Focus on Environment
Trinidad and Tobago cleans up beaches following 12-kilometer oil spill
(Reuters) – First responders and volunteers from Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday sought to contain an oil spill detected last week in the...
For threatened polar bears, the climate change diet is a losing proposition
For polar bears, the climate change diet is a losing proposition, a new study suggests. With Arctic sea ice shrinking from climate change,...
‘Energy needs’: Study shows polar bears can’t survive on extended land-based diet
Polar bears along Hudson Bay stranded on land by a lengthening summer tried everything to feed themselves, from swimming after seal carcasses to...
Arizona Republicans challenge Biden’s designation of a national monument near the Grand Canyon
The Arizona Legislature’s top two Republicans have challenged Democratic President Joe Biden’s creation of a new national monument last summer just outside Grand...
Atmospheric rivers boosts California’s hydropower supplies
By Nicole Jao NEW YORK (Reuters) – A pair of atmospheric rivers that drenched California in recent weeks will bolster the state’s hydropower...
One in five of world’s migratory species at risk of extinction – UN report
By David Stanway SINGAPORE (Reuters) – More than a fifth of the world’s migrating species are at risk of going extinct as a...
An offshore oil spill has caused a ‘national emergency,’ Trinidad and Tobago prime minister says
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister said a large oil spill near the twin-island nation in the eastern...
Greening Mardi Gras: Environmentalists push alternatives to plastic Carnival beads in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It’s a beloved century-old Carnival season tradition in New Orleans — masked riders on lavish floats fling strings of...
Ravaged by wildfires, Chile’s national botanic garden seeks to regrow
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – After deadly fast-moving wildfires tore through central Chile, killing at least 131 people last week, most of the country’s National...
US wildlife service considering endangered status for tiny snail near Nevada lithium mine
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Federal wildlife officials have agreed to conduct a full, year-long review to determine whether a tiny snail found only...
