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A government employee in the Honduras unpacks some of the 8,000 COVID-19 diagnostic testing kits donated by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the International Organization for Migration.

U.S. Mulls Controversial Foreign Aid Shake-up

The administration wants to channel more funds through the State Department in an effort to target emerging diseases. Critics say that could have dire impacts on the children of the world.

The Paris Zoological Park is home to Physarum polycephalum, better known as "the blob," a unicellular organism capable of learning despite its lack of neurons.

'The Blob,' A Smart Yet Brainless Organism Fit For Sci-Fi, Gets Its Own Exhibit

Is it an animal? A type of fungi? No, it's "the blob." The amorphous "slime mold" may not have a nervous system, but it's the star of a new exhibit at the Paris zoo.

A customer buys candles for electricity rationing and Holy Week at a shop in central Caracas, Venezuela, in March.

Venezuela Announces Daily 4-Hour Power Cuts Amid Drought

"It's necessary, it's a sacrifice," Electricity Minister Luis Motta Dominguez told the country on Thursday. The news broke as Venezuela's largest brewer said it will be suspending beer production.

A swarm of desert locusts flies above trees in a Kenyan village. Hundreds of millions of the insects have arrived in Kenya, where they're destroying farmland.

Locusts Are A Plague Of Biblical Scope In 2020. Why? And ... What Are They Exactly?

They're swarming in gargantuan numbers in parts of Africa and South Asia — and posing a major threat to food supply. If you have questions about these insects, we have answers.

Rain clouds form in the sky over a desalination plant in Sydney, Australia, April 29, 2015. On the world's driest inhabited continent, drought is a part of life, with the struggle to survive in a land short on water a constant thread in the country's history. California is looking to Australia for advice on surviving its own drought.

California Lawmakers Travel To Australia For Drought Lessons

California lawmakers are joining environmental, labor and business leaders on a trip to see how Australia managed its longest and most severe drought on record.

Lake Mead, which is located just outside Las Vegas, Nevada and serves as the Colorado River's largest reservoir and a key water source for Arizona, California, Nevada and Mexico, is pictured in this undated photo.

High Snowpack Could Temporarily Stave Off Colorado River Water Shortage

High snowpack in the southern Rocky Mountains this winter will likely stave off a shortage declaration in the Colorado River watershed in 2020, relieving pressure on water managers attempting to navigate future scarcity.

Study: California Drought Means Less Hydropower, More CO2 Pollution

A new report shows reduced hydroelectricity generation, due to the drought in California, has increased costs to electric ratepayers and increased greenhouse gas pollution.

One of the posters advertising the 1961 British sci-fi film "The Day the Earth Caught Fire."

Pop Culture And Climate Change

Sci-fi has been dealing with the notion of climate change since Jules Verne

Tourists, wearing face masks due to heavy smoke, take a selfie at Sydney Harbour on Dec. 19, 2019. As news of Australia's wildfires spreads around the world, fewer tourists are arriving in the country.

Australia's Massive Fires Threaten To Slow Decades-Long Economic Boom

Australia hasn't had a recession in nearly 30 years, an impressive track record for an industrialized county. But the fires threaten two pillars of the country's economy.

Flooding in Imperial Beach, Jan. 18, 2019 (left); 2007 Witch Creek Fire (right).

Roundtable: San Diego’s Climate Crisis

The impact of climate change on local businesses and homes, our oceans, and the California National Guard.

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