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FILE PHOTO: Smoke rises from mutual aid wildfire GCU007 in the Grande Prairie Forest Area near TeePee Creek, Alberta, Canada May 10, 2024. Alberta Wildfire/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
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Spreading Western Canada wildfire prompts thousands to evacuate oil hub

The season's first major wildfire continued to burn across Western Canada as authorities advised residents of an oil hub in Alberta to prepare...

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Strong earthquake strikes near Mexico-Guatemala border

MEXICO CITY/GUATEMALA CITY – A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck near the coast of Chiapas in Mexico on Sunday morning, the United States Geological...

Thousands of residents of Fort McMurray and the nearby community of Saprae Creek remain on an evacuation alert as an out-of-control wildfire burns south of the city, but municipal officials say in their latest update that winds on Saturday appear to be pushing the flames further south. A massive swathe of burned forest is seen as a wildfire designated MWF017 by the Alberta Wildfire Service, top right, continues to burn near Ft. McMurray, Alta., in a Saturday, May 11, 2024, handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Alberta Wildfire Service, *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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Evacuation alert still active for Fort McMurray as out of control fire burns

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — Wildfires raging in northern Alberta prompted the mayor of one the province's largest municipalities to give his community a...

The latest round of protests has been running since Wednesday (AFP)
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Hundreds protest outside German Tesla factory

More than a thousand environmentalists protested outside Tesla's factory near Berlin Saturday, police said, a day after some of them tried to force...

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Fort McMurray among communities on evacuation alert after wildfires erupt

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — Fort McMurray’s mayor took to social media to deliver a pep talk Saturday as the northern Alberta city once...

FILE PHOTO: The headquarters of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are seen in Washington, July 6, 2009. REUTERS/Jim Bourg/File Photo
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Court rejects Republican states’ challenge to SEC’s ESG proxy vote rule

A federal appeals court on Friday dismissed a lawsuit by four Republican-led states that sought to block a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission...

Faced with dwindling fish numbers, Indigenous Ecuadorans look to the spirit world for help (AFP)
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Envious shamans and climate change: Diverse threats to Ecuadoran Amazon

Experts point the finger at pollution, deforestation and climate change wreaking havoc on the second-largest protected area in Ecuador. 

FILE - A grain wagon supports a sign against the proposed transmission line by American Transmission Company, ITC Midwest and Dairyland Power Cooperative, along Highway 18-151 near Ridgeway, Wis., Dec. 8, 2018. Utilities looking to finish building a high-voltage power line linking Iowa and Wisconsin completed a contentious land deal Thursday that allows them to build on a Mississippi River federal wildlife refuge. (Barry Adams/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File, File)
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Utilities complete contentious land swap to clear way for power line in Mississippi River refuge

Utilities looking to finish building a high-voltage power line linking Iowa and Wisconsin completed a contentious land deal Thursday that allows them to...

A federal judge has tossed a lawsuit brought by children in California that claimed the US government was harming them by failing to clamp down on pollution (AFP)
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Judge tosses California children’s pollution suit against US govt

A federal lawsuit brought by a group of California children who claimed the US government was harming them by failing to clamp down...

Members of the Woodland Cree First Nation take part in a blockade of an oil lease road in northern Alberta as shown in this undated handout image. Police say they're present at the blockade but aren't enforcing an injunction for members of the First Nation to clear the site. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Woodland Cree First Nation-Paul Lavoie
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Police present but not enforcing injunction at Alberta oil blockade

Woodland Cree First Nation in Alberta says it hasn't been consulted on Obsidian Energy's expansion plans and has concerns about earthquakes resulting from...

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