18+ hour, 58+ min ago   (672+ words) The datasets are helping make predictions faster and more accurate, potentially saving lives. GENEVA (AFP) — Researchers have copied massive quantities of publicly-available climate and environmental data from NASA onto a Swiss supercomputer to train artificial intelligence models — and for safekeeping…...

19+ hour, 10+ min ago   (630+ words) The president said the government-backed compendium of scientific and technological information, used to help judges ruling on complex cases, has been “totally discredited” and accused its authors of misleading the courts on climate change. WASHINGTON (CN) — President Donald Trump has…...

2+ week, 20+ hour ago   (581+ words) VIENNA (AFP) — Sweating out the latest heat wave on his wheelchair, Austrian Mex Muellner was increasingly convinced he was right in suing his country for dragging its feet on climate change. The forty-something suffers from multiple sclerosis and from Uhthoff’s…...

2+ week, 19+ hour ago   (674+ words) Regions across Portugal, Spain and France have stepped up heat alerts that last until the weekend. ILLE-SUR-TET, France (AFP) — Wildfires across southern Europe forced thousands of people to flee their homes and prompted authorities to ban spectators from Monday’s Tour…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (318+ words) Climate damage related to AI workloads could exceed $50 billion by 2030, researchers found. FRANKFURT, Germany (AFP) — Data centers, whose expansion is being fueled dramatically by the artificial intelligence boom, have a far bigger carbon footprint than previously estimated, a study said…...

3+ week, 15+ hour ago   (661+ words) BUDAPEST, Hungary (AFP) — The most severe heat wave ever recorded in Europe roasted central and eastern parts of the continent on Monday as Ukraine’s war-ravaged power grid struggled to cope with the shock of scorching heat. The heat wave first…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (595+ words) Infrastructure failures are mounting in Germany while unusually high temperatures continue to grip much of Europe. Temperatures in Germany are expected to hit 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit). In the western city of Dormagen, dozens of residents of a nursing home…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1333+ words) For 55 years, Enchanted Forest has offered Oregonians a chance to immerse themselves in a family-run fantasy land. TURNER, Ore. (CN) — Along Interstate 5 just south of Oregon’s capital city, a giant egg sits atop a castle. Known to both friends and…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (212+ words) Oxygen concentrations rose as much as 12% over a decade, a rare environmental success story as climate change warms water. (CN) — Massive investments in wastewater treatment plants, sewer systems and pollution control have reversed decades of oxygen depletion in China’s freshwater…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (484+ words) Auto manufacturers, dealers, fuel producers and other auto trade groups claim they have a direct financial stake in a lawsuit California and other states brought against the government over "disapproving" emissions standards waivers. SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A Ninth Circuit panel…...