026Egypt is pairing a planned 2,000-megawatt wind project with its first turbine manufacturing plant, seeking to turn renewable energy into an industrial opportunity
September 16, 2026(Fix spelling of name in byline to 'Gunawan' from 'Goenawan'.
September 16, 2026At least 124 land and environmental defenders were killed worldwide in 2025, with Latin America accounting for 85% of the deaths
September 16, 2026A federal judge on Tuesday said more than 20 defendants including 3M, DuPont and Honeywell must face claims by Connecticut firefighters who said their
September 16, 2026Saudi Arabia issued security alerts over a range of territory on Tuesday, including in the holy city of Mecca and second-largest
September 15, 2026A new report by the Amazon Environmental Research Institute has found that gold mining poses a significant threat to Indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon
September 16, 2026President Donald Trump's administration is planning to sell to Israel a munitions package worth $2.8 billion, which will include tens of thousands of
September 16, 2026Israeli airstrikes killed at least five Palestinians, including two children and a Hamas armed commander, in northern and southern Gaza on Tuesday,
September 15, 2026Iran war expected to cause a spike in US inflation, according to budget watchdog
September 16, 2026The war against Iran has cost the U.S. more than $38 billion through Aug. 1 and will continue to cost up to $3 billion a month or more
September 16, 2026Residents object to New York City's tree planting plan over cultural impact
September 16, 2026Some birds survived the asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs. A fossilized poop can help explain why
September 16, 2026Japanese land prices rose 1.5% in the year to July 1, marking a fifth straight year of gains and maintaining the strongest pace of growth since the aftermath of the
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September 15, 2026Airlines affected by air traffic control staff shortages should do more to prevent delays from snowballing into broader disruptions, a
September 15, 2026The Kremlin said on Tuesday it welcomed a U.S. proposal for a Russia-Ukraine moratorium on attacking each other's energy infrastructure, while saying it was also necessary
September 15, 2026Nearly 2 years after Helene, recovery varies across western North Carolina
September 15, 2026Record-high diesel prices add pressure for Missouri farmers
September 15, 2026Judge orders pause on ICE detention facility construction in Gilroy due to environmental concerns
September 15, 2026Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (ADNOC) has bought millions of barrels of discounted crude from Iraq's state oil firm, three people
September 15, 2026Man pulls World War II-era machine gun from river
September 15, 2026Thousands of gallons of diesel spill from AI data center
September 15, 2026Linvilla Orchards adapts after spring freeze wipes out 90% of apple crop
September 15, 2026The U.S. poverty rate edged down to the lowest on record in 2025, while median household income hit a record high, the Census
September 15, 2026After a drone strike sent shrapnel flying into his wife's chest, killing her, Muhammad Aiyash and his three children fled with no belongings to a new makeshift camp for the
September 15, 2026Paris has been grappling with intense heat and illustrator Marina Antonova captures this in her series “Chronicles of a Heating Planet.”
September 15, 2026Renowned Indigenous Chief Raoni Metuktire is receiving palliative care at home in the Brazilian heartland after being diagnosed with cancer at age 94, his institute says
September 15, 2026Jason Eaton insisted he was acting on orders from the CIA and Mossad when he shot three Palestinian college students who were walking past his home a few days after Thanksgiving
September 15, 2026Trump administration removes climate pollution limits on power plants
September 15, 2026Officials say four people were hospitalized after a crane collapsed at a Miami construction site
September 14, 2026The Supreme Court will decide this month whether to hear a lobster fisherman’s challenge to a rule requiring electronic tracking devices on boats
September 14, 2026Costco has raised the price of motor oil sold under its exclusive private-label brand as well as limited how much of it customers can buy weekly as oil prices climb yet again
September 14, 2026'A slap and a blow to the gut': Drivers struggle as metro Detroit gas prices continue to rise
September 14, 2026El Niño just leveled up to super status. Here’s what that means for the weather
September 14, 2026Researcher discovers mastodon molar along California's coastline
September 14, 2026The president of Chubu Electric Power Co., Japan's third-largest utility, says he and the chairperson are resigning over manipulated earthquake safety data for two nuclear reactors
September 14, 2026Wildfire strategy tends to break into three distinct camps today, each focusing heavily on one approach over the others. Successful management requires them all.
September 14, 2026European leaders are highlighting growing competition in the Arctic as global warming opens new shipping routes
September 14, 2026Get ready for a 30% jump in heating oil costs this winter as Iran war drives up prices
September 14, 2026A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has issued a new order freezing President Donald Trump's attempt to limit mail voting for the midterm elections
September 14, 2026Expanding deforestation in Indonesia caused by the country’s wood pellet and chip industry is putting further pressure on tropical forests, Key Biodiversity Areas, and Indigenous territories in the archipelago, according to new satellite analysis from Indonesia-based nongovernmental organizations
September 14, 2026Fall makes its move on the Midwest and Northeast this week
September 14, 2026The conflict in Yemen is intensifying, as government forces launch attacks against Iran-backed Houthi rebels along the Red Sea and Houthis fire into neighboring Saudi Arabia, which supports Yemen’s government
September 13, 2026President Donald Trump's visit to Ireland has attracted protests, but in one corner of the country there is strong support
September 13, 2026Beijing is tightening its drone ban to include possession within city limits
September 13, 2026Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has warned that rising geopolitical tensions, supply chain disruptions and climate crises are affecting people worldwide
September 13, 2026Thousands of people have gathered in Romania’s capital to set a Guinness World Record with a miles-long table made of recycled materials
September 13, 2026The Atlantic hurricane season is unusually quiet this year due to a strong El Nino, which disrupts storm formation over that ocean
September 12, 2026Russian strikes have killed eight civilians and wounded dozens in Ukraine, according to local officials
September 12, 2026El Niño has broken Atlantic hurricanes. Now the season is breaking records
September 12, 2026The Twin Towers came down in a cloud of toxic dust. Its health impact has lasted decades
September 12, 2026Saudi oil pipeline shut down after attack triggers fires
September 11, 2026Thirty charred bodies found inside a burned passenger ferry in the western Philippines have arrived at a port for identification after a ship fire that killed at least 35 people
September 12, 2026A federal court has declared that the Energy Department exceeded its authority by forcing a Michigan coal-fired power plant to remain open past its scheduled retirement date last year
September 11, 2026Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area on a habitat restoration project when something that didn’t look like the rocks she’d been studying caught her eye
September 12, 2026Cornstalks sprout along Virginia canal after CSX train derailment
September 12, 2026The U.N. Security Council has voted unanimously to briefly extend the current arms embargo on Sudan’s western Darfur region while negotiations continue on a contentious U.S. proposal to expand the embargo throughout the country
September 12, 2026The price of diesel is hitting record highs just as many U.S. farmers are harvesting two of the nation’s largest commodities, soybeans and corn
September 11, 2026The Bab al-Mandeb Strait, a lifeline for the global economy, is in jeopardy
September 11, 2026Iranian allies captured a strategic Red Sea island in a vital waterway. Here’s what to know
September 10, 2026The Justice Department says an Afghan woman who was accused of supporting an Islamic State-inspired plot in the United States and whose case was the first for an obscure and long-dormant court has been deported
September 11, 2026A new study connects early winter heat high up on the plateau to the jet stream and, ultimately, storms headed for the US coast. The results could mean better forecasts.
September 10, 2026The death toll from a ferry fire in the Philippines has risen to 35, with 54 still missing
September 11, 2026A report that one of Trump’s aides went a year without routine vetting raises a question a former CIA executive knows well: What is that process for?
September 11, 2026A century ago, Americans barely ate soy. Now it’s everywhere in people’s diets, even in places they don’t look or expect.
September 11, 2026A senior British defense official says more than half a million Russian troops have been killed in Ukraine since Moscow's full-scale invasion in February 2022
September 11, 2026Rich nations are handing Nepal a climate crisis bill it can’t afford
September 11, 2026Two decades after U.S. authorities locked Khalid Sheikh Mohammed away at a military detention center in Cuba, the purported mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks sometimes seems barely any closer to being put on trial than the day he arrived
September 11, 2026Hurricane Lowell is being linked to at least two deaths in Hawaii after battering its western islands with intense winds and a heavy storm surge
September 10, 2026Clyde acquires 36 county floodplain parcels, opening door to parks and greenways
September 10, 2026CNN's Pete Muntean has the latest on the deadly Amazon cargo plane crash. The chair of the NTSB gives new details about the dead and injured, and the ongoing investigation.
September 09, 2026The AI boom and tariff uncertainty are pushing copper prices to record highs
September 10, 2026Rescuers are struggling to get into a passenger ferry that had caught fire off the western Philippines, leaving five people dead and 86 missing
September 10, 2026El Niño can affect agriculture, marine life and economies in profound ways, including slowing commerce at the Panama Canal. This El Niño is likely to be the strongest in over a century.
September 10, 2026Many levees built in the mid-1900s do not offer enough protection for today’s storms, and small rural communities in particular struggle to afford needed upgrades.
September 10, 2026Thousands of water systems nationwide still have not accounted for potentially dangerous lead pipes supplying homes and businesses with drinking water
September 10, 2026Why there will be a new moment of silence at this year’s Ground Zero ceremony
September 10, 2026If August felt like the hottest month on Earth … you’re right
September 10, 2026California has long been farm country, and its oceans soon could be, too
September 10, 2026Hurricane Lowell rakes Hawaii with its powerful outer core
September 06, 2026Malaysia's data centres are consuming more power as temperatures rise, leaving a 9 gigawatt gas-fired capacity gap for the government to fill by 2032,
September 08, 2026Britain will announce a trade ban on goods made in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank later on Tuesday, confirmed a senior minister, as part of the UK's efforts
September 08, 2026Mugger crocodiles bask along the edge of the shrinking reservoir, waiting like everything else in Sri Lanka's drought-hit Yala National Park
September 08, 2026Operations at some energy facilities in Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter, were halted on Tuesday following attacks by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis that wounded 73
September 08, 2026Rescuers in Nepal are focusing on three hydropower project tunnels where they believe dozens of workers could be trapped, authorities said on Tuesday, two weeks after a
September 08, 2026Democratic Republic of Congo plans to tighten control over geological data that guides billions of dollars in mining exploration, potentially
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