The San Francisco Giants acquire veteran shortstop Alvin Dark from the Milwaukee Braves and then sign Dark to a two-year contract as team manager. The Giants send infielder Andre Rodgers to the Braves as compensation for Dark.

Carbon emissions from wildfires broke records around the world this summer, according to the European Union’s Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service. Parts of Siberia produced their highest fire-related emissions since the agency first began keeping ...

Los Angeles International Airport was the fifth-busiest airport in the world in 2021, the airport announced on Monday, April 11, based on preliminary figures released by the Airports Council International World. “LAX continues to welcome more and more ...

From Brady and the Bucs to the Tokyo Olympics, it was a year to remember. As athletes returned to the playing field and fans returned to the stands, there was some level of normalcy in the sports world in 2021. Still, COVID-19 left its mark on athletics ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Some 200 environmental and land defense activists were killed around the world in 2021, including some 54 in Mexico, which assumed the position of the deadliest country in the annual report by nongovernmental organization Global Witness.

Shark attacks increased around the world in 2021 following three consecutive years of decline, though beach closures in 2020 caused by the COVID-19 pandemic could be making the numbers seem more dramatic than they are, officials said Monday. The U.S. once ...

From uneven economic recovery to unequal access to vaccines; from widening income losses to divergence in learning, COVID-19 has had a disproportionate impact on the poor and vulnerable in 2021. It is causing reversals in development and is dealing a ...

Today NASA and NOAA dropped their annual analysis of global temperatures: Last year was tied with 2018 as the sixth-hottest ever, but cooler than 2020. A good sign, right? Yeah, no. Not in the least. “It's easy to want to focus on that year-to-year ...