Scientists have proposed a surprising connection between solar flares and earthquakes. When solar activity disturbs the ionosphere, it may generate electric fields that penetrate fragile fracture ...

She is still only a child, yet she is already being prepared for a future with her finger on North Korea's nuclear button. Aged somewhere between 12 and 14, Ju Ae has stepped from the shadows to stand ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. OpenAI is prioritising the advancement of ChatGPT over more long-term research, prompting the departure of ...

Syria's civil war cannot be traced to a single environmental cause but is deeply rooted in policy and socioeconomic failures that increased agricultural vulnerability. The 2007-2009 drought caused a ...

The problem with pulling a trigger is that you can’t unpull it — a lesson some hunters learn the hard way. Excited to raise your shotgun in the direction of what you think is a snow goose, only to ...

Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has called for a UN fact-finding committee to investigate the death of Khosrow Alikordi, an attorney known for representing political prisoners ...

The top scientist for the Geneva-based United Nations Environmental Programme said the organization is exploring the topic of climate engineering because “growing concerns about the lack of global ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kyle Peterson, Allysia Finley, and Kim Strassel. Iran keeps digging itself into a bigger hole as it tries to salvage what’s left of its nuclear ...

European powers referred Iran to the United Nations to face the re-imposition of tough international sanctions after the Islamic Republic failed to comply with demands to negotiate with the US and ...

Britain, France, and Germany have triggered the so-called snapback mechanism of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal to reinstate UN sanctions against Tehran. The European trio, known as the E3, wrote to the UN ...