Month: November 2024

Eko Siswono Toyudho/Getty ImagesNew funding could help vulnerable countries prepare for the worst impacts of climate changeRicher countries have pledged a record $300bn (£238bn) to help the developing world fight…

The United States' fruit and vegetable production, as well as the number of farms in the country, has been declining for decades while it increasingly relies on other countries to…

Shams Ur Rehman AlaviAbida Sultaan was the eldest daughter of the last Nawab of Bhopal, Hamidullah KhanAbida Sultaan was nothing like your typical princess.She wore her hair short, shot tigers…

Northvolt CEO Peter Mikael Carlsson is standing on the construction site for the new Northvolt Gigafactory electric car battery factory in front of excavators and wind turbines on March 25,…

Getty ImagesNila Ibrahimi beat 165 other nominees to be named this year's International Children's Peace Prize winnerWhen Nila Ibrahimi set out to build a website telling the stories of Afghan…

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attends a session on November 13, 2024 at the Bundestag.John Macdougall | Afp | Getty ImagesWhen the German government collapsed earlier this month, clashes within the…

There was a standing ovation as a new finance deal was approved at the COP29 summit in Baku, Azerbaijan.The new deal offers $300bn (about £240bn) a year to developing nations…

Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesLONDON — Apple and Google could face a competition investigation into their dominance of mobile web browsers and apps in the U.K.The U.K.'s Competition and…

Representatives for the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) walked out of COP29 climate talks in Baku, after dismissing an offer of $250bn from richer countries to tackle the effects…

An Amazon Web Services data center in Ashburn, Virginia, US, on Sunday, July 28, 2024.Nathan Howard | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe power needs of artificial intelligence and cloud computing are…