This article is part of our special section on the Climate Forward event that will include policy and climate leaders from around the world. The 351-mile LOSSAN rail corridor in Southern California, the second busiest in the United States, is under siege. Running from San Diego to San Luis Obispo, the oceanside tracks sitting atop…

This article is part of our special section on the Climate Forward event that will include policy and climate leaders from around the world. The Resource Recovery Room beneath Mercedes-Benz Stadium was humming with activity one afternoon last month. Workers fed food into a compactor for compostable material, aluminum cans into another compactor and tossed…

This article is part of our special section on the Climate Forward event that will include policy and climate leaders from around the world. The urgent need to address the conditions that are causing climate change — and to lessen the impact as temperatures climb and environmental catastrophes mount — has drawn widespread engagement from…

This article is part of our special section on the Climate Forward event that will include policy and climate leaders from around the world. On any given day, there is good reason to be both exceedingly optimistic about the progress being made to combat climate change, and also deeply concerned about the threats presented by…

This article is part of our special section on the Climate Forward event that will include policy and climate leaders from around the world. Spiders are usually unwelcome at an art exhibition: They are hastily removed, along with their webs, to avoid scaring visitors and giving an impression of filth. Yet they are the centerpiece…

Climate and Ukraine take center stage at the U.N. The U.N. secretary general, António Guterres, convened a special summit yesterday in New York designed to shine a spotlight on the most ambitious global leaders on climate policy. The leaders of the U.S. and China, the world’s biggest polluters, did not get a turn at the…

Is it time? Are we living in the future? Are the robots taking over? No … but for Austin-based startup Apptronik, robots are being developed and are here to stay. Meet Apollo: Apptronik’s latest “general purpose humanoid robot” powered by artificial intelligence (AI).  Apollo is a 5-foot-8-inch, 160-pound robot intended to help out people in…

This article is part of our special section on the Climate Forward event that will include policy and climate leaders from around the world. When delegates from countries around the world meet this week at the United Nations, they will begin to ratify a landmark agreement for environmental conservation, climate-change mitigation and biodiversity protection that…

Talking with dogs, decoding whale sounds and interpreting bird calls could all be possible in the coming years as artificial intelligence applications learn to translate different creatures’ communications, animal researchers said. Scientists have started using AI tools to analyze vast quantities of data on various species’ communications, ranging from sounds, postures, expressions and more, to…