The Microsoft co-founder said he believes governments should be involved in monitoring what AI does and that it won’t slow down the industry’s progress. Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates called on the U.S. to be a leader in regulating the growth of artificial …
El Nino is just one reason for a wildly uneven hurricane season. The Atlantic is historically quiet, while the Pacific is a parade of powerful storms. The 2026 hurricane season has been remarkable, from the potentially record-breaking calm in the Atlantic Ocean to the hyperactive eastern and central …
Scientists are chasing hail to understand what’s happening to these dangerous projectiles. This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk Collaboration. At a specialized cold lab in Boulder, Colorado, where indoor temperatures hover around …
The billionaire cofounder of Microsoft says without restrictions, AI could ‘cause a billion deaths’. Not requiring AI to have safeguards and be subject to outside monitoring is “completely irresponsible” and could lead to global harm to humanity, said tech mogul Bill Gates, in a series of media …
Tulare Lake, located in California’s San Joaquin Valley, was once one of the largest bodies of freshwater in the whole of the US. But, some 130 years …
Hawaii is on its third close call this season. If you could look down at the Pacific Ocean right now, you’d see three hurricanes spinning in a row, between 15 and 20 degrees north. Furthest east is Polo, an unusually strong hurricane that has been churning off the southern coast of Mexico for nearly …
Ronald Sakolsky couldn’t believe his eyes when he visited China’s Mu Us Desert for the first time in 26 years. “Seeing it with my own eyes, that was the biggest surprise,” he said. HONG KONG — Ronald Sakolsky never thought his money would go this far. What was once a vast, dry desert in northern …
Millet, sorghum, fonio, Bambara groundnut, cowpea, amaranth, pigeon pea, taro. For decades these crops were treated as the food of the past. Research …
At one point, Hurricane Polo was one of the most powerful hurricanes on record in the Eastern Pacific, but it has since been downgraded to a Category …
The US president said the country should not cooperate with China on the technology despite growing concerns. United States President Donald Trump has said the country will not be heeding growing calls to regulate the development of artificial intelligence. On Saturday, as he departed the White …
Their engineering feats are pretty dam incredible. It’s not easy being a river in the desert under the best of circumstances. The ecosystem exists in …
Despite everything, I sometimes find it hard not to sympathize with Donald Trump. Like Trump, I also chose to make the site of a future climate catastrophe my permanent home. Like Trump, I live in a home more than a century old and spend each day disgusted with the handiwork of the previous …
A massive, unseasonably early nor'easter is slamming the coastal northeast of the US. From New York to Boston, tens of millions of people are bracing for high winds, heavy rains and dangerous coastal waves.
Virginia Tech researchers sought a better understanding of the factors shaping hibernation. For over a year, scientists at Virginia Tech analyzed videos of black bears in a special bear-monitoring center at their campus in Blacksburg. They wanted to better understand bears’ habits as they prepare to …
Today’s Image of the Day from NASA Earth Observatory features Austria’s largest glacier after decades of dramatic ice loss. The Pasterze stretches through a high Alpine valley beneath Austria’s Grossglockner, the country’s tallest mountain. For generations, the long river of ice has been one of the …
The new fuel economy standards are the latest assault on Biden-era EV policies. President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he has approved new fuel economy standards for passenger vehicles, in another move meant to take aim at Biden-era policies supporting electric vehicles. Trump said in a Truth …