US single-family homebuilding fell sharply in September and permits for future construction tumbled to a 3-1/2-year low as higher mortgage rates
October 20, 2026An outbreak of Newcastle disease in Brazil is unlikely to cause lasting damage to the country's poultry industry if authorities contain it quickly,
October 20, 2026France will reinforce police with troops and mount a huge security operation for more protests planned on Saturday, the government
October 20, 2026A 65-year-old woman was killed by a shark at a popular beach off the coast of South Africa's Eastern Cape province on Tuesday, local authorities said.
October 20, 2026Trump administration announces $8 billion farm relief plan as fuel, fertilizer costs bite
October 20, 2026When conservation affects local people, the question of who pays and who has a voice in decisions can make or break species recovery.
October 20, 2026Britain will fly Royal Air Force Typhoon fighter jets on defensive missions to help protect Saudi cities and critical national infrastructure from Houthi aerial attacks, the
October 20, 2026U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has held talks with India's foreign minister in Mumbai
October 20, 2026A battery system that stores excess energy when it’s plentiful will power an apartment building in Buffalo, New York, when the grid is strained and electricity is costly
October 20, 2026A 16-year-old carried out the Bend school shooting. Could his parents face charges?
October 20, 2026Oil majors are set to post a big jump in third-quarter profit as the US-Israeli war on Iran has boosted refining and
October 20, 2026More than 9,000 Indonesian police officers will be deployed in the capital Jakarta on Tuesday to handle protests marking President Prabowo Subianto's two years in office,
October 20, 2026Kansas auto shop offers free oil changes, inspections to single moms and widows
October 19, 2026Cuban authorities report that men captured in February after attempting to enter Cuba by force from the United States have confessed and cooperated with investigators
October 19, 2026Trump admin cuts to satellites will set back US weather forecasting by a decade, experts say
October 19, 2026In the years after the 2010 BP oil spill, the number of fish in the deeper parts of the Gulf of Mexico dramatically declined
October 19, 2026Incumbents can still reap electoral rewards when federal money reaches their districts, even if they opposed the bill that provided it.
October 19, 2026Conflict and drought are worsening food insecurity in Sudan’s Darfur and Kordofan regions, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
October 12, 2026A drone strike blamed on Sudan's paramilitaries has killed 41 displaced people near the Ethiopian border
October 10, 2026A prickly job: Idaho camel herd put to work clearing noxious weeds
October 19, 2026Invasive insect leads to Old Orchard Beach public park having to cut down more than 500 trees
October 19, 2026Google and McKinsey have agreed to buy 320,000 metric tons of carbon removal credits over 10 years in its first-ever silvopasture project, as part of
October 19, 2026The US Interior Department's sale of geothermal leases in Nevada this week will include thousands of acres overlapping major planned solar projects from NextEra
October 19, 2026A National Guard member has been shot and injured while trying to break up a fight in the nation's capital
October 19, 2026Twelve migrants drowned in two separate incidents off the Greek islands of Lesbos and Samos in the northeastern Aegean Sea on Monday, after their boats capsized as the coast guard
October 19, 2026Brazil's airline industry fears that the implementation of an impending consumption tax reform could raise fares and curb passenger growth, as the
October 19, 2026Ukraine and Russia should be focused on ending the war between them, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on his visit to
October 19, 2026‘The world will be amazed:’ Iran’s commanders prepare for further war
October 19, 2026Mali's armed forces and their Russian backers utilized some "apparent indiscriminate" drone strikes and other abuses as part of an ramped-up offensive against insurgents in
October 19, 2026World leaders, diplomats and nature experts gather in Armenia this week to assess lagging efforts to halt biodiversity loss, with countries off track on
October 19, 2026Authorities in Kansas say a woman drove a truck through a soccer field during a youth game, killing two people and hospitalizing 11 others
October 17, 2026DC golf course at center of fight over tree clearing to start renovations next month, Trump says
October 18, 2026Facing a lost job and home, mother finds support from restaurant coworkers
October 18, 2026Republicans confront anger from their own red-state voters ahead of midterms
October 18, 2026Olympic canoeist at center of Reflecting Pool scandal becomes a Trump foil
October 18, 2026Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney is betting a new pipeline can help revive the country’s oil industry, boost its production and
October 18, 2026China has proposed export controls on 12 technologies used to make solar equipment, citing national security concerns, as part of a broader revision that
October 18, 2026The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Trudy has strengthened to a Category 2 hurricane as it moves toward Mexico’s southwestern and west-central Pacific coast
October 17, 2026New wildfire in Southern California explodes in size, burning multiple homes
October 16, 2026Brewing nor’easter to stir up days of trouble for the Outer Banks and Mid-Atlantic
October 17, 2026A fire has gutted a beach resort in southeastern Bangladesh, killing 10 people and injuring four
October 17, 2026During Maine's Senate debate Thursday night, a protester shouted at GOP Sen. Susan Collins about the impact of data centers, claiming they are “destroying” the climate. Collins immediately accused her Democratic opponent Troy Jackson of planting the protester, but Jackson said he did not know who the person was. The debate took a brief pause to remove the individual and then resumed.
October 16, 2026The longfin bigeye fish was spotted in California for the first time last month, and the first sea turtles of any kind
October 17, 2026US police were investigating on Friday why a 16-year-old boy shot dead three children and a teacher at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, and how he got hold of the long gun used
October 16, 2026Attorneys for Rep_ Ilhan Omar are asking the Justice Department to immediately return property that federal agents seized from her home this week, arguing that the search stemming from an investigation into her citizenship status was “neither justified nor lawful.”
October 17, 2026Thousands of US air traffic controllers will get a 2.8% pay raise retroactive to January 1 under a deal announced by the
October 16, 2026Anthropic has signed a lease with EverWind for data center capacity at Point Tupper, Nova Scotia, marking the Claude maker’s first data center agreement in Canada, a company
October 16, 2026Leaf-peeping season is underway, but some areas of the U.S. are seeing lots more color than others
October 16, 2026A draft environmental assessment finds that President Donald Trump's plan to paint a 19th-century landmark office building next to the White House could harm its historic character
October 16, 2026Tech giant Meta has denied accusations it has acted with political bias during Brazil’s presidential campaign
October 16, 2026A meeting of the members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was suspended without an agreement on a timeline to publish its next review of
October 16, 2026California said on Friday that nearly 12,000 residents bought electric vehicles since August using rebates under a new $270 million program funded by
October 16, 2026Hurricane Trudy has strengthened slightly as it moves towards southwestern and west-central areas of Mexico’s Pacific coast, and could keep growing through Saturday
October 16, 2026The United States is making an unprecedented attempt to revive three shuttered nuclear plants to meet growing demand, especially from data centers
October 16, 2026Brazil’s government announces that annual deforestation in the Amazon has fallen to its lowest level since 1988
October 16, 2026Hurricane Trudy weakened on Friday but could regain strength in the coming hours, meteorologists warned, as the storm approached
October 16, 2026A record-breaking $3.3 billion loan from the U.S.
October 16, 2026Millions of Ukrainians face another winter of
October 16, 2026The cost of shipping oil on the largest tankers fell this week from record highs as demand eased following a wave of attacks on vessels in the Middle East
October 16, 2026Promises by nations to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to finance nature and increase protections for oceans around the globe are falling short ahead of a key U.N. biodiversity conference
October 16, 2026An early clue came from storks found in Europe with African arrows in their bodies. Today, an atlas reveals hundreds of bird migration routes that are both complicated and remarkable.
October 16, 2026Sales reveal how many cars people actually bought, but not how many they actually wanted. Prices, on the other hand, show how demand is changing.
October 16, 2026Gains in tackling malnutrition in Gaza remain fragile and could be undermined by disruptions to supplies entering the Palestinian enclave, the UN
October 16, 2026AlertWildfire founder urges California homeowners to prepare as fall fire season intensifies
October 16, 2026Exactly how much of an environmental menace is AI? Here’s what we know
October 16, 2026Trump administration sued over accelerated immigration process for migrant kids
October 16, 2026There are now more Catholics in Africa than in Europe, the Vatican said on Friday, releasing the latest Catholic Church statistics compiled by its news agency Fides.
October 16, 2026A 78-year-old retired teacher whose California home was destroyed by a catastrophic wildfire faces losing her disaster case manager amid a funding standoff between the state and the Federal Emergency Management Agency
October 16, 2026Canadian home sales extended their decline in September, after a drop in August, as higher mortgage rates and expectations of a Bank of Canada rate hike
October 16, 2026Body found in barrel in Lake Mead identified as Arkansas man after DNA testing, Las Vegas authorities say
October 15, 2026Las Vegas officials have identified a homicide victim whose remains were found in a rusted barrel on a Lake Mead shore after the lake’s level was depleted amid drought
October 15, 2026The Trump administration has sued California election officials
October 15, 2026Hurricane Trudy moved parallel to Mexico's western coast on Thursday, threatening further rain and strong winds in a region already battered in recent weeks by storms
October 15, 2026Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto has agreed to accept assistance from neighbouring countries to tackle its worst forest fires in more than a decade, the country's
October 16, 2026Yemen's Houthis fired missiles at the presidential palace complex in the southern city of Aden on Thursday,
October 15, 2026Hurricane Trudy has strengthened as it approaches the Pacific coast of Mexico
October 15, 2026Trump admin files ‘long shot’ lawsuit after California wouldn’t open a thumb drive of alleged non-citizens
October 16, 2026Several brush fires are burning in Southern California, stoked by hot, windy weather that caused utility companies to shut off electricity for tens of thousands of people around the state
October 15, 2026US conglomerate 3M plans to argue a landmark case brought by Australia over contamination from the company's use of PFAS "forever chemicals" in its
October 16, 2026FBI employees fired for their roles in the investigation of President Donald Trump’s retention of classified documents at his Florida estate are suing to get their jobs back, calling their terminations unlawful acts of “political retribution.”
October 15, 2026Hyundai Motor America is recalling 94,622 vehicles in the US over a fire risk while parked or driving due to the possibility that some front power seat motors could overheat, the US
October 15, 2026Manhattan’s Upper West Side has been reveling in the company of its latest celebrities: A family of barn owls nested in a water tower atop a building near Central Park
October 15, 2026A potential Trump administration plan to ease sanctions on vessels that have transported sanctioned oil and fuel would likely have limited impact on
October 16, 2026The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the U.S. winter will likely be wetter and warmer, but not necessarily snowier, due to El Niño
October 15, 2026The skyrocketing price of diesel is plain for Americans to see anytime they fuel up their cars, SUVs and pickup trucks, though only a fraction of US drivers own a
October 16, 2026Officials say bird flu caused the death of a bald eagle named Jackie who had become an internet sensation and a symbol of the species’ recovery in California
October 15, 2026Factory championing women workers named world’s best new building
October 16, 2026The International Energy Agency agreed on Thursday to release over 20 million barrels of diesel to the
October 15, 2026Progress toward a US-Mexico tariff deal has stalled after opposition from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar
October 15, 2026In the jungles of Indonesian Borneo, a rehabilitation centre is taking in more orangutans as the country's worst
October 15, 2026A super El Niño winter is coming and the first official forecast is in
October 15, 2026The US government has delayed by 90 days implementation of new customs requirements for small international mail shipments, a move that should forestall higher
October 15, 2026A rotten smell hanging over a town in Mexico's southern Chiapas state drove residents into the streets on Thursday
October 15, 2026Global demand for electric vehicles fell 2% in September, ending six consecutive months of growth, as record sales in Europe were not enough to offset sharp declines
October 15, 2026Brent crude was little changed on Thursday as investors weighed possible US steps to ease restrictions on the world’s "shadow fleet" of tankers, while
October 15, 2026Brazilian authorities are investigating whether a recent surge in Amazon wildfires was orchestrated
October 15, 2026If the US imposed a ban on its diesel exports, as some lawmakers are calling for, it would roil the global market.
October 15, 2026The head of the International Monetary Fund’s Africa department says African economies have managed to weather the energy crisis brought on by the Iran war
October 15, 2026Months of sustained wildfires in Indonesia have caused a spike in respiratory illnesses and blanketed several Southeast Asian countries in hazardous haze, with Singapore
October 15, 2026When the oil supertanker Esteem Explorer sails from the United States to Japan in late November, loaded with about 2
October 15, 2026A heavy downpour has shut down Istanbul, flooded homes and roads and killed at least three people
October 15, 2026Scientists knew the Doomsday Glacier was melting. They didn’t realize how ‘aggressively’
October 15, 2026Indonesian authorities said on Thursday they would consider offers of foreign assistance to tackle the country's biggest forest fires in over a decade after President
October 15, 2026Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto appointed Kristomei Sianturi as his new disaster mitigation agency chief on Thursday, his office said.
October 15, 2026Governments and state entities
October 15, 2026In 1899, the Mt Lyell mine in Tasmania produced some 9,500 metric tons of copper.
October 15, 2026(This story has been refiled to correct the type of duck subject to European anti-dumping probe in paragraph 6.)
October 15, 2026Both climate change and a strong El Niño combined to cause Hurricane Polo to explosively intensify from a tropical storm to a Category 5 monster in just 24 hours
October 15, 2026Clad in his khaki wildlife officer’s uniform, Dewagiri Mudiyanselage Thilakaratne Bandara rides his motorbike the
October 15, 2026Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro was seen slightly ahead of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva heading into the October 25 presidential runoff, a Quaest poll showed on
October 15, 2026A federal judge has extended an order blocking the Trump administration from banning reporters from CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House
October 14, 2026Pollution readings in Singapore reached their highest level this year on Wednesday while East Timor shut its schools for three days in response to
October 14, 2026Chinese state buyers purchased 8-10 Panamax cargoes of US soybeans this week, the first such deals since the September summit between Presidents Donald
October 14, 2026Barbados is joining a group of countries calling for the establishment of an international panel to address inequality, at a time when heightened geopolitical
October 14, 2026Haidar Abu Middain, 60, lifts a desiccated bough of a fallen olive tree and tosses it aside in the barren dirt of what was once one
October 14, 2026Taiwan is planning to buy liquefied natural gas from a U.S. project once extraction starts and could invest up to $4.4 billion in it
October 14, 2026Vietnamese electric taxi operator Green and Smart Mobility (GSM), a partner of VinFast said on Wednesday it launched its all-electric ride-hailing and taxi service in Los
October 14, 2026China's exports of rare earths in September rose 6.7% from the prior year, customs data showed on Wednesday, as overseas buying improved after a summer lull.
October 14, 2026Iowa is grappling with water quality and cancer rates, bringing these issues to the forefront of state politics
October 14, 2026Eight endangered orangutans rescued from areas of Indonesia’s Borneo ravaged by wildfires have been released into a protected forest
October 13, 2026Iran is deploying new tactics to target ships sailing through the Strait of Hormuz as it seeks to keep oil
October 14, 2026Mohammed Saber and his family rely on a solar kit for electricity at the bamboo-and-tarpaulin shack they call home at a camp for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
October 14, 2026New York City’s iconic horse-drawn carriages expected to take their last trot
October 14, 2026The head of MI5 says Iran is trying to hit military sites in the U.K. and the suspected plot to attack a U.S.-run military air base in September is not unique
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