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CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the Kyoto Protocol, an agreement reached in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997, mandating that industrialized nations cut their greenhouse gas emissions. Facts 192 parties have ratified the protocol (191 states and one regional economic integration organization). The United States has not; it dropped out in 2001. The protocol mandated

By Ella Nilsen, CNN As Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine disrupts energy supply and forces world leaders to examine their dependence on Russian oil and natural gas, leaders in the United States and Europe are scrambling to fill the gaps. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson this week advocated for new oil and gas drilling in

By Gabriel Kinder, CNN Survivors of Russia’s siege on the Ukrainian city of Mariupol are reporting that some residents are being forced to collect rain and melt snow for drinking water. For Doc Hendley, the water crisis in Ukraine is only getting more urgent. “Bottled water and sometimes even tap water in these communities is

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN With winter finally coming to an end, millions of people in India — and other parts of the world home to Hindus — are gearing up for one of the most joyous celebrations of the year. That celebration is Holi, the Hindu festival of love, color and spring. It’s a time

By Katie Hunt, CNN The mission to launch Europe’s first planetary rover — designed to search for signs of life on Mars — has been suspended, the European Space Agency said Thursday. The ExoMars Rover, a collaboration between ESA and the Russian space agency Roscosmos, had been on track to leave for Mars in September

By Angie Orellana Hernandez, CNN An everyday item in your kitchen is a better home for many diverse types of bacteria than a petri dish in a laboratory, new research revealed. A common sponge’s spatial partitioning — the way it’s divided into different sectors of various sizes — caters to bacteria that prefer isolated environments

By Megan Marples, CNN A new dinosaur species from the early Jurassic period was discovered in southwestern China, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal eLife. Scientists originally found remains of an armored dinosaur, which they named Yuxisaurus kopchicki, in 2017 in the Yuxi region of Yunnan province, an area that has been

By David Shortell, Donie O’Sullivan, Kaitlan Collins and Sam Fossum, CNN Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin, known as the Taoiseach, tested positive for Covid-19 Wednesday while attending a gala in Washington, DC, that had just been addressed by President Joe Biden. Martin left the gathering for The Ireland Funds after his positive result was confirmed,

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Eugene Parker, an astrophysicist who pioneered the solar research field of heliophysics, has died at age 94. Parker died Tuesday, according to the University of Chicago, where he joined the faculty in 1955 and eventually became the S. Chandrasekhar Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus. Parker’s work revolutionized human understanding of the sun

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The James Webb Space Telescope has taken one giant step closer in its mission to unlock the mysteries of the universe. The world’s premier space observatory has successfully completed a number of steps crucial for aligning its 18 gold mirror segments. Having checked this milestone off of Webb’s list, the telescope