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A person walks with an umbrella on the beach in the afternoon heat on July 31, 2026 in Huntington Beach, California. Mario Tama/Getty Images An unusually intense heat dome is bringing dangerous temperatures to parts of the West on Sunday, where about 45 million people are under heat alerts. Most of those people are in portions of California, Nevada and Arizona, although heat

Visitors flocked to Maya Bay on Ko Phi Phi Leh island after it was in Leonardo DiCaprio film Up to 5,000 tourists a day arrived at Maya Bay, causing huge environmental damage, officials said. Photograph: Dietrich Herlan/Getty Images One of the world’s most popular beaches, made famous by the 2000 film The Beach, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is to be closed

Maddy Savage The Swedish government hopes that a return to pens and paper will improve literacy rates Sweden's government is championing a renewed focus on physical books, paper and pens in classrooms, designed to reverse falling literacy levels. But doubling down on analogue tools has drawn criticism from tech companies, educators and computer scientists, who argu

Air quality alerts are in place on Thursday across at least 18 states, from Minnesota to New Hampshire to Virginia, as dangerous smoke continues to waft into the U.S. from Canadian wildfires, including more than 100 blazes burning out of control. Smoke from at least 850 active wildfires in Canada is traveling more than a thousand miles to reach U.S. locations including New York City . At least

Aerial view of the Apple Data Center in Mesa near Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. REUTERS/Jim Todd Purchase Licensing Rights December 16 - Surging use of AI has led to a frenzy of construction activity to build new data centres, particularly in the U.S. Estimates put the total number of these facilities in operation worldwide this year at 6,111, with upwards of 2,000 more set to come online b

Dozens of Norfolk County firefighters work to extinguish massive fire in extreme heat Norfolk County fire crews on the scene of a hog barn fire near Simcoe, Ont., Tuesday morning. (Submitted by Norfolk County Fire Department) Flames billow from a hog barn near Simcoe, Ont., Tuesday as firefighters battle a blaze that left at least 20,000 hogs dead. Norfolk County firefighters responded t

Tim Bauer Richard Scolyer is globally recognised for his pioneering work on melanoma treatment Pioneering Australian doctor Richard Scolyer has died, three years after being diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumour. Scolyer, 59, made global headlines for his decision to undergo a risky world-first experimental treatment for his glioblastoma at the hands of his fri

Proposed legal settlement over 2022 oil spill would resolve allegations that South Bow violated clean water laws This photo taken with a drone shows the area where the ruptured Keystone pipeline dumped oil into a creek in Washington county, Kansas, on 9 December 2022.  Photograph: AP A proposed legal settlement with the US government would require the Keystone pipelin

The first quarter of 2026 saw the most blocked and delayed data center projects on record A generic photo of a data center (Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.) The booming AI data center industry has been fraught with controversy and growing resistance, with seven in 10 Americans reportedly against constructing them in their area, nearly half of whom were strong