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NOAA gets dire warning about solar geoengineering

The sun sets over Phoenix during a heat wave last July. | Matt York/AP By Robin Bravender 03/29/2024 05:47 PM EDT a one-page form with the Commerce Department 10 days before they do so, thanks to a law from the 1970s that requires reporting of efforts to modify the weather. That’s not enough, say academics

Ex-Obama officials rue missed chances on climate action

Then-Secretary of Energy Steven Chu (right) and then-President Barack Obama in February 2009. In a newly released interview, Chu said Obama should have used “the power of the presidency” to win lawmakers’ votes. | Ron Sachs/AFP via Getty Images By Robin Bravender, Timothy Cama and Kevin Bogardus 03/29/2024 05:47 PM EDT Oral histories produced by

Study says since 1979 climate change has made heat waves last longer, spike hotter, hurt more people

Climate change is making giant heat waves crawl slower across the globe and they are baking more people for a longer time with higher temperatures over larger areas, a new study finds. Since 1979, global heat waves are moving 20% more slowly — meaning more people stay hot longer — and they are happening 67%

Poland’s president vetoes law on free access to morning-after pill for ages 15 and above

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s President Andrzej Duda on Friday vetoed a law that would have allowed over-the-counter access to the morning-after pill for girls and women ages 15 and above, his office said. Duda said he was concerned about the health of minors and heeding the voices of parents. A statement by Duda’s office

Blind people can hear and feel April’s total solar eclipse with new technology

WASHINGTON (AP) — While eclipse watchers look to the skies, people who are blind or visually impaired will be able to hear and feel the celestial event. Sound and touch devices will be available at public gatherings on April 8, when a total solar eclipse crosses North America, the moon blotting out the sun for

5 dead and over 100 hospitalized from recalled Japanese health supplements

TOKYO (AP) — Five people who took a Japanese health supplement have died and more than 100 have been hospitalized as of Friday, a week after a pharmaceutical company issued a recall of the products, officials said. Osaka-based Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co. came under fire for not going public quickly with problems known internally as early

Alabama holds off top-seeded North Carolina 89-87 to reach Elite Eight for 2nd time ever :: WRALSportsFan.com

By BETH HARRIS, AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Alabama’s mantra for this NCAA Tournament is next — as in the next play, next game, next everything. What’s next for the Crimson Tide is the second Elite Eight in school history. Grant Nelson converted a go-ahead three-point play with 38 seconds

Takeaways: AP investigation reveals Black people bear disproportionate impact of police force

PATERSON, N.J. (AP) — Black people accounted for a disproportionate number of people who died after being restrained, beaten or shocked with stun guns by police officers in the United States, according to an investigation by The Associated Press. The investigation, led by AP with FRONTLINE (PBS) and the Howard Centers for Investigative Journalism, found

He didn’t trust police but sought their help anyway. Two days later, he was dead

PATERSON, N.J. (AP) — Jameek Lowery entered the dimly lit lobby of the city’s police headquarters in a panic. He was having a mental breakdown — and needed help. Barefoot and wearing only pajama pants and a sweatshirt in the pre-dawn hours of Jan. 5, 2019, Lowery pulled out his cellphone and began a social

For years she thought her son had died of an overdose. The police video changed all that

BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — It was in the den that Karen Goodwin most strongly felt her son’s presence: On the coffee table were his ashes, inside a clock with its hands forever frozen at 12:35 a.m., the moment that a doctor had pronounced him dead. As Goodwin swept and dusted the room, she’d often find