Hot dogs, beach days and iced tea on the porch are some of the rites of summer. But in an era of global warming, a new ritual has emerged: quelling the smoke from wildfires burning hundreds of miles or more away. The Midwest, Northeast and parts of Canada have been bombarded by thick smoke that
the biggest game in soccer is scheduled for Sunday, when Argentina and Spain will meet in the World Cup final, which will take place outside New York City. There’s just one problem. Smoke from wildfires now threatens the match, and FIFA, the sport’s governing body, does not appear to have any plans to protect the
we are not even One month into “super” Niño, the Pacific’s natural weather pattern characterized by warmer-than-average sea surface temperatures, and fisheries around the world are already turbulent. In Peru, government officials have effectively canceled the anchovy fishing season, one of the country’s most important exports and a leading source of fish oil and animal
Microsoft’s greenhouse gas pollution increased about 25 percent last year, the company says in its new sustainability report released Thursday. The report follows similar ones published by Google and Amazon last week. Together, they show a worrying trend of rising emissions from technology companies, driven by the global race to build energy-intensive data centers. In
Everyone is worried about affordability right now, including companies that make cars. Especially companies that make electric cars, which cost an average of $55,000. That makes America’s newest and cheapest electric truck a welcome, and somewhat strange, addition to the market. Officially unveiled last week, Michigan-based automaker Slate’s small modular offering costs just under $25,000
Sylvie Andrews and her partner not only lost the new home they had helped build when the Eaton Fire devastated Altadena, California, in January 2025. They lost an entire decade of sacrifices they had made to put down roots in their hometown and the community they had created. “We put a lot of blood, sweat
