New study calculates climate change's economic bite will hit about $38 trillion a year by 2049
A new study says climate change will reduce future global income by about 19% in the next 25 years compared to a fictional world thatโs not warming, with the poorest areas and those least responsible for heat-trapping gases taking the biggest monetary hit.
2023 was a record year for wind installations as world ramps up clean energy, report says
The world installed 117 gigawatts of new wind power capacity in 2023, a 50% increase from the year before, making it the best year for new wind projects on record, according to a new report by the industryโs trade association.
AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Alabama's congressional primary runoffs
Voters in a new Alabama congressional district at the center of an ongoing legal and political dispute will return to the polls Tuesday to select the nominees in a U.S. House contest that could help decide control of the narrowly divided chamber this November.
Chiefs' Rashee Rice was driving Lamborghini in Dallas chain-reaction crash, his attorney says
Kansas City Chiefsโ player Rashee Riceโs attorney says the wide receiver was the driver of one of two speeding sports cars who left after causing a chain-reaction crash on a Dallas highway over the weekend.
AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Wisconsin's presidential primaries and ballot questions
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will compete in the Wisconsin presidential primaries, a contest thatโs now less about winning delegates and more about carrying the pivotal state in November.
UN weather agency issues 'red alert' on climate change after record heat, ice-melt increases in 2023
The U.N. weather agency is sounding a โred alertโ about global warming, citing record-smashing increases last year in greenhouse gases, land and water temperatures and melting of glaciers and sea ice.
Argentina inflation slows for a 2nd month as President Milei keeps pushing austerity measures
Argentinaโs inflation slowed down for a second consecutive month in February, as right-wing President Javier Milei continues to push austerity and deregulation measures in an effort to revive the countryโs struggling economy.
Last surviving member of the first team to conquer Mount Everest says it is crowded and dirty now
The only surviving member of the mountaineering expedition that first conquered Mount Everest says the worldโs highest peak is too crowded and too dirty and the mountain is a god that needs to be respected.
Two Chinese bloggers in exile warn that police are interrogating their followers
Two prominent Chinese bloggers in exile said that police were investigating their millions of followers on international social media platforms, in an escalation of Beijingโs attempts to clamp down on critical speech even outside of the countryโs borders.
Google says its AI image-generator would sometimes 'overcompensate' for diversity
Google apologized Friday for its faulty rollout of a new artificial intelligence image-generator, acknowledging that in some cases the tool would โovercompensateโ in seeking a diverse range of people even when such a range didnโt make sense.
Students and parents are frustrated by delays in hearing about federal financial aid for college
For many students, the excitement of being accepted into their first-choice college is being tempered this year by a troublesome uncertainty over whether theyโll get the financial aid they need to attend.
Ocean system that moves heat gets closer to collapse, which could cause weather chaos, study says
An abrupt shutdown of Atlantic Ocean currents that could put large parts of Europe in a deep freeze is looking a bit more likely and closer than before as a new complex computer simulation finds a โcliff-likeโ tipping point looming in the future.