Athens just put in a pretty strong bid for the 2026 Winter Olympics. A huge dip in the jet stream has allowed polar air…
The next victim of this summer of weather hell is french fries. Well, technically potatoes. Harvests in Germany and…
The second day of a three-day strike by Amazon warehouse workers near Madrid coinciding with the e-commerce giant’s…
The European Commission is proposing a ban on around 10 single-use plastic items that it says account for approximately…
When Mark Zuckerberg testified in front of members of the European Parliament on Tuesday, he insisted that Facebook was…
“Look, this is bad,” Mark Zuckerberg told reporters during an impromptu conference call on Wednesday. The Facebook CEO…
After all of those years of humans holding dolphins in shackles, mocking them with cutesy depictions in the media, and…
The fact that snow is white seems like a pretty basic truth. But over the weekend in parts of eastern Europe, the snow…
The Afsluitdijk is a 20-mile dam that has been protecting the low-lying Netherlands from the force of the ocean for…
Beetles that depend on dead or decaying wood, often with weighty frames and photogenic jaws—called saproxylic…
Measles is pulling off a disconcerting resurgence across the continent of Europe at the same time the vaccination rate…
LEIDEN, NETHERLANDS—At the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the speed skating rink is a familiar orange blur. The…
With a new, “portable” atomic clock, scientists are measuring not what time it is but changes to time itself.
There are two things everybody knows about Roman Empire: that it was an invincible superpower, and that when it fell,…
Apple, whose CEO Tim Cook likes to talk a big game about how the tech industry should be more socially responsible…
We’re still a few months from finally closing the books on a year wracked by natural disasters, but it seems safe to…
The European Union’s competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager issued a recovery order against Amazon on Wednesday…
The World Wildlife Fund said on Friday it will be pursuing charges against a local official who, upon receiving a…
As a species, we have largely categorized animals as Too Cute To Eat, Too Weird To Eat, or Meat. I do not understand…
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