In 2016, the UN doubled the cash it paid Afghan refugees to leave Pakistan, and 363,000 people went home in the middle of the fighting season. New research finds that policy-induced return reduced ins...

A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

Survivors offer insights and strategies that policymakers, regulators, financial institutions, insurance companies, and communities can use to help people fi…

Warnings about the catastrophic effects of vital ecosystems collapsing were not published under previous prime minister

Understanding the climatic pain points is necessary for policymakers hoping to minimize the war’s negative environmental consequences.

Data centers in the United States will consume more natural gas than most countries within a decade, according to a new outlook from BloombergNEF.

Riyadh has increased use of East-West pipeline since start of war on Iran to bypass closure of strait of Hormuz

In 2025, the Trump administration ended a long-running program to collecting air pollution data at U.S. embassies. A new study suggests that led to a 24-33% increase in local pollution levels.

Sweltering summer temperatures put last month on par with July 2023 for global warmth, scientists said. More records could be broken in the months ahead.

New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.

My boss, Tim Grieve, posted a photo on X last week of a shipment of office chairs that had just arrived at the Arlington, Virginia, headquarters of our new publication, The Washington Sun. “It's fun t...

A cyberattack that targeted water infrastructure nationwide was much larger than initially revealed.

The Trump administration and Westlands Water District are objecting to California's water plan for the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

“One more warning sign here of what we're facing in a warmer world.”...

Exclusive: Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire sites predicted to emit 4.5m tonnes a year when fully running

There’s no clearer sign of the data center boom than rampant gas projects that have been proposed or that are already under construction.

Addressing the consequences of climate change requires political attention and leadership. However, this study shows that apart from Green parties, political parties do not increase their attention to...

Extreme heat is imposing a large and rising burden on India’s informal workers, who face continuous exposure both at work and at home. Rising temperatures are reducing productivity, eroding incomes, w...

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Disruptive climate event is likely to be one of the strongest on record

SpaceX is planning a Texas natural gas plant to power a new chip facility, while gas turbines are already being used for campuses in Tennessee and Mississippi.

Switching to renewable energy can help smaller steel companies reduce electricity costs and cut millions of tons of carbon emissions.

The jellyfish invasion is the latest in a series of climate change-driven incidents that have affected a record number of French nuclear reactors over the summer.

Investments in a climate-friendly cooling system known as geothermal district cooling will help rapidly urbanizing societies resist dangerous heat indexes.

The Trump administration is planning to dramatically reshape the data the Census...

President Donald Trump cast aside bipartisan precedent when he rejected eligible disaster requests from four blue states.

The area around Bordeaux has many plants that work with sophisticated technologies and hazardous materials.

Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative takes advantage of rise in appetite for renewables as Middle East conflict drags on

Heavy smoke from several large wildfires blazing in Canada and Minnesota is expected to engulf large swaths of the Midwest and Northeast U.S. this week.

Despite Morocco’s hopes that its film industry would reap rewards, the blockbuster’s success will be tainted by controversy surrounding filming in occupied Western Sahara.

"The war against Iran is intensifying existing climate vulnerabilities and exposing the people of the region to an increasingly dangerous and nearly uninhabitable reality," write Sarah Yerkes and Alej...

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Millions in the US lack official flood risk data. This study uses an AI model to learn from existing maps and complete the US flood hazard map, revealing over 11 million more people exposed to flood r...

Vigil finds George Saunders returning to the theme of his first novel, grief—this time not for a person but for a planet.