SCIENCE

Between brainstorming ways to fix the global financial system and appearing onstage at a Paris pop concert, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley stopped to record a message about the storm looming near her Caribbean nation.

This week, the FDA sent the warning letters, while the CDC released important reports on e-cigarette sales and related reports to poison centers.

Equity markets sank Friday and oil extended a sharp selloff after a string of interest rate hikes by central banks revived worries about the global economy.

A global summit seeking to overhaul the international financial system wraps up Friday after taking small steps towards easing the debt burden of developing nations weighed down by climate and economic crises.

A county in the northwestern state of Oregon on Thursday filed a lawsuit against major fossil fuel corporations seeking more than $51 billion over the 2021 "Heat Dome," one of the United States' deadliest ever weather disasters.

The Titan submersible was lost at sea and its passengers are dead, the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed. Debris was located Thursday near the wreckage site of the Titanic, confirming the demise of the OceanGate sub and its five-man crew.

A Ford joint venture to build three new electric vehicle battery plants is set to receive up to $9.2 billion in US federal loans under a program backed by President Joe Biden, officials announced Thursday.

Campaigners on Thursday hailed a move by the Church of England to exclude all oil and gas majors from its investment portfolio because of climate concerns.

If world leaders and the heads of multilateral development banks gathered at a Paris summit recognise that climate goals depend on revamping the architecture of global finance, it would be a "historic" development, a top development economist said Thursday.

Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has filed a criminal complaint in France for "crimes against humanity" against President Macky Sall, his lawyer said, as well as requesting a probe by the International Criminal Court (ICC).

International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank officials are joining dozens of economic leaders for a two-day summit in Paris, aiming to tackle the interlinked challenges of poverty alleviation and climate change.

Dozens of global leaders will gather in Paris Thursday for a summit to tease out a new consensus on international economic reforms to help debt-burdened developing countries face a growing onslaught of challenges, particularly climate change.

Heatwaves across Asia and beyond have already broken records this year, while the arrival of the El Nino climate phenomenon will mean even more extreme temperatures.

The United States has granted its first ever approvals to two companies to sell chicken grown directly from animal cells, paving the way for lab-grown meat to be eaten by consumers.

The United States has granted its first ever approvals to two companies to sell chicken grown directly from animal cells, paving the way for lab-grown meat to be offered to consumers.

When Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley laid out a plan to fix the international financial architecture at climate talks last year, she galvanised world leaders on reforms that had languished for years.

NASA said it aims to send the "first woman and next man" to the moon by 2024.

The European Space Agency and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's BepiColombo spacecraft conducted the third of its six flybys of Mercury this week.

These are reportedly the first local malaria cases in the state of Florida since 2003.

The public fountains in Volvic, the home of one of the world's most famous mineral waters, have been turned off.

NASA shared new "cosmic harmonies" from the James Webb, Spitzer, Chandra and Hubble space telescopes.

Iceland's government said Tuesday it was suspending this year's whale hunt until the end of August due to animal welfare concerns, likely bringing the controversial practice to a historic end.

With eight countries sharing the Amazon, the Inter-American Development Bank wants to play a central role as an "umbrella" organisation coordinating climate-related projects in the vulnerable rainforest.

When the woman woke up from a nap, her Apple Watch notified that her heart rate was too high, at 178 beats per minute "for too long."

French authorities are expected shortly to issue a decree shutting down a climate activist group after demonstrators clashed with police over a controversial irrigation project that left one man in a coma.

Stars including Jane Fonda and the Oscar-winning directors of "Everything Everywhere All At Once" will urge the entertainment industry to tackle climate change head-on at a summit in Los Angeles this week.

Opioid addict Martin has seen the deadly fentanyl replace heroin as the most prevalent drug in New York.

Medications intended for type 2 diabetes and clinical obesity such as Ozempic are trending on social media as drugs for quick weight loss.

One sample turned out to be contaminated with salmonella, and others with Listeria.