Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks every April Fool's Day. As a result, the release of Gmail with what sounded like a preposterous amount of storage capacity 20 years ago was believed to be one of them.
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French regulators have ordered Apple to stop selling the iPhone 12, saying it emits electromagnetic radiation levels that are above European Union standards for exposure.
The world is falling well short of the progress needed to meet the United Nations' sustainable development goals by 2030 in areas ranging from poverty to clean energy to biodiversity.
A monster hurricane, destructive storms and a drought that disrupted business across the economy led the list of the year’s costliest disasters.
A report by the World Economic Forum says climate change is the global economy’s biggest long-term challenge but one the world is least prepared to tackle because of short-term problems led by a cost-of-living crisis.
The world’s glaciers are shrinking and disappearing faster than scientists thought, with two-thirds of them projected to melt out of existence by the end of the century at current climate change trends, according to a new study. But if the world can limit future warming to just a few more tenths of a degree and fulfill international goals — technically possible but unlikely according to many scientists — then slightly less than half the globe’s glaciers will
Brazil’s President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced Thursday that Amazon activist Marina Silva will be the country’s next minister of environment.
The Group of Seven leading economies have created an open and international climate club in which countries are to cooperate in the fight against global warming.
The Group of Seven leading economies have created an open and international climate club in which countries are to cooperate in the fight against global warming.
Experts say this summit’s success or failure centers on the issue. And most of the negotiators and public faces of the issue are women.