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Climate change makes India's monsoons erratic. Can farmers still find a way to prosper?
Climate change makes India's monsoons erratic. Can farmers still find a way to prosper?
Antarctica is one of the fastest-warming regions in the world
Global efforts to fight climate change stumbled but survived the last time Donald Trump was elected president and withdrew the United States from an international climate agreement. With Trump, who has dismissed climate change, in charge of the world's leading economy, those experts fear other countries — especially top polluting nation China — could use it as an excuse to ease off their own efforts to curb carbon emissions. “There's no hope of reaching a safe climate without substantive action from the United States, from China, from Europe,” said Stanford University climate scientist Rob Jackson, who chairs the Global Carbon Project, a group of scientists that tracks countries' carbon dioxide emissions, which have been rising globally.
On the eve of Cop29 in Baku, António Guterres says dangers are underestimated as irreversible tipping points near
Record-breaking heat, extreme weather events, air pollution and the spread of infectious disease: climate change poses an already vast yet rising threat to the health of humans around the world, experts warn.- Infectious diseases - The changing climate means that mosquitoes, birds and mammals will roam beyond their previous habitats, raising the threat that they could spread infectious diseases with them.
State-level and other subnational officials from the US and China are expected to meet in Azerbaijan next week at a key multinational forum to address climate change amid concerns that Donald Trump's re-election could jeopardise global inroads on the issue. Senior officials from several American states including California, Maryland and Washington will join their mainland counterparts at the US-China Subnational Climate Leaders Dialogue on the sidelines of the annual United Nations climate summi
Singer went full Madonna in her takedown of US president
Democrats now carrying out public postmortem on failure of Harris campaign after Trump swept to victory
In a town that sits between two nations, Arnoldo Montiel knows exactly where he stands on immigration. Driving towards the border wall that straddles the Arizona town, he says he believes the issue is why Kamala Harris lost the election. Like her husband, she supports Trump's approach to immigration, which the president-elect says will involve mass deportations.
North Korean troops deployed to Russia’s Kursk region have fought Kyiv’s forces on the battlefield, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday, adding that the clashes resulted in fatalities.
A Ukrainian official gave Business Insider further details about the first clashes between Ukrainian and North Korean troops in Russia's Kursk region.
The daughter of a millionaire refused to open the safe for two robbers impersonating police officers, a court has heard.
Is royal romance blossoming once again at venerable Scottish university St Andrews?
Ancient DNA recovered from Pompeii shows that people found holding one another beneath the volcanic ash weren’t related in the ways we think.
CNN pundit Van Jones says Democrats’ media strategy is a major reason Vice President Harris lost this week’s presidential election to former President Trump. “We got beat because the conservatives and Republicans built a different media system,” Jones said on the channel Thursday. “It had to do with online, had to do with podcasts, with…
The 2024 election may have one last card to play: the House of Representatives, where a majority hasn’t been called for either party. The overwhelming likelihood is that the House will follow the national electorate and give Republicans a majority again, confirming unified government under President-elect Donald Trump. The Associated Press, whose calls Barron’s relies on, has projected that of the 435 House seats, Republicans have won 211 versus 199 for Democrats.
It is an embarrassing critique for Hamas, which has used religious arguments to justify its actions.
President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday named his under-the-radar campaign manager, Susie Wiles, to be his White House chief of staff. The move is the first major staffing decision Trump has made since winning Tuesday’s election. “Susie is tough, smart, innovative and is universally admired and respected,” Trump wrote in a statement. “I have no doubt that she will make our country proud.”
Protesters and political prisoners are being drugged, tortured and beaten in state-run institutions, say rights groups
"I convinced her it was going to be okay," the Prince of Wales said about helping his daughter accept his new look
Singapore Airlines is known for luxury. Its investment in a new business class has one game-changing feature that flyers love.