Environmental groups embrace AI, even as they warn of data center impacts
Environmental groups worldwide are using artificial intelligence to analyze climate data, track forest fires and count endangered wildlife –
November 07, 2026Environmental groups worldwide are using artificial intelligence to analyze climate data, track forest fires and count endangered wildlife –
November 07, 2026Some Democrats are promising to push for more clean energy to help tackle rising energy costs when they take control of Congress in January
November 08, 2026Republicans lost state attorney general races to Democrats in key states in the November 3 midterm elections, with potential
November 08, 2026Local official Nejla Isik is among the villagers living beside a coal mine who demand that world leaders gathering in Turkey for COP31 climate
November 08, 2026A judge said on Saturday she would appoint a former top federal prosecutor to investigate whether Trump administration lawyers committed
November 08, 2026United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has a powerful message at the climate talks in Turkey
November 07, 2026Over 125 screwworm cases have appeared in US animals in 2026, including in elk. Here’s how America’s 11.5 million hunters can help contain the spread.
November 06, 2026U.S. Central Command says it has disabled a St. Kitts-flagged ship after it ignored warnings and tried to leave the region following a visit to an Iranian port
November 07, 2026At least 33 people were killed and 39 wounded in what the Houthi-run Saba news agency said were Saudi airstrikes on a village near Yemen's capital Sanaa on Saturday, in one of the
November 07, 2026A Florida chimpanzee sanctuary briefly had to deliver food to one of its 200 apes by drone this week because the property was swamped by heavy rain
November 07, 2026John Roberts sets the stage for publicly funded religious schools to reject children of same-sex couples
November 07, 2026Prosecutors in Paraguay charged the South American nation’s recently deposed president with two crimes linked to the collapse of a major bank, that has jeopardized the savings of hundreds of thousands of account holders, and unleashed the nation’s biggest political crisis in a decade
November 07, 2026Russia said its forces carried out a massive overnight strike on what it described as targets in Ukraine's military-industrial sector and energy and transport infrastructure in Kyiv
November 07, 2026In the countryside west of Istanbul, trucks line up to empty mixed household waste from the city of 16 million people onto a vast landscape of
November 07, 2026Delhi was the world's most polluted major city on Saturday morning, according to Swiss group IQAir's live ranking, as the Indian capital faced severe pollution forecasts a
November 07, 2026For people across South Asia, especially in northern India, Diwali celebrations coincide with the return of hazardous winter air, raising concerns about how to celebrate safely
November 07, 2026Rainy weekend for Northeast after storm system swamps East Coast
November 05, 2026Paraguay’s ousted president, Santiago Peña, was placed under house arrest on suspicion of breach of trust as prosecutors investigate the collapse of Ueno Bank
November 06, 2026The father of a 20-year-old private jet co-pilot who died in a crash in Florida said has listened to his daughter’s final radio transmissions many times to try to understand what happened
November 06, 2026The US Treasury said on Friday that it had imposed financial sanctions on eight money services firms based in Canada that it alleges have facilitated transactions with
November 06, 2026Residents are cleaning up from catastrophic flooding along the Tennessee-Georgia border that forecasters are calling a once-in-a-1,000 year event
November 06, 2026The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Pena has formed in the Pacific Ocean
November 06, 2026Google has acquired Crusoe's data center site in southeast Wyoming, the AI infrastructure developer said on Friday, a day after the Alphabet unit announced a $17-billion investment
November 06, 2026Henry Doorly Zoo elephants devour banana trees grown in Omaha
November 06, 2026Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney welcomes a Democratic push to repeal U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada after their sweeping midterm victory
November 06, 2026New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul have pledged more support for Puerto Rico as it remains mired in multiple crises
November 06, 2026Protesters have broken into a Microsoft data center construction site in Amsterdam
November 06, 2026Martin County flooding leaves cattle farmers struggling, residents demanding solutions
November 06, 2026Three Justice Department officials, including man behind Trump’s ‘grand conspiracy’ probe, resign since brutal midterm losses
November 06, 2026Dulux paint maker Akzonobel and U.S. peer Axalta have secured EU approval for their $25 bln merger after agreeing to sell assets in Europe to address
November 06, 2026Flood-damaged bridge cuts off Colorado community as officials race to rebuild before winter
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November 06, 2026Shaken by the accuracy of Iran's attacks on Bahrain and support for them among some Bahrainis, authorities in the Gulf island nation have launched a
November 06, 2026Scientists who study whales are heartened by an unexpected discovery of a baby right whale off Canada
November 06, 2026The European Public Prosecutor's Office said on Friday it had carried out investigations at the headquarters of Spain's railway
November 06, 2026Schools are often a hub for food waste: Parts of lunches brought from home don’t get eaten, or perhaps the cafeteria menu isn’t all that appetizing
November 06, 20264 things Democrats could do for the environment with a simple Senate majority
November 06, 2026Matthew Martinez has lived nearly all his 60 years on a piece of property on the Navajo River and never saw severe flooding until now
November 06, 2026Meteorite found in the Sahara shows what Mars was like 4.1 billion years ago
November 06, 2026Letting the ordinary become interesting again is a key part of studying natural history and animal behavior.
November 06, 2026As insect biodiversity declines, people and all the other species on Earth stand to lose the beneficial ‘ecosystem services’ bugs provide.
November 06, 2026Opposition to artificial intelligence data centers was part of midterm races across the U.S., with campaigns featuring them in hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of TV ads and many winners pledging to clamp down on the energy-hungry behemoths
November 06, 2026More than 40 pilot whales die in ‘distressing’ mass stranding on New Zealand coast
November 06, 2026Democrats are planning to unleash a flood of new legislation targeting artificial intelligence systems and data-center development when they take
November 06, 2026Tanzania's main opposition leader, Tundu Lissu, was cleared of treason but convicted of incitement and sentenced to four years in jail on Friday, in a case that rights
November 06, 2026Beijing has approved a law to improve China's Antarctic research and strengthen regulation of its exploration activities, the official Xinhua news agency reported on
November 06, 2026Pakistan's leaders spent two years courting US President Donald Trump, but after the Democrats' win in Tuesday's congressional vote, they are preparing for
November 06, 2026The Turkish energy minister has laid out plans for his country to wean itself away from coal and other fossil fuels as it prepares to host the COP31 climate change summit
November 06, 2026A Florida sheriff says a gunman who killed a woman before being fatally shot by a security guard at Citibank’s office complex in Tampa targeted the campus because he was angry over a $2,500 debt collection
November 05, 2026The Canadian government released its proposed budget on Thursday, the second by Prime Minister Mark Carney.
November 05, 2026A US-based clergy abuse watchdog on Thursday called for the creation of a truth commission in Peru to investigate sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, on the
November 05, 2026Alphabet's Google will invest $17 billion to build its first data center in Wyoming, the company said on Thursday, pushing ahead with a major AI infrastructure investment as
November 05, 2026Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has signed off on the National Guard ramping up its presence in the nation’s capital in military vehicles and boats as troops deepen their integration with local law enforcement
November 05, 2026Thunderstorms caused record flooding in two towns straddling the Georgia-Tennessee border
November 05, 2026A coalition of environmental and human rights advocacy groups has filed complaints with European authorities against JBS, the world's largest meatpacker, over alleged money laundering linked to illegal Amazon deforestation
November 05, 2026Couple and cats rescued after sailboat capsizes off Tybee Island
November 05, 2026Ukraine's renewed attacks on Russian oil refineries add to Moscow's difficulty in addressing domestic fuel shortages while it ships diesel to international
November 05, 2026There are just four races for U.S. Senate and governor that The Associated Press has not yet called
November 05, 2026The Great Pacific Garbage Patch may now have so much plastic, it’s changing the color of the ocean
November 05, 2026Democrats made sweeping gains in state governments in the midterm elections, taking control of several legislatures and shifting the balance of power across battleground and historically Republican-leaning states
November 04, 2026An assessment of the world's coral reef ecosystems has found that almost all face a high risk of collapse in the next 50 years mostly due to warming oceans and heat waves
October 22, 2026Record Election Day diesel and gasoline prices helped push Americans toward Democrats in Tuesday's midterms,
November 05, 2026Governments from New York to Amsterdam are imposing new restrictions on data-centre development as concerns grow over electricity demand, water consumption and the environmental
July 14, 2026Huggies maker Kimberly-Clark maintained annual sales and profit forecast on Thursday, and blamed a decline in organic sales on false claims about
November 05, 2026Flood-damaged bridge cuts off Colorado community as officials race to rebuild before winter
November 05, 2026Three charts that prove clean energy progress is really happening
November 05, 2026Cyprus's president says natural gas deposits off the country's coast offer the European Union a chance to boost energy security by diversifying supply
November 05, 2026A Finnish court on Thursday jailed the Russian captain and an Azerbaijani crew member of the cargo ship Fitburg for aggravated sabotage over damage to two subsea
November 05, 2026Dozens of pilot whales have been found stranded on a beach in New Zealand's North Island and rescuers are trying to refloat a handful of the survivors, the country's conservation
November 05, 2026Australia will join Indonesia's waterbombing operations to help put out fires that have been raging for months, a government agency said on Thursday, a day after a
November 05, 2026The Australian government has designated a seabed storage site off its northern coast where a Japanese company plans to store hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide using a technology that has divided climate scientists
November 05, 2026Turkey is spotlighting its renewable energy efforts as it hosts the upcoming U.N. climate summit
November 05, 2026Bank of Japan policymakers saw the need to keep raising interest rates with some signalling the chance of faster-paced increases, minutes of their September
November 05, 2026Senate Majority Leader John Thune and other senior Republicans on Wednesday asked a US appeals court to overturn a ruling that found the Environmental
November 04, 2026A boil-water advisory in Beaver County has residents and schools adjusting. Water researchers explain what E. coli in tap water means and how utilities make it safe.
November 04, 2026Shares of 3M hit an 8-1/2-year high on Wednesday after the industrial products company agreed to pay $7.35 billion to
November 04, 2026The US midterm election landslide that gives Democrats control of Congress starting in January is fueling questions about the longevity of the Supreme
November 04, 2026The Democratic architects of proposed bipartisan energy permitting legislation said on Wednesday they would not delay the bill in hopes of securing a better deal next year when
November 04, 20263M has agreed to pay up to $7.35 billion to settle lawsuits over groundwater contamination from potentially harmful chemicals in firefighting foam and other products
November 04, 2026Vice President JD Vance publicly broke from President Donald Trump’s defense of the Iran war in the wake of the Republican Party’s deep losses in the midterm elections
November 04, 2026Republicans suffered a sweeping midterm rout on Tuesday, losing control of Congress as voters abandoned President Donald Trump’s party
November 04, 2026Big victories by Democrats in congressional races and beyond in midterm elections on Tuesday were a rebuke to President Donald Trump and will likely affect US energy and
November 04, 2026New Zealanders vote on November 7 in an election dominated by the cost of living, housing, jobs, public services and how to deal with a more uncertain world.
November 04, 2026Emergency crews responded to an explosion at a chemical plant in Mississippi that sent a large plume of black smoke into the air
November 04, 2026The US Energy Department said on Wednesday it would loan 300,000 barrels of fuel oil to four companies from the nation's emergency heating oil reserve in an effort to
November 04, 2026A Ukrainian drone strike caused a fire at a logistics hub belonging to Russian e-commerce group Ozon in southern Russia, the company and a regional official said on Wednesday.
November 04, 2026Data-center stocks slid on Wednesday, while clean-energy shares rallied after Democrats seized control of Congress, prompting investors to
November 04, 2026When an aurora lights up the sky, electric currents can also flow through the ground beneath your feet.
November 04, 2026The global oil market has moved back into surplus after months of disruption caused by US-Israeli war with Iran, JPMorgan said in a note on Wednesday, while HSBC raised its forecasts
November 04, 2026Rich countries are falling well short of the $305 billion needed each year to help developing nations adapt to climate change, even as extreme weather
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November 04, 2026A California measure to tax the net worth of billionaires was too early to call Wednesday morning as the vote tally continued
November 03, 2026As Americans cast ballots in midterm elections that will decide control of Congress, voters told Reuters they were motivated by issues ranging from the cost of living to
November 04, 2026Industrial conglomerate 3M said on Tuesday it would commit nearly $7.35 billion over nine years to settle PFAS "forever chemicals"-related personal injury claims.
November 04, 2026Massive ongoing flooding in the southwestern U.S. has turned communities into lakes of mud, with some residents starting cleanup efforts
November 03, 2026Federal authorities charged an Oklahoma man with sending hundreds of letters containing white powder to public officials
November 03, 2026BMW cut the profit margin outlook for its core automotive business on Tuesday for the second time in five months, citing one-off costs from accelerating job cuts and restructuring it
November 03, 2026Justice Department sends criminal target letters in Alaska probe to people aligned with Democratic party
November 03, 2026New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill warned local port officials and terminal operators against accepting Russian diesel, saying those shipments break federal law.
November 03, 2026Mother calls for change after second person falls through gap between two Kansas City, Kansas, roads
November 03, 2026The Oregon Supreme Court on Tuesday struggled with whether to revive a jury verdict that could expose Berkshire Hathaway's PacifiCorp utility to tens of billions
November 03, 2026Brazil is ending its year-long presidency of the UN climate process with roadmaps aimed at curbing deforestation and accelerating a shift away from
November 03, 2026Russia bombarded Ukraine's energy infrastructure in waves on Tuesday, knocking out power to swathes of the country with dozens of missiles and hundreds of drones, a week
November 03, 2026Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk accused Russia on Tuesday of seeking to fuel "instability" in Poland by meddling in a dispute between his government and the president over the
November 03, 2026Spain's transport minister, Oscar Puente, announced his resignation on Tuesday over last week's deadly train crash, the country's
November 03, 2026The rising cost of living will be top of mind for Americans as they head to the polls in Tuesday's midterm elections which will determine control of
November 03, 2026Lightning strike ignites buried waste, starting monthslong underground fire in Pittsburgh
November 03, 2026South African exporters are weighing potential job losses and squeezed margins after Washington moved to end the country's duty-free access to the US
November 03, 2026Every August, monarch butterflies east of the Rocky Mountains begin their migration from southern Canada and the northern United States to central Mexico to hibernate
November 03, 2026Beijing wants to work with Moscow to bolster strategic communication and mutual trust in the military field, China's top general told Russia's Defence Minister Andrei
November 03, 2026Indian naval forces have freed an Iranian fishing boat and its crew of 20 hijacked off Somalia
November 03, 2026Dry land and little snow helped fuel a destructive 2026 fire season. New research shows active fire seasons are becoming the norm, and communities need to prepare.
November 03, 2026Coffee’s new status symbol is a machine without plastic
November 02, 2026German drugs and agrochemicals group Bayer is expecting a $7.25 billion settlement on its Roundup weedkiller to come before Christmas, CEO Bill Anderson said on Tuesday.
November 03, 2026Air quality deteriorated sharply in parts of northern India and adjoining Pakistan on Tuesday, with the onset of pre-winter smog making Lahore the world's most
November 03, 2026For 13 years, Rashid Ali has driven a three-wheeled motorised rickshaw around Lahore in eastern Pakistan.
November 03, 2026Cyclone Murasu made landfall along India's eastern coast on Tuesday, the country's weather department said, the second storm to hit the region in a week as
November 02, 2026Attacks on cargo vessels off the coast of NATO members Romania and Bulgaria have surged in recent weeks, the latest fallout from the escalating fighting between Russia and Ukraine in
November 03, 2026Indian farmer Amarsingh Gushinge wants to sow wheat and chickpeas in coming weeks to capitalise on attractive prices, but
November 03, 2026Rain is clearing but the risk of flooding remains high in storm-weary parts of the Southwest
November 02, 2026Suspected militants have shot and killed two police officers protecting polio workers during a vaccination campaign in northwestern Pakistan
November 03, 2026Singapore will work with ASEAN member states to strengthen the implementation of an agreement on transboundary haze when it chairs the regional bloc next year, the
November 03, 2026Leaders representing nearly a third of the world’s population are meeting on the tiny Caribbean island of Antigua this week to strengthen ties at a time of global political upheaval
November 02, 2026A group representing General Motors, Toyota, Volkswagen and other major automakers on Monday backed the Trump administration in a legal challenge to
November 02, 2026