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Europe’s STOXX 600 flat on rising Middle East tensions, energy stocks spike

European shares were flat on Friday after hitting a one-week high in early trade, as rising tensions in the Middle East eroded some...

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Surging US energy shares reflect robust growth, inflation worries

One key driver is the price of oil: U.S. crude has risen 20% year-to-date due to an unexpectedly strong U.S. economy and worries...

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Elon Musk, Argentine president see eye-to-eye on boosting free markets, lithium

Billionaire Elon Musk and Argentina's President Javier Milei promised to work together to promote free markets. They also discussed lithium, seen as key...

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What is happening to the sawfish? Biologists in Florida investigate why the ancient fish are dying

One potential factor is climate change, which superheated Florida waters last summer, causing other marine damage, such as coral bleaching and the deaths...

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US issues over $580 million in advance EV tax rebates to auto dealers since Jan 1

The U.S. government has reimbursed auto dealers for more than $580 million in advance point-of-sale consumer electric vehicle tax credit payments since Jan....

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Climate targets group trustees seek to calm storm over supply chain carbon offset plan

Trustees of a climate targets verification group sought to assuage concern over their plan to allow offsetting of companies' supply chain emissions.

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Oil and gas companies must pay more to drill on U.S. public lands under new rule

Oil and gas companies will have to pay more to drill on U.S. public lands and satisfy stronger requirements to clean up old...

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Canada’s PM Trudeau says he doesn’t understand why NDP is pulling back from carbon price support

Canada's NDP has recently shifted its position on the carbon price, saying it is not the "be-all, end-all" and encouraging premiers to come...

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Dead whale in New Jersey had a fractured skull among numerous injuries, experts find

The animal's cause of death is of intense interest to many amid an ongoing controversy involving a belief by opponents of offshore wind...

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UK climate change minister Graham Stuart resigns

Britain's climate change minister Graham Stuart resigned from the government after eight years on Friday, saying it was the right time to step...

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