By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. federal government is working on a long-term plan to help Puerto Rico rebuild after Hurricane Maria tore up the island territory’s power grid and other infrastructure three weeks ago, an administration official said on Wednesday. The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote on Thursday on […]
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By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Oil can keep flowing through the contested Dakota Access Pipeline while the Army Corps of Engineers conducts a new environmental review of the duct through next April, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled the court would not void a permit that has allowed […]
Read More (Reuters) – Ophelia has strengthened into the 10th hurricane of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said late Wednesday afternoon. Ophelia was about 760 miles (1,220 km) southwest of the Azores and packing maximum sustained winds of 75 miles per hour (120 km per hour), the NHC said, adding that […]
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By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg’s charity gave another $64 million to a campaign that aims to slash the number of U.S. coal-fired plants by two thirds by 2020, he said on Wednesday. Bloomberg Philanthropies made the donation to the Beyond Coal campaign run by non-profit Sierra Club, and […]
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PARIS (Reuters) – France and the European Union need independent scientific experts to guide them on divisive environmental issues such as pesticides, French President Emmanuel Macron said, criticizing some research as prone to lobbying pressures. The EU has struggled to find a consensus on farming questions such as pesticides and genetically modified crops, and is […]
Read More By Ronnie Cohen (Reuters Health) – U.S. police killed 1,166 people – more than three a day – in 2015, but an official government count missed a majority of the deaths, a new study shows. The Guardian, a U.K.-based newspaper and media company with U.S. and international editions, counted 93 percent of the U.S. police-related […]
Read More GABORONE (Reuters) – Anthrax has been detected in dead hippos floating in the Okavango River, officials in Botswana said on Wednesday, after more than 100 of the animals were suspected to have been killed by the disease in neighboring Namibia. Botswana’s Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism advised people not to touch the […]
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By Alister Doyle Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) – A Swiss company will start to extract carbon dioxide from thin air in Iceland on Thursday, seeking to transform the gas into rock far below ground in a first test of a costly technology meant to slow climate change. The engineering experiment, by Swiss firm Climeworks with […]
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LUSAKA (Reuters) – The emergency powers invoked by Zambian President Edgar Lungu three months ago will expire with effect from midnight on Wednesday, the nation’s justice minister said. “The declaration will duly expire at midnight tonight. I wish to state however that the expiration should not be misconstrued as an invitation to break the law, […]
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s largest port remains closed on Wednesday after vessel movements were suspended when a severe storm lashed the coastal region resulting in at least eight deaths in the province, a port official said. The Durban Port manager Moshe Motlohi told Reuters it was still too early to assess the extent or […]
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s Port of Durban remained closed on Wednesday after vessel movements were suspended on Tuesday when a severe storm lashed the region, the Durban Port manager said. Moshe Motlohi told Reuters it was still too early to assess the extent or costs of damages to sub-Saharan Africa’s largest port, which is […]
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s Port of Durban remained closed on Wednesday after vessel movements were suspended on Tuesday when a severe storm lashed the region, the Durban Port manager said. Moshe Motlohi told Reuters it was still too early to assess the extent or costs of damages to sub-Saharan Africa’s largest port, which is […]
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