Physics Nobel for laser pioneers includes first woman in 55 years
A trio of American, French and Canadian scientists won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday for breakthroughs in laser technology that have turned light beams into precision tools for everything...
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The Amazon used to be a hedge against climate change. Those days may be over.
In a pristine patch of tropical rainforest in the central Amazon north of Manaus, a group of Brazilian scientists unloads boxes of heavy instruments from a truck and disappears down a thin path into...
View ArticleSurvivors scavenge for food and water as Indonesia death toll continues to rise
Hungry survivors of an earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia said on Wednesday they were scavenging for food in farms as President Joko Widodo made a second visit to the area to ramp up aid efforts five...
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For illegal loggers in the Brazilian Amazon, 'there is no fear of being...
This is the second in a four-part series, The Amazon's Carbon Tipping Point. Day 1: The Amazon used to be a hedge against climate change. Those days may be over.Last October, a mob of angry miners...
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Why Indonesia's tsunamis are so deadly
The magnitude 7.5 earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck Indonesia days ago have resulted in at least 1,200 deaths.Authorities are still gauging the extent of the damage, but it’s clear the...
View ArticleBritain says Russian military intelligence behind host of global cyber attacks
In a British assessment based on work by its National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the Russian military intelligence (GRU) was cast as a pernicious cyber aggressor which used a network of hackers to...
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'Our wealth is the forest': Indigenous tribes are the last best hope for the...
Claudio da Silva, thickset, his bare chest traced with blue-black lines of body paint, wields a chainsaw not to cut down trees but to destroy a wooden timber hauler used by a band of illegal loggers....
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Brazil fights online misinformation during election season
During presidential debates, the Rio offices of Brazilian fact-checking organization Aos Fatos, which translates to "To The Facts," turn into something akin to a war room. Different task forces swiftly...
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A 'Third Way' to save the Amazon: make the standing forest itself more valuable
This is the last in a four-part series, The Amazon's Carbon Tipping Point. Day 1: The Amazon used to be a hedge against climate change. Those days may be over.Day 2: For illegal loggers in the...
View ArticleIn Puerto Rico, neighbors turn to each other in Maria's aftermath
When Christine Nieves and her family emerged from their home after Hurricane Maria struck, the forest outside their house looked like a giant chainsaw had come through, cutting the tops off everything...
View ArticleUN climate warning: Immediate change needed to preserve 'life as we know it'
Keeping the Earth's temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius means making rapid, unprecedented changes in the way people use energy to eat, travel and live or we risk even more extreme weather and loss...
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'Hope to hopelessness': Will government step up after second storm?
Dianne Powell is living a recurring nightmare.In October 2016, Hurricane Matthew filled her brick house with rainwater — up to her waist. The storm inundated her town, engulfing homes and highways and...
View ArticleBarrier islands are natural coast guards that absorb impacts from hurricanes...
When storms like Hurricane Michael make landfall, the first things they hit often are barrier islands– thin ribbons of sand that line the US Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It’s hard to imagine how these...
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Russian space rocket fails in mid-air, two-man US-Russian crew lands safely
US astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin landed safely on Thursday after making an emergency landing in Kazakhstan when a rocket on their Soyuz spacecraft failed in mid-air.Rescue...
View ArticleAfter Hurricane Maria, farmers in Puerto Rico struggle to rebuild
In Puerto Rico, volunteers and farmers are working together to rebuild after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico’s small agriculture sector.Even before Hurricane Maria roared across the island,...
View ArticleIndonesia's double disaster exposes earthquake lessons not learned
The young man standing atop a mound of grey mud and debris on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, waiting for an excavator he hoped would dig out the bodies of his parents, voiced the exasperation many...
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In Iceland, a shifting sculpture for a changing Arctic
This story comes to us through a partnership with the podcast and radio program Threshold, with funding support from the Pulitzer Center.On the island of Grímsey, off the northern coast of Iceland,...
View ArticleMobile money transfers have taken off in Somalia, but it's a risky business
A recent World Bank report showed that Somalia has one of the most active mobile money markets in the world, outpacing most other countries in Africa. It’s even superseded the use of cash in the...
View ArticleThis Google engineer was asked to create a censored version of Google News...
This week, Google finally confirmed that the company is exploring expanding its products into China and that Google has been working on a version of its search engine that would comply with Beijing’s...
View ArticleLive Discussion: What’s the EPA’s changing relationship with science?
During his 2016 campaign, President Donald Trump talked about dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency. Now we’re seeing how that promise is playing out with his chosen appointees, their...
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