Europe’s wildfire crisis deepens
Two people died when fire swept a Greek island near Athens and a Spanish soldier was killed fighting...
How Russian hackers reached a Polish power plant through a wind farm
Eight months after Russian-linked hackers staged the most destructive cyberattack yet recorded against Poland’s energy grid, investigators have...
The Kuril gambit: Putin tests Tokyo’s nerve as Japan rearms
Vladimir Putin has never, in more than a quarter-century in power, set foot on the four islands that...
From pirates to privateers: Inside the White House’s gamble on outsourced cyberwarfare
US President Donald Trump has handed American companies a power the federal government has guarded jealously since the...
The hidden cost of every prompt: How AI’s cooling crisis is draining aquifers from Virginia to Uttar Pradesh
The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence is putting growing pressure on water supplies in areas where data centres...
Global food system faces triple threat from El Niño and two wars
For most of this year, analysts described the strongest El Niño event in over a century as a...
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Global food system faces triple threat from El Niño and two wars
For most of this year, analysts described the strongest El Niño event in over a century as a...
Ebola deaths surpass 2,000 in DR Congo
Democratic Republic of Congo said on Tuesday that confirmed Ebola deaths had reached 2,011, the latest grim milestone...
Drought pushes 6.5 million Somalis into acute hunger as aid funds dwindle
Around 6.5 million people in Somalia are facing acute hunger as a prolonged drought tightens its grip, the...
Climate change could push over a billion people into food crisis by 2100
More than 295 million people faced acute hunger in 2025, driven by conflict, displacement, economic shocks and climate...
Thousands of Cambodians remain displaced as Thailand hardens frontier
Six weeks after a ceasefire halted the worst fighting in more than a decade along the Thai–Cambodian border,...