By Stefanie Dazio, Matthew Brown and Brian Melley The Associated Press
LONG BEACH, CALIF. » Evidence emerged Tuesday that a ship’s anchor snagged and dragged an underwater pipeline that ruptured and spilled tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil off Southern California, an accident the C...
An Illinois woman will spend four days in jail and will be barred for a year from Yellowstone National Park for not moving out of the way of a grizzly bear and three cubs while visiting the park in May.
The woman, Samantha Dehring, 25, of Carol Stream, Ill., pleaded guilty to “willfully rem...
By Brad Plumer and Winston Choi-Schagrin
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WASHINGTON » President Joe Biden has framed this moment as the country’s best chance to save the planet.
“The nation and the world are in peril,” he said weeks ago in the New York City borough of Queens, where 11 pe...
WASHINGTON » Much of the world is unprepared for the floods, hurricanes and droughts expected to worsen with climate change and urgently needs better warning systems to avert water-related disasters, according to a report by the United Nations’ weather agency.
Global water management is “fr...
By Liam Denning
Bloomberg Opinion
Charif Souki, who founded the biggest U.S. natural gas-export firm and now chairs another called Tellurian Inc., isn’t known for mincing words. And he didn’t disappoint when tackling the issue of methane emissions at a recent event hosted by the Center for Strateg...
By Asher Elbein
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The southern cassowary is often called the world’s most dangerous bird.
While shy and secretive in the forests of its native New Guinea and Northern Australia, it can be aggressive in captivity. In 2019, kicks from a captive cassowary mortally woun...
By Liz Alderman
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YVELINES, FRANCE » On a century- old farm that’s now a startup campus in this verdant region west of Paris, computer coders are learning to program cropharvesting robots. Young urbanites planning vineyards or farms that will be guided by big data are honing...
By Lindsay Whitehurst and Matthew Daly
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » President Joe Biden will restore two sprawling national monuments in Utah that have been at the center of a long-running public lands dispute, and a separate marine conservation area in New England that rece...
By Blacki Migliozzi and Hiroko Tabuchi
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Ever since a pipeline failure caused at least 126,000 gallons of oil to spill into the Pacific Ocean, threatening a fragile coastal ecosystem and forcing some of Southern California’s most popular beaches to close, off...
By David Keyton, Frank Jordans and Christina Larson The Associated Press
STOCKHOLM » Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for finding an ingenious and environmentally cleaner way to build molecules — an approach now used to make a variety of compounds, in...
By Haven Daley
The Associated Press
BENICIA, CALIF. » , and in parched California, some homeowners are buying the pricey devices.
The air-to-water systems work like air conditioners by using coils to chill air, then collect water drops in a basin.
“Our motto is, water from air isn’t magi...
By Lisa Friedman
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WASHINGTON » The Biden administration Wednesday announced it would restore climate change protections to the nation’s bedrock environmental law, the National Environmental Policy Act, which former President Donald Trump had weakened to speed the ap...
WASHINGTON » Much of the world is unprepared for the floods, hurricanes and droughts expected to worsen with climate change and urgently needs better warning systems to avert water-related disasters, according to a report by the United Nations’ weather agency.
Global water managem...
By Lauren Hirsch
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Engine No. 1, the activist investment firm that made its name by successfully taking on Exxon Mobil, announced Monday that it has taken a stake in General Motors. Unlike its bruising battle with Exxon, the purchase was pitched as a show of support ...
STOCKHOLM » Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for work that found order in seeming disorder, helping to explain and predict complex forces of nature, including expanding our understanding of climate change.
Syukuro Manabe, originally from Japan, and Klaus Has...
By Stefanie Dazio, Matthew Brown and Brian Melley The Associated Press
LONG BEACH, CALIF. » Evidence emerged Tuesday that a ship’s anchor snagged and dragged an underwater pipeline that ruptured and spilled tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil off Souther...
By Liam Denning
Bloomberg Opinion
Charif Souki, who founded the biggest U.S. natural gas-export firm and now chairs another called Tellurian Inc., isn’t known for mincing words. And he didn’t disappoint when tackling the issue of methane emissions at a recent event hosted...
By Patrick Whittle
The Associated Press
Droughts that cause leaves to turn brown and wither before they can reach peak color. Heat waves prompting leaves to fall before autumn even arrives. Extreme weather events like hurricanes that strip trees of their leaves altogether.
For a cheery au...
There’s Amazon Prime, and then there’s moving cargo by schooner
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The clouds swirled, the wind roared and the waves beat at the hull of the schooner Apollonia, but the ship stayed its course down the Hudson River in New York. Captained by ...
HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIF. » Crews on the water and on shore worked feverishly Sunday to limit environmental damage from one of the largest oil spills in recent California history, caused by a suspected leak in an underwater pipeline that fouled the sands of famed Huntington Beach an...
