The shortcut to less warming? It runs through a farm field
Barillo_Images/Shutterstock The biggest challenge to limiting climate change to 2C, the upper target of the 2015 Paris agreement, is this: methane emissions are rising very fast, says Euan Nisbet, a professor of earth...
What’s behind Erdoğan’s calculated shift on Kurds and its potential consequences
On March 1, the start of the holy month of Ramadan observed by most of Turkeys Sunni population the imprisoned leader of the banned Kurdistan Workers Party, Abdullah calan, made a historic call for the party to disarm...
A hillside burns near Tryon, N.C., on March 3, 2025. Fire season here typically starts in late March or April. Peter Zay/Anadolu via Getty Images Scores of wildfires broke out across North Carolina, South Carolina and...
‘A miracle of Western tenacity’: how 10 million refugees found homes after World War II
A displaced Russian family preparing to return home, August 1945. Signal Corps Archive, United States, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons A disaster. That was the fitting word for the Europe that emerged immediately...

Over the weekend the Australian government announced A$644 million to build an extra 50 Medicare urgent care clinics around Australia. This is on top of nearly $600 million previously committed to establish 87 clinics....
Hot frogs and sizzling salamanders: climate change is pushing amphibians to their limits
Wirestock Creators, Shutterstock Frogs and other amphibians rely on the surrounding environment to regulate their body temperature. On hot days they might seek shade, water or cool spaces underground. But what if...