This story is adapted from “ Children Under Fire: An American Crisis ,” which will be published March 30 by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins. The book examines the devastating…
Located between big polluters China and India, Nepal is seeing the worst pollution levels since 2016. Nepal has ordered schools to close for four days after air pollution climbed to…
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India is unlikely to bind itself to a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions goal by 2050, government sources told Reuters, despite diplomatic pressure from the United States…
Two-thirds of respondents say economic benefits from net-zero emissions by 2050 would outweigh the cost of achieving it. A growing number of climate economists say the world should take “immediate…
Scientists are inching one step closer toward redefining the length of a second. To do that, they're using atomic clocks. Atomic clocks, which look like a jumble of lasers and…
The highly anticipated World Health Organization report on the origins of the coronavirus that sparked a global pandemic isdue out Tuesday. In an exclusive interview with NPR,Peter Daszak, part of…
Biologists thought Disa forficaria orchids went extinct twice. Once in 2018, when a single specimen was found after 52 years without a sighting, and again in 2019 when that one…
Hundreds of people, both local and foreigners, were rescued from the town of Palma, located next to gas projects worth $60 billion Dozens of people were killed in an attack…
While men and women in Hasidic communities typically marry young, marriages are generally not done before the age of 18 A Brooklyn rabbi is under investigation for allegedly arranging marriages…
Genetic analysis shows that while the Scythians seemingly came from several places to the central Asian steppe, the Basques were not big on moving and mixing Genetic analysis is all…