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Month: November 2024

Will people leave Florida after devastating hurricanes? History suggests not

orlando, florida —  The news rippled through Treasure Island, Florida, almost like a third storm: The mayor planned to move off the barrier island a month after Hurricane Helene flooded tens of thousands of homes along the Gulf Coast and…

Ukrainian front-line school system goes underground to protect against bombs, radiation

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine —  To be a parent in the Ukrainian front-line city of Zaporizhzhia means weighing your child’s life against the Russian weapons within striking distance. Most rain death in an instant: the drones, the ballistic missiles, the glide bombs,…

Nevada lithium mine will crush rare plant habitat US said is critical to its survival, lawsuit says

RENO, Nevada —  Conservationists and a Native American tribe are suing the U.S. to try to block a Nevada lithium mine they say will drive an endangered desert wildflower to extinction, disrupt groundwater flows and threaten cultural resources. The Center…

Russia, Ukraine accuse each other of obstructing prisoner swaps

MOSCOW —  Kyiv called on Moscow on Sunday to provide a list of Ukrainian prisoners of war ready for a swap after Russia accused Ukraine of sabotaging the exchange process. In requesting the list of Ukrainians from his Russian counterpart,…

Time to ‘fall back’ an hour as daylight saving time ends

The good news: You will get a glorious extra hour of sleep. The bad: It’ll be dark by late afternoon for the next few months in the United States. Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. local time Sunday, which…

Agreement signed at UN summit gives Indigenous groups voice

CALI, Colombia —  After two weeks of negotiations, delegates on Saturday agreed at the United Nations conference on biodiversity to establish a subsidiary body that will include Indigenous peoples in future decisions on nature conservation, a development that builds on…

California attempts to regulate election deepfakes

The state of California has passed several laws attempting to regulate artificial intelligence, including AI used to create realistic looking but manipulated audio or video — known as a deepfake. In this U.S. election season, the aim is to counter…

Robot retrieves first melted fuel from Fukushima nuclear reactor

TOKYO —  A remote-controlled robot has safely returned with a tiny piece of melted fuel it collected from inside one of three damaged reactors at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant for the first time since the 2011 meltdown….

War makes it harder to hold journalists’ killers accountable, experts say

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK —  Achieving justice in the targeted killings of journalists is a difficult task made even more complicated in cases that take place in wartime, experts say. On a global scale, 85% of journalist killings around the world since…

Gaza: Strike hits health centre as polio vaccine campaign resumes in ravaged north

Hours after the campaign rolled out, reports indicated that a healthcare centre in the north had been hit, injuring six people, including four children, in a location where a humanitarian pause had been in place, according to the World Health…