Republic of Congo Signals a Turn in Poaching Fight
WASHINGTON — Denis Sassou-Nguesso, president of the Republic of Congo, smiled broadly as he set fire to more than five tons of illegally hunted elephant tusks this week in Brazzaville, the nation’s...
View ArticleDuke Energy Agrees to Pay $102 Million for Breaches
Duke Energy, the nation’s largest utility corporation, pleaded guilty on Thursday to criminal violations of the federal Clean Water Act for the discharge of coal ash, a potentially toxic waste product,
View ArticleRomania President Raises Alarm Over Illegal Logging
BUCHAREST, Romania — Romania's president says a new law allowing the logging of small woods could lead to "uncontrolled deforestation" in the country, posing a national security threat. President Klaus
View ArticleW.H.O. Plan Aims to Combat Resistance to Antibiotic Drugs
GENEVA — United Nations member states agreed Monday to a plan to tackle resistance to antibiotic drugs, spurred by warnings of a catastrophe for public health and heavy economic losses if they did not
View ArticleCourt Gives Obama a Climate Change Win
WASHINGTON — A federal court on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit by the nation’s largest coal companies and 14 coal-producing states that sought to block one of President Obama’s signature climate change...
View ArticleA Chinese Ebola Drug Raises Hopes, and Rancor
After a nurse who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone was discharged Wednesday from a Rome hospital, a doctor there described the experimental treatments the patient had received as “absolutely miraculous.”
View ArticleStudy: The Greener a State's Legislator, the Cleaner the Air
WASHINGTON — States where the congressional delegation votes greener tend to have air that's cleaner, spewing less heat-trapping gas, a new study finds. Researchers at Michigan State University studied
View ArticleProposed Rule for Big Trucks Aims at Cutting Fuel Emissions
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is set on Friday to unveil a major climate change regulation intended to rein in planet-warming carbon pollution from heavy-duty trucks. The rule, to be unveiled
View ArticleCalifornia Drought Sends U.S. Water Agency Back to Drawing Board
FOLSOM, Calif. — Drew Lessard stood on top of Folsom Dam and gazed at the Sierra Nevada, which in late spring usually gushes enough melting snow into the reservoir to provide water for a million people.
View ArticleBlack Children in U.S. Are Much More Likely to Live in Poverty, Study Finds
Black children were almost four times as likely as white children to be living in poverty in 2013, a new report has found, the latest evidence that the economic recovery is leaving behind some of the...
View ArticleIran State Media Say Flash Floods Kill 11 People in North
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's state media say heavy rains triggered flash floods that killed 11 people in a mountainous area in the country's north. State TV says authorities fear more casualties from the Sunday
View ArticleInnovation Sputters in Battle Against Climate Change
In the race to develop technologies to slow climate change, the world is off track. That’s the latest assessment from the International Energy Agency, which presented a bleak outlook ahead of the planned
View ArticleDespite Pollution Warnings, an Official Will Jump Into Onondaga Lake
As head of the Department of Environmental Conservation, Joseph Martens oversaw the decision to ban hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in New York State. Now Mr. Martens has decided to jump, though
View ArticleHillary Clinton Lays Out Climate Change Plan
Setting ambitious goals for producing energy from the sun, wind and other renewable sources, Hillary Rodham Clinton seized on an issue Monday that increasingly resonates with Democratic voters and sets
View ArticleLebanese Seethe as Stinking Garbage Piles Grow in Beirut and Beyond
BEIRUT, Lebanon — On a normal weekend night, the revelers at Floyd the Dog, a bar in one of this city’s rowdiest party neighborhoods, spill onto the sidewalk, drinks in hand, to smoke cigarettes in the
View ArticleBP Posts Loss as Oil Spill Settlement and Sagging Demand Take Toll
LONDON — The British oil giant BP said on Tuesday that it lost $5.8 billion in the second quarter, reflecting a huge settlement over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The roughly 40 percent fall in
View ArticleVietnam Floods Kill 17 and Threaten to Pollute Ha Long Bay
Flooding in northern Vietnam has killed at least 17 people, with the continuing rain prompting concerns of landslides and of pollution from inundated coal mines reaching one of the country’s most famous
View ArticleA Milestone in Africa: No Polio Cases in a Year
It has been one full year since polio was detected anywhere in Africa, a significant milestone in global health that has left health experts around the world quietly celebrating. The goal had seemed
View ArticleEgypt: Dozens Die as Temperatures Reach 111 Degrees
A scorching heat wave has gripped Egypt this week, killing at least 42 people, including a German man, three patients in a psychiatric hospital and three detainees at a jail, officials said Tuesday. While
View ArticleAs Seas Rise, Saltwater Plants Offer Hope Farms Will Survive
VEDARANYAM, India — On a sun-scorched wasteland near India's southern tip, an unlikely garden filled with spiky shrubs and spindly greens is growing, seemingly against all odds. The plants are living
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