US sues Norfolk Southern over toxic train derailment
(AFP) US officials filed suit Friday against Norfolk Southern, seeking financial penalties after the company’s...
Wind project near S.African elephant park riles activists
(AFP) Plans to build wind farms next to a South African national park have riled wildlife activists who worry the...
Dominican border wall threatens environment, mangroves
(AFP) The anti-migrant wall being built in the northwest of the Dominican Republic crisscrosses a thick mangrove forest and threatens...
Thai firefighters battle forest blaze
(AFP) Hundreds of Thai firefighters and soldiers battled a forest blaze less than 100 kilometres (60 miles) from Bangkok on...
Horses part of Native American life earlier than thought: study
(AFP) Native American people integrated horses into their communities much earlier than European colonial records suggest, according to an innovative...
France’s Macron dismisses unrest, promises drought action plan
(AFP) President Emmanuel Macron announced new water-saving measures for France on Thursday as he sought to brush aside weeks of...
EU deal to nearly double renewable energy by 2030
(AFP) The European Union reached a deal Thursday to almost double the share of renewables in the 27-nation bloc’s energy...
Canada revs up its EV batteries manufacturing
(AFP) As the world accelerates toward emissions-free driving, Canada is making a big push into batteries for electric vehicles —...
Fruit in crisis: Florida’s orange groves buffeted by hurricane, disease
(AFP) Vernon Hollingsworth grew up in Florida among his family’s orange trees, recently ravaged by a double whammy of disease...
Removing Colombian druglord’s hippos to cost $3.5 mn
(AFP) Colombia said Wednesday it was making progress on the transfer of 70 hippos to overseas sanctuaries, but mitigating the...
Danish Zoo hopes to ignite panda romance
(AFP) Concerned that its two pandas are slow to breed, Copenhagen Zoo has begun a new strategy to encourage mating...
Leaders must ‘urgently’ act to avoid climate ‘Armageddon’: Vanuatu PM
(AFP) To address the climate crisis, world leaders “need to react and react very quickly — urgently,” warned Vanuatu’s prime...
Astronomers discover one of biggest black holes ever recorded
(AFP) One of the largest black holes ever recorded has been discovered using a new technique that could spot thousands...
Senegal’s gold rush brings hope and despair
(AFP) Mohamed Bayoh climbed into the deep, pitch-black hole, hoping to emerge with a nugget that would change his life....
Car battery recycling market gears up for future boom
(AFP) Researcher Anna Vanderbruggen peers into a vat of dark bubbling liquid, the result of a process she has developed...
