Dec 10 (Reuters) – Ben Nyberg stood on a sharp ridge along Hawaii’s Na Pali coast, his eyes scanning the leafy nooks of nearby red rock ridges. It was quiet, save for the faint hum of a drone flying among flocks of curious white-tailed tropicbirds. Nyberg aimed the drone closer to the opposite ridge, scanning …
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Dec 8 (Reuters) – Canada’s TC Energy shut down its Keystone pipeline in the United States after more than 14,000 barrels of crude oil spilled into a Kansas creek, making it one of the largest oil spills crude in the United States for almost a decade. The cause of the leak, which occurred in Kansas …
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WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) – The age of the dinosaurs ended in cataclysm on a spring day 66 million years ago when a 12 km wide asteroid hit Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, causing the extinction of these remarkable beasts and about three quarters of the Earth. species. But were the dinosaurs already endangered, with failing diversification …
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BRUSSELS/SAO PAULO, Dec 6 (Reuters) – The European Union approved on Tuesday a new law aimed at preventing companies from selling on the European market coffee, beef, soybeans and other products linked to deforestation in the world. The law will require companies to produce a due diligence statement showing that their supply chains do not …
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 23 (Reuters) – The United States is seeking to crack down on environmental criminals responsible for growing deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon, using sanctions such as the Magnitsky sanctions to fight climate change more aggressively, Reuters has been told. Reuters US sources and officials. The plan represents a major shift in Washington’s …
Nov 18 (Reuters) – Litigation over climate change has more than doubled in the past seven years globally, according to a June report from the London School of Economics, and is reaching beyond traditionally polluting industries such as production of fossil fuels. At the COP27 climate talks in Egypt, UN experts warned last week that …
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NAPERVILLE, Illinois, Nov 17 (Reuters) – China has been sporadic in the U.S. soybean market lately, although its buying last week was surprisingly large and likely much needed as supplies of beans from the main importer have become scarce . However, China’s pork industry, the world’s largest, could be on tough ground, as evidenced by …
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November 17 (Reuters) – Criss-crossing the subtropical seas that lapped the coasts of the archipelago that made up Europe 83 million years ago, was one of the largest turtles on record, a reptile the size of a small car – a Mini Cooper to be precise – that braved treacherous waters. Researchers on Thursday described …
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Nov 15 (Reuters) – Ground crews at Kennedy Space Center prepared on Tuesday for a third test launch of NASA’s massive next-generation moon rocket, the first flight of NASA’s Artemis lunar program the American space agency, 50 years after the last Apollo lunar mission. The 32-story Space Launch System (SLS) rocket was …
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HURON, California, Nov 15 (Reuters) – Land along Arroyo Pasajero Creek, midway between Sacramento and Los Angeles, is too dry for cropping in some years and dangerously flooded in others. Amid wet and dry cycles – two phenomena exacerbated by climate change – a coalition of local farmers and the nearby city of Huron are …
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