(Reuters) – Tropical Storm Ophelia is expected to strengthen gradually over the next two days and become a hurricane by Thursday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Tuesday. Ophelia is about 780 miles (1,260 km) west-southwest of the Azores with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph (85 km/h), the NHC said. (Reporting by […]
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By Edgard Garrido and Lizbeth Diaz SAN JUAN PILCAYA, Mexico (Reuters) – Rubble is all that remains of hundreds of houses rent asunder by the earthquake that struck Mexico in September, leaving owners lodging with relatives or friends, hoping their homes can be rebuilt or they can find new ones. http://reut.rs/2yUFmHr At least 369 people […]
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By Alissa de Carbonnel BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A European Union proposal to promote electric cars will shy away from quotas and instead include carbon credits that carmakers can use to offset emissions targets, EU sources told Reuters. The proposal is expected on Nov. 8, the sources said, and will introduce new CO2 standards for cars […]
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By Geert De Clercq PARIS (Reuters) – The spent-fuel pools of French utility EDF’s nuclear reactors are highly vulnerable to attacks, Greenpeace said in a report published on Tuesday. Written by a group of nuclear experts and delivered to French authorities, the report says that spent-fuel pools, which typically contain the equivalent of one to […]
Read More AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The incoming Dutch government plans to shut all coal-fired power plants by the year 2030, it said in its coalition pact published on Tuesday. The five remaining plants in the country are highly controversial because they cost billions of euros to build and three have only recently been completed. The Netherlands is […]
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TOKYO (Reuters) – A district court in Fukushima prefecture on Tuesday ruled that Tokyo Electric Power and the Japanese government were liable for damages totaling about 500 million yen ($4.44 million) in the largest class action lawsuit brought over the 2011 nuclear disaster, Kyodo news agency said. A group of about 3,800 people, mostly in […]
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TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia’s navy rescued almost 100 migrants from a sinking boat off its southeast coast late on Monday, authorities said, hours after eight people being smuggled to Europe drowned in the same stretch of water. The incidents coincided with the launch of joint patrols by the Tunisian and Italian navies to stem migrant […]
Read More TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia’s navy rescued almost 100 migrants from a sinking boat off its southeast coast late on Monday, authorities said, hours after eight people being smuggled to Europe drowned in the same stretch of water. The incidents coincided with the launch of joint patrols by the Tunisian and Italian navies to stem migrant […]
Read More (Reuters) – An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 hit northern Chile early on Tuesday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. The quake was recorded 73km (45 miles) east of Arica at a depth of 82km. No tsunami warning was in effect, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center. (editing by John Stonestreet)
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By Benjamin Cooper SYDNEY (Reuters) – The World Solar Challenge began on Sunday with 42 solar cars crossing Australia’s tropical north to its southern shores, a grueling 3,000 km (1,864 mile) race through the outback. The race from the northern city of Darwin to the southern city of Adelaide is expected to take a week […]
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By Rod Nickel and Jessica Resnick-Ault BILOXI/PASCAGOULA, Miss. (Reuters) – Hurricane Nate weakened to a tropical depression on Sunday after coming ashore in Mississippi, flooding roads and buildings but sparing the state from catastrophic damages. Maximum sustained winds from Nate, the fourth major storm to hit the United States in less than two months, dropped […]
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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Monday he would sign a proposed rule on Tuesday to begin withdrawing from the Clean Power Plan, former President Barack Obama’s centerpiece regulation to fight climate change. “Here’s the president’s message: The war on coal is over,” EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt […]
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