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ISIS affiliate claims spate of attacks on Taliban in Afghan city of Jalalabad

September 24, 2021 4:14 am CNN Newsource

By Tim Lister, CNN The eastern city of Jalalabad in Afghanistan has seen a spate of attacks against the Taliban this week by the group IS Khorasan…

ISIS affiliate claims spate of attacks on Taliban in Afghan city of Jalalabad

September 24, 2021 4:14 am CNN

CNN By Tim Lister, CNN The eastern city of Jalalabad in Afghanistan has seen a spate of attacks against the Taliban this week by the group IS…

Catalan independence leader Carles Puigdemont arrested in Italy four years after fleeing Spain

September 24, 2021 2:16 am CNN Newsource

By Al Goodman, CNN Former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont was arrested on the Italian island of Sardinia on Thursday on charges related to his…

What dinosaur diseases — which might seem familiar — can tell us about how they lived and died

September 23, 2021 1:47 am CNN Newsource

By Katie Hunt, CNN Tyrannosaurus rex battled parasites and got gout from its meat-rich diet. Duck-billed hadrosaurs suffered cancerous tumors, and a…

What is COP26? How the pivotal UN conference could avert global climate ‘catastrophe’

October 27, 2021 6:21 am CNN Newsource

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN The COP26 international climate talks in Glasgow, which begin on October 31, couldn’t come at a more crucial time. A…

China’s Xi Jinping promises to halt new coal projects abroad amid climate crisis

September 22, 2021 7:16 am CNN

CNN By Caitlin Hu and Angela Dewan, CNN In a rare address to the UN General Assembly, Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday made a major new…

Millions of deaths could be avoided under new air quality guidelines, WHO says

September 22, 2021 6:01 am CNN Newsource

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN New air quality guidelines published on Wednesday by the World Health Organization could prevent millions of deaths globally…

Biden called for diplomacy over conflict at the UN General Assembly. Here’s how world leaders responded

September 22, 2021 5:52 am CNN

CNN By Kara Fox, CNN In his United National General Assembly debut on Tuesday, United States President Joe Biden declared a “new era” of…

Biden called for diplomacy over conflict at the UN General Assembly. Here’s how world leaders responded

September 22, 2021 5:52 am CNN Newsource

By Kara Fox, CNN In his United National General Assembly debut on Tuesday, United States President Joe Biden declared a “new era” of US…

‘Giant flying murder heads’ and other creatures that ruled the ancient sky

September 22, 2021 1:24 am CNN Newsource

By Ashley Strickland, CNN One close glimpse of a modern bird, especially around the eyes, and it may feel like you’re looking into the ancient…

Taliban request representation at the United Nations, kicking off credentials battle

September 21, 2021 3:05 pm CNN Newsource

By Richard Roth and Caitlin Hu, CNN The Taliban have requested representation at this week’s United Nations General Assembly, a move that is…

China’s Xi Jinping promises to halt new coal projects abroad amid climate crisis

September 21, 2021 7:23 am CNN Newsource

By Caitlin Hu and Angela Dewan, CNN In a rare address to the UN General Assembly, Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday made a major new climate…

Northern Hemisphere’s summer of wildfires let off record-breaking carbon emissions

September 21, 2021 5:21 am CNN Newsource

By Amy Woodyatt, CNN The amount of carbon emitted from severe wildfires that tore across many parts of the Northern Hemisphere this summer broke…

What we’ve been getting wrong about dinosaurs

September 21, 2021 2:47 am CNN Newsource

By Katie Hunt, CNN Defined by their disappearance dinosaurs might appear to be evolutionary failures. Not so. Dinosaurs survived and thrived for 165…

‘Not counting our chickens’: UK’s Boris Johnson says world is watching for US to commit on climate finance

September 20, 2021 10:19 am CNN Newsource

By Angela Dewan and Ella Nilsen, CNN UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Monday the world would have to wait to hear from US President Joe Biden…

New lunar samples reveal more recent volcanic activity on the moon

October 7, 2021 11:38 am CNN

CNN By Ashley Strickland, CNN When its Chang’e-5 mission landed on the moon in December 2020, China became only the third country to collect…

See the harvest moon shine in the night sky tonight

September 20, 2021 1:27 am CNN Newsource

By Shirin Ali, CNN As the fall season approaches and colder temperatures set in, there’s a silver lining to look up to — literally…

The mysterious sex lives of dinosaurs

September 20, 2021 1:20 am CNN Newsource

By Katie Hunt, CNN Dinosaurs must have had sex to reproduce but how they did it — with their neck frills, armored plates and tails tipped with…

This is what happens to all the rats when cities flood

September 19, 2021 3:05 am CNN Newsource

By Amanda Schupak, CNN In the wake of Hurricane Ida, the pummeling rain that hit cities up and down the East Coast at the start of September…

Woolly mammoth resurrection project receives $15 million boost

September 18, 2021 8:00 am CNN Newsource

By Ashley Strickland, CNN We live in a time bookended by extremes. Many believe our future is in space, where one day humans will live across the…

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