Focus on Environment
‘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...
Spain’s paella rice could ‘disappear’, say farmers angry at EU rules
By Charlie Devereux, Corina Pons MADRID (Reuters) -A Spanish rice variety traditionally used to make paella is under threat from a fungus after...
B.C. snowpack about 40% below normal, as Premier Eby worries of ‘dramatic drought conditions’
COQUITLAM, B.C. — B.C.’s average snowpack is almost 40 per cent lower than normal, raising concerns about what Premier David Eby says are...
