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The News The warming climate could drive India to use up its groundwater much more rapidly in the coming decades, according to projections published Friday in the journal Science Advances. India already pumps up more underground water than any other country, largely to irrigate staple crops like wheat, rice and maize. But hotter temperatures are…
When the United Arab Emirates hosts this year’s United Nations climate summit, it will elevate the Gulf nation’s global profile. But the conference is also inviting scrutiny of the Emirates’ record on human rights as well as its position as a leading oil producer. A leaked recording of a February meeting between representatives from the…
As Paris was banning e-scooters, European cities of comparable size, like Berlin, threw their weight behind the devices. Berlin has five scooter operators and 40,000 registered e-scooters zooming across the city. “There’s always more,” the Berliner Zeitung, a local news outlet, recently commented. The vote in Paris initially resonated in other French cities at a…
Fast-moving thunderstorms swept across the Las Vegas valley on Friday, causing flash flooding along parts of the Las Vegas Strip as the region braced for more rain into Saturday. The National Weather Service reported that 1.14 inches of rain fell on Friday in Boulder City, Nev., about 26 miles southeast of Las Vegas. Just over…
The remnants of Hurricane Idalia were dissipating on Saturday and pulling away from Bermuda, days after it made landfall along Florida’s Gulf Coast and swept across the Southeast. On Friday, the storm, which was once a powerful Category 4 hurricane, had weakened to a post-tropical cyclone. At 5 p.m. Eastern on Saturday, the storm was…
When a mountain-size slab of space rock rammed into the Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years ago, the fallout was apocalyptic. Tsunamis washed away coastlines, raging fires engulfed forests and dust and debris blotted out the sun for months. Roughly three-fourths of the planet’s species, most notably non-avian dinosaurs, were wiped out. But one group appears…
Katia has weakened into a Tropical Depression and “barely qualifies as a tropical cyclone at this time,” the National Hurricane Center said on Monday morning. In an advisory on Monday morning, the National Hurricane Center estimated that the storm had sustained winds of 35 miles per hour, with higher gusts. As of Monday morning there…
Do you ever wonder how spammers can send you emails that look like they are coming from your own account or someone you know? You might think that your email is hacked or that your friend’s account is compromised. The truth is, these types of deceptive emails aren’t really coming from those addresses. They’re just…
When Greenpeace activists draped Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s baronial country house in black fabric last month to protest his energy policies, public reaction focused on the troubling lapse in security. But on another level, the stunt showed that Mr. Sunak’s brand of hard-edge politics was hitting home in Britain. Greenpeace said it was outraged by…
The world is racing ahead with enormous investments in renewable energy, for the first time this year plowing more money into solar power than oil. But the world’s poorest countries, mostly in Africa, are effectively priced out of the action by a global lending system that considers them too risky for investment. Only 2 percent…
