[ad_1] ATHENS (Reuters) – Firefighters battled a wildfire northeast of the Greek capital for a third day on Tuesday, trying to prevent a blaze that scorched thousands of hectares of pine forest from spreading further.…

[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Tuesday “establishing discipline and accountability in the environmental review and permitting process for infrastructure projects,” the White House said in a statement…

[ad_1] VANCOUVER (Reuters) – British Columbian plans to stop all grizzly bear trophy hunting throughout the western Canadian province as of Nov. 30, a government minister said on Monday. Hunting for meat would be allowed…

[ad_1] FREETOWN (Reuters) – By Christo Johnson More than 200 people were killed when a mudslide struck the outskirts of Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown on Monday, sweeping away homes. The Red Cross said at least…

[ad_1] KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Elephants helped rescue hundreds of tourists from a flooded jungle safari park in Nepal, officials said on Monday, as the death toll from flash floods and landslides after four days of…

[ad_1] Athens (Reuters) – A wildfire close to a village near Athens has damaged dozens of houses and caused people to flee their homes, officials said on Monday. More than 150 firefighters with 50 fire…

[ad_1] KUWAIT (Reuters) – Kuwait will finish cleaning up a crude oil spill in the country’s southern waters in the Gulf this week, a Kuwaiti newspaper report said on Sunday, quoting the country’s oil minister.…

[ad_1] (Reuters) – Kuwaiti authorities on Saturday were working on containing and cleaning up a crude oil spill in the country’s southern waters in the Gulf, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) said in a statement. KPC…

[ad_1] FRANKFURT (Reuters) – A Green party German state premier has defended the diesel technology at the center of a crisis in the country’s car industry, saying it was a necessary interim solution on the…

[ad_1] KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains have left more than 30 people dead in Nepal in the past 24 hours, authorities said on Saturday. Ten more people were missing…

[ad_1] BEIJING (Reuters) – Thunderstorms lashed Beijing on Saturday, disrupting hundreds of flights at one of the world’s largest airports, while authorities warned that rain and wind could cause landslides in the area where a…

[ad_1] (Reuters) – A damaged turbine that contributed to flooding in New Orleans should be working again later on Friday, but more back-up power is needed and dozens of extra generators are being brought in…

[ad_1] LONDON/OSLO (Reuters) – Four gigantic Norwegian-made plastic pipes up to 480 meters (1575 ft) long were discovered washed up on the English coast after a collision with a container ship in the North Sea,…

[ad_1] HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong may reopen some of its 13 beaches closed since last Sunday following a palm oil spill, after authorities collected more than 150 tonnes of acrid-smelling clumps in one…

[ad_1] PUERTO ORDAZ/CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) – Venezuelan homemaker Carmen Rondon lives in the country with the world’s largest oil reserves, but has spent weeks cooking with firewood due to a chronic shortage of home cooking…

[ad_1] BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany has ordered its road transport watchdog to look at whether Ford’s (F.N) mid-sized Mondeo model contains an illegal emissions cheating device, business weekly WirtschaftsWoche reported on Thursday, citing the transport…

[ad_1] BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s push for blue skies is roiling supplies and boosting prices of key raw materials from soymeal to ferroalloys as the government ramps up smog checks and forces some factories in…

[ad_1] MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Franklin, upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane from a tropical storm, is expected to hit eastern Mexico’s key oil-producing Gulf state of Veracruz on Wednesday evening or early Thursday morning,…

[ad_1] JIUZHAIGOU, China (Reuters) – A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck a remote, mountainous part of China’s southwestern province of Sichuan, killing 19 people, including eight tourists, and injuring 247, the provincial government and official media said…

[ad_1] NEW YORK (Reuters) – As the U.S. growing season entered its peak this summer, farmers began posting startling pictures on social media: fields of beans, peach orchards and vegetable gardens withering away. The photographs…

[ad_1] HOUSTON (Reuters) – Houston-area oil refineries were unaffected by heavy rains that caused flooding across wide areas of the city overnight, the companies and industry sources said on Tuesday. Rainfall totals over 7 inches…

[ad_1] EINDHOVEN, Netherlands (Reuters) – What’s made of sugar, can carry four people and travel at 50 miles (80 km) per hour? A biodegradable car, whose inventors say could be the next step in environmentally…

[ad_1] MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Franklin churned toward the tourist hubs along Mexico’s Caribbean coast on Monday, and is expected to strike the east coast of the Yucatan Peninsula just south of major…

[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of the Interior said on Monday it has rescinded an Obama-era rule that reformed how energy companies value sales of oil, gas and coal extracted from federal and…

[ad_1] VIENNA (Reuters) – Twin panda cubs born and raised at Vienna Zoo celebrated their first birthday very differently on Monday: one gorged on snacks in front of a crowd of admirers while the other…

[ad_1] TOKYO (Reuters) – A weakening Typhoon Noru churned closer to central Japan on Monday, pounding parts of the country with torrential rain, but it had lost much of the strength that at one point…

[ad_1] WEAVERVILLE, Calif. (Reuters) – Pollution from illegal marijuana farms deep in California’s national forests is far worse than previously thought, and has turned thousands of acres into waste dumps so toxic that simply touching…

[ad_1] TOKYO (Reuters) – A slow-moving but weakening Typhoon Noru, at one point the strongest storm in the world this year, approached the main islands of Japan on Sunday, leaving two people dead and prompting…

[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s government launched a review on how best to reduce long-term energy bills for households and business on Sunday, prompted in part by concern that high electricity costs could damage industrial…

[ad_1] ATHENS (Reuters) – A forest fire was raging on the Greek island of Kythera on Saturday, fanned by strong winds and prompting the evacuation of dozens of homes. A state of emergency was declared…