Intense heat waves and flooding are battering electricity and water systems, as America’s aging infrastructure sags under the pressure of climate change

Pope Francis beatifies short-lived, 'smiling Pope' John Paul I

How American farmers are helping solve critical global issues

Liz Truss: the financial whirlwind facing the new prime minister

Liz Truss: who is the UK’s new prime minister and why has she replaced Boris Johnson?

Long COVID: How researchers are zeroing in on the self-targeted immune attacks that may lurk behind it

Irish energy supplier Bord Gáis hikes rates for gas, electricity

IAEA inspectors visit Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine amid shelling, shutdown

‘Matter of national destiny’: China’s energy crisis sees the world’s top emitter investing in more coal

Unexpected Ukrainian resistance continues to thwart Russia’s initial plans for quick, decisive victories

Mikhail Gorbachev: The contradictory legacy of Soviet leader who attempted ‘revolution from above’

A winner is emerging from the war in Ukraine, but it’s not who you think

Last leader of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev dies aged 91

What’s going on with the Greenland ice sheet?

If you thought this summer’s heat waves were bad, a new study has some disturbing news about dangerous heat in the future

Imperiled Ukrainian nuclear power plant has the world on edge

A researcher asked COVID anti-vaxxers how they avoid Facebook moderation. Here’s what they found

Mystery crater potentially caused by relative of dinosaur-killing asteroid

A dog has caught monkeypox from one of its owners, highlighting risk of the virus infecting pets and wild animals

South Dakota congressman wants to keep American farmland from Chinese companies

Farmers can save water with wireless technologies, but there are challenges – like transmitting data through mud

Why Salman Rushdie’s ‘The Satanic Verses’ remains so controversial decades after its publication

What is this new Langya virus? Do we need to be worried?

President Biden signs CHIPS act into law, aiming to boost U.S. competitiveness with China