Fossils show huge salamanderlike predator with sharp fangs existed before the dinosaurs

WASHINGTON — Scientists have revealed fossils of a giant salamanderlike beast with sharp fangs that ruled waters before the first dinosaurs arrived

Torrid heat bakes millions in large swaths of US, setting records and fanning wildfires

Las Vegas — Roughly 130 million people were under threat over the weekend and into next week from a long-running heat wave that broke or tied records with dangerously high temperatures and is expected to shatter more from East Coast to West Coast, fo[..]

Crocodiles cannot outnumber people in Australian territory where girl was killed, leader says

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Crocodile numbers in Australia's Northern Territory must be either maintained or reduced and cannot be allowed to outstrip the human population, the territory's leader said after a 12-year-old girl was killed while swimming

Anti-doping agency sharpens its tools for Paris Olympics

Lausanne, Switzerland — In the battle against drug use at the Paris Olympics, the International Testing Agency plans to deploy a more streamlined, high-tech approach to identify and target potential cheats

Hurricane Beryl destroys homes, uproots trees in Grenada

new york — The extent of Hurricane Beryl's damage became clearer Friday, as communications were reestablished with the small, storm-ravaged eastern Caribbean islands and relief began to arrive

India is likely undercounting heat deaths, affecting its response to increasingly harsh heat waves  [..]

BENGALURU, India — Months of scorching temperatures sometimes over 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) in parts of India this year — its worst heat wave in over a decade — left hundreds dead or ill

NYC’s interactive exhibition sends visitors on outer space journey

July 20 marks the 55th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon

Dangers grow for media covering environment beat

Violence against reporters covering environmental issues is trending upward, according to UNESCO and media advocates

Biden announces measures to protect against extreme weather

As the Caribbean sees its first Category 5 hurricane of the year, scientists warn that extreme weather is here to stay due to climate change

Japan's top court rules forced sterilization law unconstitutional   

Tokyo — Japan's top court ruled on Wednesday that a defunct eugenics law under which thousands of people were forcibly sterilized between 1948 and 1996 was unconstitutional

USAID helps parts of Ukraine become energy independent 

Russian shelling continues to degrade Ukraine’s energy system

LogOn: New test will be game changer in tuberculosis diagnostics

UCLA molecular bioengineer Mireille Kamariza has developed a new tuberculosis test that tackles shortcomings of existing TB diagnostics

US Supreme Court to weigh in on flavored e-cigarette products

WASHINGTON — The U

Study: Climate-induced disasters significantly weaken Pakistan’s societal resilience

islamabad — A new study has revealed that recent floods in Pakistan have substantially weakened its societal resilience in coping with and recovering from such disasters as the threat from climate change continues to grow

Street medicine teams search for homeless people to deliver lifesaving IV hydration in extreme heat

Phoenix — Alfred Handley leaned back in his wheelchair alongside a major Phoenix freeway as a street medicine team helped him get rehydrated with an intravenous saline solution dripping from a bag hanging on a pole