Environment
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Mexicans pray as hope fades for quake victims, toll hits 319
[ad_1] MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexicans packed churches on Sunday to pray for the victims of the country’s deadliest quake in 32 years as rescue teams searched against the odds for any survivors trapped under…
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Puerto Rico's fragile economy dealt new blow by Maria
[ad_1] PUERTO RICO/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Chan Lo is racing against the clock to save thousands of dollars of supplies at his sushi restaurant in San Juan’s Condado beachfront community. He has roughly $16,000-worth of…
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Latest deadly quake, volcanic ash spread alarm in Mexico
[ad_1] MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A magnitude 6.2 earthquake that shook Mexico on Saturday was blamed for five deaths, spreading fear among a population reeling from multiple natural disasters and interrupting the search for survivors…
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Latest Mexico quake spreads alarm, some rescue efforts suspended
[ad_1] MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A magnitude 6.2 earthquake that shook southern Mexico on Saturday spread fear in the capital and frustrated rescuers, some of whom were forced to suspend the search for survivors of…
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In Mexico, frantic rescuers keep up search for quake survivors
[ad_1] MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – An army of trained rescuers and scores of volunteers carefully combed through the rubble of Mexico’s most deadly earthquake in decades on Saturday, hoping against diminishing odds to pull more…
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Tempers fray as search for survivors winds down after Mexico quake
[ad_1] MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Tempers frayed in Mexico City on Friday as the search for survivors amidst twisted rubble of collapsed buildings began to wind down three days after the country’s most deadly earthquake…
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Hurricane Maria lashes Turks and Caicos, fresh flooding in Puerto Rico
[ad_1] SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) – Hurricane Maria lashed the Turks and Caicos Islands on Friday and was blamed for fresh flooding on Puerto Rico, where it had already destroyed homes and knocked out…
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Hurricane Maria churns toward Turks and Caicos and leaves 32 dead
[ad_1] SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) – Hurricane Maria churned toward the Turks and Caicos on Friday after lashing Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands with winds and rain that destroyed homes, flooded streets, crippled…
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Hurricane Maria devastates Puerto Rico, kills at least 32 in Caribbean
[ad_1] SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) – Hurricane Maria destroyed buildings and knocked out power across Puerto Rico before flooding parts of the Dominican Republic and then regaining some of its strength as it approached…
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Mexico rescuers in race to find trapped survivors 48 hours after quake
[ad_1] MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Rescuers toiled on Thursday to extract survivors, including Taiwanese workers, from collapsed buildings after Mexico’s deadliest earthquake in 32 years, but the Navy said no children were now trapped at…
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Greenpeace boards ship in bid to stop UK-bound "toxic" VW diesel cars
[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – Greenpeace activists boarded a ship arriving in Britain on Thursday to stop a consignment of over 1,000 Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) cars from Germany whilst others sought to immobilize vehicles at a port…
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Hurricane Maria clobbers Puerto Rico, plunges island into darkness
[ad_1] SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) – Hurricane Maria, the strongest storm to strike Puerto Rico in nearly 90 years, carved a path of destruction through the U.S. territory on Wednesday, causing severe flooding and…
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Hurricane Maria brings destruction, heavy floods to Puerto Rico
[ad_1] SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) – Hurricane Maria rampaged across Puerto Rico on Wednesday as the strongest storm to hit the U.S. territory in nearly 90 years, bringing widespread flooding and knocking out power…
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Desperate night search in Mexico school, other ruins as quake deaths pass 200
[ad_1] MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Desperate rescue workers scrabbled through rubble in a floodlit search on Wednesday for dozens of children feared buried beneath a Mexico City school, one of hundreds of buildings wrecked by…
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Strong quake near Mexico City kills almost 150, rescuers dig through collapsed buildings
[ad_1] MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Rescue crews and ordinary citizens searched through rubble for survivors as night fell on Tuesday on battered cities in central Mexico, including the capital, where the death toll from a…
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Strong 7.1 quake hits Mexico, people trapped in collapsed buildings
[ad_1] MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit Mexico on Tuesday, collapsing buildings and trapping an unknown number of people. TV images showed a multi-story building in the capital with a middle floor…
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Hurricane Maria pummels Dominica, barrels toward U.S. Virgin Islands
[ad_1] PONCE, Puerto Rico (Reuters) – Hurricane Maria, the second major storm to hit the Caribbean this month, crept toward the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico on Tuesday after it ripped through the small…
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Hurricane Maria pummels small Caribbean island of Dominica as Category 5 storm
[ad_1] PONCE, Puerto Rico (Reuters) – Hurricane Maria, the second Category 5 storm to hit the Caribbean this month, plowed into the small island nation of Dominica on Monday with roof-ripping fury on a collision…
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Strengthening Hurricane Maria rages through eastern Caribbean
[ad_1] BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (Reuters) – A rapidly strengthening Hurricane Maria barreled towards the eastern Caribbean islands with 125 mile-per-hour (200 kph) winds on Monday, threatening the region with its second major storm this month. Officials…
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Kuwait tackles another offshore oil spill: state news agency
[ad_1] DUBAI (Reuters) – Major oil exporter Kuwait is dealing with another crude oil spill off its southern coast, state news agency KUNA said on Monday, the latest in a series of unexplained leaks in…
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Hurricane Maria seen strengthening into major hurricane in next two days
[ad_1] (Reuters) – A second powerful storm in as many weeks was bearing down on a string of battered Caribbean islands on Sunday, with forecasters saying Maria would strengthen rapidly into a major hurricane in…
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Battered Caribbean islands threatened by another powerful storm
[ad_1] (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Maria is likely to reach hurricane strength on Sunday, prompting U.S. weather forecasters to issue warnings and watches for a string of Caribbean islands, some of which were battered by…
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Chinese capital bans winter construction to improve air quality
[ad_1] BEIJING (Reuters) – Beijing will suspend construction of major public projects in the city this winter in an effort to improve the capital’s notorious air quality, official media said on Sunday, citing the municipal…
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Weaker Typhoon Talim disrupts transport in southwestern Japan
[ad_1] TOKYO (Reuters) – Southwestern parts of Japan faced flight cancellations, train disruptions and felled power lines on Sunday as Typhoon Talim, now a tropical storm, made landfall on the southern island of Kyushu and…
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Nations meet in Montreal to discuss progress on climate-change deal
[ad_1] MONTREAL (Reuters) – Officials from more than 30 nations that signed onto a 2015 landmark pact to fight climate change gathered in Montreal on Saturday, their first meeting since the United States last month…
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Protest seeks shutdown of Atlantic salmon farms in Washington state
[ad_1] (Reuters) – Activists in Washington state plan to launch a protest flotilla on Saturday in the Pacific Ocean’s Puget Sound over the accidental release of tens of thousands of farm-raised Atlantic salmon that they…
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Florida governor vows aggressive probe of Irma nursing home deaths
[ad_1] (In Sept. 13 item, updates to correct spelling of the last name of Michael Beason from Benson, in 19th paragraph and throughout) By Andrew Innerarity and Ricardo Ortiz HOLLYWOOD, Fla./SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters)…
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Typhoon tears across Vietnam, skirting key coffee region
[ad_1] HA TINH, Vietnam (Reuters) – A typhoon tore a destructive path across central Vietnam on Friday, flooding hundreds of thousands of homes, whipping off roofs and knocking out power in the country’s most powerful…
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Oil and chemical spills from Hurricane Harvey big, but dwarfed by Katrina
[ad_1] NEW YORK/BOSTON (Reuters) – More than 22,000 barrels of oil, refined fuels and chemicals spilled at sites across Texas in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, along with millions of cubic feet of natural gas…
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EPA to reconsider coal ash waste regulations for power plants
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday said it will reconsider a rule regulating coal ash waste from power plants in a win for utility industry groups that petitioned for changes.…