Tips from cybersecurity experts to keep you safe and your computer (and boss) happy while you’re working from home during the coronavirus outbreak.
Author: Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY
Before coronavirus, Seattle was under siege by the deadliest flu in history. Here’s what life was like.
As the coronavirus epidemic threatens Seattle and Washington, there’s an odd echo of 1918 when the Spanish flu had the city on lock down.
Is watching Netflix bad for the environment? Scientists take a deeper look at data centers
If you’re worried about climate change, should you feel guilty about going online? Maybe you don’t need to put down your phone just yet, a study says.
Jeff Bezos will spend $10 billion of his own money to go after climate change
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announces he will commit $10 billion of his personal fortune to fight climate change with the Bezos Earth Fund.
Like a ‘second wife’: Wind energy gives American farmers a new crop to sell in tough times
In an increasingly precarious time for the nation’s farmers and ranchers, some in the wind belt have a new commodity to sell — access to the wind.
10 years to save planet Earth: Here are 6 imaginative climate change solutions
Giant ice cubes. Artificial clouds. A planet-size parasol. Could these controversial technological fixes known as geoengineering save mankind?
Why Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Uber are spending billions on local politics
Tech companies — long focused on national and global issues — are increasingly getting involved in the nitty-gritty of local politics.
Diseases like West Nile, EEE and flesh-eating bacteria are flourishing due to climate change
Climate change is altering the nation’s environment and the microbes, viruses and insects that inhabit it, potentially increasing where diseases are.
Online haters are targeting Greta Thunberg with conspiracy theories and fake photos
Greta Thunberg is the target of a flood of online abuse and scores of misinformation and conspiracy theories.
Ocean heatwave known as ‘the blob’ warms up sea off West Coast, threatening animals
The so-called blobcovers an area of 4 million square miles, or three times the size of Alaska.