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By Angela Dewan, CNN More than 100 fossil fuel companies are understood to have sent 500 lobbyists to the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland, more than any single country at the summit, according to the environmental campaign group Global Witness. The group analyzed the UN’s provisional list of named corporate attendees and found at

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Modern sloths hang out in trees, move at a slow pace and eat a vegetarian diet — but the same thing can’t be said for their extinct relative, Mylodon. This ancient ground sloth, which lived in South America until about 10,000 years ago, chowed down on meat as well as plants,

By Angela Dewan, Ivana Kottasová, Amy Cassidy and Ingrid Formanek, CNN Delegates from around the world hammered out a number of agreements in the first week of COP26, an international summit where global leaders are attempting to limit the climate crisis. There were a few breakthroughs, but some experts warn the deals may not meet

By Angus Watson, CNN A man is missing after a reported shark attack at a beach in North Fremantle, Western Australia according to police and the state government. Police and surf rescue helicopters as well as water police and surf lifesaving personnel responded to reports of the “serious shark bite incident” at Port Beach around

By Mick Krever and Phil Black, CNN Video with Martin Bourke and Mark Baron, CNN Design by Henrik Pettersson, CNN In the spitting rain that is endemic to the Netherlands, Anneke van Lelieveld bundles up in her bright orange cardigan at her home on the New Merwede River, and turns to look out over the

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Vanessa Nakate was 21 when deadly floods inundated vast swaths of East Africa in 2018. She didn’t consider herself a climate activist at the time, but soon after that disaster she and her younger siblings and cousins decorated placards and started climate protests in her home city of Kampala, the capital

By Ivana Kottasová, Amy Cassidy, Ingrid Formanek and Angela Dewan, CNN It was energy day at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow on Thursday — and some pretty big announcements were made on the end of coal and fossil fuel financing. Here’s what happened on the fourth day of the climate summit. COP26 pledges could

By Ashley Strickland, CNN For hundreds of thousands of years, the fossil of a small child has been hidden in the darkness of South Africa’s Rising Star cave. The skull, from a child that was 4 to 6 years old at the time of death, is the first known to belong to an ancient human

By Ashley Strickland, CNN We truly are made of star stuff, as astronomer Carl Sagan once said. For the first time, astronomers have detected an element found in our bodies in a galaxy that is more than 12 billion light-years away. The element, fluorine, can be found in our bones and teeth as fluoride. “We

By Ashley Strickland, CNN It’s quite a large to-do list. Over the next decade, scientists aim to unlock the secrets of the universe and identify Earth-like planets outside of our solar system to find other habitable worlds. Ultimately, this research could reveal if we truly are alone. These are the top priorities outlined in the

By Megan Marples, CNN A spectacle of light will shine Thursday evening as the South Taurid meteors shoot across the sky. The meteor shower peaks in the late hours of November 4 through the dawn of November 5, according to EarthSky. The exact peak of the shower is 1 a.m. ET, or 5 a.m. GMT,