Climate

The first electric school buses in the United States began running a decade ago in three school districts in California, providing a ride that was much less noisy, smelly and dirty than the diesel buses kids and parents were used to. Yet despite the availability of the technology all these years, fewer than one percent of the 489,000 school buses …

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Al menos tres casas cayeron el jueves a un río en la ciudad de La Paz y varias más quedaron en riesgo tras registrarse persistentes lluvias en gran parte de Bolivia. Horacio Zapata, técnico de la Unidad de Manejo y Evaluación de Cuencas en la alcaldía de La Paz, le dijo a The Associated Press …

Katrina Cornish spends her days raising dandelions and desert shrubs. She harvests the stretchy rubber substances they produce and uses special machines to dip them into condoms, medical gloves and parts for trachea tubes. And she thinks those products could forever alter the landscape of agriculture in the United States. Cornish, a professor at Ohio State University who studies rubber …

MUYNAK, Uzbekistan (AP) — Toxic dust storms, anti-government protests, the fall of the Soviet Union — for generations, none of it has deterred Nafisa Bayniyazova and her family from making a living growing melons, pumpkins and tomatoes on farms around the Aral Sea. Bayniyazova, 50, has spent most of her life near Muynak, in northwestern Uzbekistan, tending the land. Farm …

Al menos 123 personas han muerto por incendios forestales en Chile, lo que llevó a su presidente a declarar dos días de luto nacional. La devastación ocurría poco después de la declaración de desastre en Colombia por otros incendios. Los científicos dicen que el cambio climático hace más probables las olas de calor y sequías como las que sufre ahora …