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Academics in Mexico City are asking for donations to protect axolotls, an iconic fish-like type of salamander.

Nissan will invest $1.4 billion to update its factory in northeast England to make electric versions of its two best-selling cars.

The oil and gas sector, one of the major emitters of planet-warming gases, will need a rapid and substantial overhaul for the world to avoid even worse extremes fueled by human-caused climate change.

Peruvian scientists say Peru has lost more than half of its glacier surface in the last six decades due to climate change.

A jury should decide whether Tesla and Elon Musk oversold the electric car company’s Autopilot system and caused the fatal crash of a man who engaged it and took his hands off the steering wheel.

Computer chip and software maker Broadcom says it has cleared all regulatory hurdles and plans to complete its $69 billion acquisition of cloud technology company VMware on Wednesday.

A Senate committee has issued bipartisan subpoenas to the CEOs of Discord, Snap and X, demanding that the heads of the three companies testify at a December hearing on protecting children online.

A new United Nations report calculates that the globe is speeding to 2.5 to 2.9 degrees Celsius (4.5 to 5.2 degrees Fahrenheit) of global warming since pre-industrial times, set to blow well past the agreed upon international climate threshold.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the U.K. is setting up a new science initiative to help develop flood-tolerant rice, disease-resistant wheat and other crops that are more resilient to climate change.

The company that created ChatGPT is in turmoil after Microsoft hired its ousted CEO and many more employees threatened to follow him in a conflict that centered in part oin part on how to build artificial intelligence that’s smarter than humans.

The operator of Japan's damaged Fukushima nuclear plant says the release of a third batch of treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean has ended safely as planned.

Kyle Vogt has resigned as CEO of Cruise, General Motors' autonomous vehicle unit.

Apple has told multiple news outlets that it plans on adopting the RCS messaging standard in a software update next year.

The Texas education board has approved new textbooks but called on some publishers to change their depictions of fossil fuels in the U.S.'s biggest oil and gas state.

President Joe Biden and other global leaders have spent the past few days melding minds with Silicon Valley titans in San Francisco.

Fifteen years ago, Michael Phelps won a record eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics wearing a high-tech swimsuit with a catchy name, the Speedo LZR Racer.

EDM DJ Steve Aoki will release the second album in his “HiROQUEST” series of concept albums on Friday.

One of the thorniest problems of the 21st century is how to get people to eat less meat.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Tuesday was summoned to federal court for the second time in two weeks to testify in an antitrust trial threatening to topple a pillar of an internet empire that he helped build.

YouTube is rolling out new rules for AI content, including requiring creators to reveal whether they’ve used generative artificial intelligence to make realistic looking videos.

Flagship EU legislation that's meant to force European companies to screen out climate harms from their business operations faces being dramatically watered down.

European Union lawmakers have adopted a series of amendments to a draft law that is intended to keep sexually explicit photos and videos of minors from circulating online.

Two global reports say humanity’s fight to curb climate change is failing in dozens of ways with people getting sicker and dying as the world warms and the fossil fuels causing it get more subsidies.

Nepal’s government has decided to ban the popular social media app TikTok, saying it was disrupting “social harmony” in the country.