[ad_1] HOUSTON (Reuters) – Authorities lifted an evacuation order for the area surrounding a once-burning chemical plant and a major fuel pipeline reopened on Monday in signs that Texas was edging toward recovery from the…

[ad_1] SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s environment ministry warned that unfavorable weather could raise the risks of smog over autumn and winter, and it vowed to improve its emergency response times to ensure 2017 air quality…

[ad_1] LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A smattering of rain and easing temperatures helped more than a thousand firefighters battling the largest wildfire in Los Angeles history gain the upper hand on the blaze on Sunday,…

[ad_1] HOUSTON (Reuters) – Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Sunday estimated damage from Hurricane Harvey at $150 billion to $180 billion, calling it more costly than epic hurricanes Katrina or Sandy and fueling a debate…

[ad_1] LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A wildfire on the northern edge of Los Angeles rapidly grew on Saturday into what the mayor called the largest blaze in the city’s history, prompting the evacuation of hundreds…

[ad_1] MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Lidia’s death toll rose to at least seven people, including two children, as the storm doused various states in Mexico with heavy rain on Saturday and left a…

[ad_1] HOUSTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump visited a relief center in Houston on Saturday to meet with victims of Harvey, the catastrophic storm that triggered severe flooding in Texas and presented his young administration…

[ad_1] (Reuters) – California Governor Jerry Brown on Friday issued an emergency declaration for a wildfire burning in the northern part of the state, the same day the man accused of starting the blaze was…

[ad_1] ORANGE, Texas/HOUSTON (Reuters) – Rescuers searched painstakingly through flooded neighborhoods across southeastern Texas on Friday for people stranded by Hurricane Harvey’s deluge as President Donald Trump asked Congress for $7.85 billion in federal disaster…

[ad_1] ORANGE, Texas/HOUSTON (Reuters) – A week after Hurricane Harvey came ashore in Texas, rescuers pressed their marathon search for survivors on Friday in large pockets of land that remained flooded by one of the…

[ad_1] SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s parliament passed a new nuclear safety law on Friday aimed at improving regulation in the nuclear power sector as new projects are built across the country. Officials say the law…

[ad_1] DAUDHAN, India (Reuters) – After years of foot-dragging India will begin work in around a month on an $87 billion scheme to connect some of the country’s biggest rivers, government sources say, as Prime…

[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic state officials blasted the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday for telling governors in what they describe as a “legally incorrect” letter in March that they do not need to…

[ad_1] (Reuters) – Two explosions were reported on Thursday at the flood-hit Arkema SA (AKE.PA) chemical plant in Crosby, Texas, and a sheriff’s deputy was taken to a hospital after inhaling chemicals, the company said.…

[ad_1] MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Lidia formed in the Pacific Ocean some 180 miles (290 kilometers) southeast of the tip of Mexico’s Baja California state, threatening to become a hurricane in coming days,…

[ad_1] NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on Wednesday it has expanded fuel waivers for gasoline in response to requests from states to minimize potential supply shortages from Tropical Storm…

[ad_1] ADEN (Reuters) – At least 18 people have been killed in southern Yemen in flooding caused by heavy rains, the government-run news agency Saba reported on Wednesday. Monsoon rains on Tuesday night flooded the…

[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday rejected a contention by scientists that the historic rainfall from Tropical Storm Harvey was linked to climate change, calling it “an attempt to politicize an…

[ad_1] HOUSTON (Reuters) – Record rains and flooding from Tropical Storm Harvey triggered more oil refining outages in Texas on Tuesday, bringing the total offline to more than 16 percent of overall U.S. capacity as…

[ad_1] QUITO (Reuters) – An Ecuadorean judge has jailed 20 Chinese fishermen for up to four years for illegally fishing off the Galapagos Islands, where they were caught with 6,600 sharks. The Chinese-flagged ship Fu…

[ad_1] NEW YORK (Reuters) – Veridium Labs, an environmental technology startup headquartered in Hong Kong, said on Monday it hopes to raise $150 million in October by selling two types of tokens backed by forest…

[ad_1] NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenyans producing, selling or even using plastic bags will risk imprisonment of up to four years or fines of $40,000 from Monday, as the world’s toughest law aimed at reducing plastic…

[ad_1] BEIJING (Reuters) – A landslide caused part of a mountain to collapse on to a remote township in China’s remote southwest on Monday, state media said, killing at least two people with 25 missing.…

[ad_1] HOUSTON, Texas (Reuters) – Emergency crews raced to pull people from cars and homes as flood waters rose across southeast Texas on Sunday, rescuing more than 1,000 people in the Houston area as Tropical…

[ad_1] ROCKPORT, Texas (Reuters) – A second person was killed on Saturday as Harvey, the most powerful storm to hit Texas in more than 50 years, roared inland, knocking out power to more than 230,000…

[ad_1] HONG KONG (Reuters) – Tropical storm Pakhar brought strong winds and heavy rain to Hong Kong and Macau on Sunday, just four days after one of the strongest typhoons on record, Hato, caused serious…

[ad_1] ZURICH (Reuters) – Swiss police said on Saturday they were expecting more landslides in the remote valley near the Italian border where eight people went missing in a massive rock fall this week. Rescuers…

[ad_1] ZURICH (Reuters) – A fresh mudslide swept into a remote mountain town in eastern Switzerland on Friday where an earlier huge landslip this week dumped rock, rubble and mud meters high and left eight…

[ad_1] BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s government defended the opening of a vast Amazon area to mining on Friday after criticism from lawmakers, environmental groups and supermodel Gisele Bundchen that it threatened the world’s largest rainforest.…

[ad_1] CHICAGO (Reuters) – An Arkansas task force has advised the state to bar sprayings after April 15 next year of agricultural herbicides containing the chemical dicamba, which has been linked to crop damage across…