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THE University of Edinburgh has announced bumper funding of £1m to help forecast climate tipping points. The move comes despite several concerning emails being sent to all staff just a week ago describing the university’s perilous financial state. Staff were offered an extended period to hand in voluntary redundancy in the emails which described a…
Friedrich Merz, Union candidate for chancellor and CDU federal chairman, joins the “Quadrell” TV round in the Bundestag election campaign. Michael Kappeler | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Friedrich Merz, migration hardliner and longtime rival of Angela Merkel, is expected to become Germany’s next chancellor. His party the Christian Democratic Union is leading polls alongside…
Parts of the Southeast were experiencing potentially life-threatening flash floods Saturday as a severe weather system made its way across the country, also posing a risk of significant snow for the Upper Midwest and New England. The NWS warned early Saturday that severe flash flooding is likely in the Ohio and Tennessee valleys, particularly in parts of Kentucky and…
André Thierig, plant manager of the Tesla Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg, stands at the final inspection of the production of Tesla Model Y electric vehicles. Patrick Pleul | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Tesla reported earnings and revenue for the fourth quarter that trailed analysts’ estimates. The stock initially sank in extended trading before rebounding. Here’s how…
Inmate firefighters walk into uncontrolled fire to cut a fire line using only hand tools and chain saws at the Hughes Fire on January 22, 2025 in Castaic, California. David Mcnew | Getty Images LOS ANGELES — Firefighters gained more ground Thursday on a fast-moving brush fire that erupted north of Los Angeles on Wednesday and within hours…
A motorist clears snow off his vehicle parked along First Avenue as a winter storm sweeps over the intermountain West, plunging temperatures into the single digits and bringing along a light snow in its wake Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025, in Denver. David Zalubowski | AP Over 135 million people across 35 states will be under…
A motorist clears snow off his vehicle parked along First Avenue as a winter storm sweeps over the intermountain West, plunging temperatures into the single digits and bringing along a light snow in its wake Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025, in Denver. David Zalubowski | AP Preparations are underway as an arctic blast dives into the…
In this aerial view melting icebergs crowd the Ilulissat Icefjord on July 16, 2024 near Ilulissat, Greenland. Sean Gallup | Getty Images News | Getty Images Major ice loss from Greenland is exposing the island’s natural resources, inadvertently making some of the world’s largest untapped critical mineral reserves more accessible. Greenland, a vast but sparsely…
A soldier walks next to a Tesla Cybertruck, which was donated to the National Guard, after powerful winds fueling devastating wildfires in the Los Angeles area forced people to evacuate, in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood on the west side of Los Angeles, California, U.S. Jan. 13, 2025. Daniel Cole | Reuters Tesla started offering discounts…
This picture taken from the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip shows smoke plumes rising from explosions above destroyed buildings in the northern Gaza Strip on January 13, 2025 amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. Menahem Kahana | Afp | Getty Images Risk specialists identified armed conflict, extreme weather and…
