[ad_1] FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Germany is considering “effective measures” to cut pollution from diesel engines, the transport ministry said on Saturday, reacting to a media report saying planned goals were unambitious. German magazine Der Spiegel…

[ad_1] (Reuters) – A sinkhole near a lake north of Tampa that swallowed two homes Friday morning appeared to have stabilized by the early evening, but may expand again, especially if it rains, authorities said.…

[ad_1] SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s government has sent Congress a bill to shrink the boundaries of a national forest in the Amazonian state of Pará, according a statement from the Environment Ministry on Friday,…

[ad_1] HOUSTON (Reuters) – An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.2 on Friday struck Stroud, Oklahoma, about 20 miles (32.2 km) from the key oil storage hub in Cushing, Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Geological Survey…

[ad_1] ROME/MADRID (Reuters) – Italian durum wheat and dairy farmer Attilio Tocchi saw warning signs during the winter of the dramatic drought to come at his holding a mile away from the Tuscan coast. “When…

[ad_1] GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) – Floods in India’s northeast have killed at least 83 people and led to the death of three rare one-horned rhinoceros at a national park that has the world’s largest concentration…

[ad_1] PARIS (Reuters) – President Donald Trump held the door open to a reversal of his decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord on Thursday, but did not say what…

[ad_1] THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Angry Dutch residents living near the huge Groningen gas field demanded a total halt to production, accusing oil companies of causing house-damaging earth tremors and the government of lying at…

[ad_1] LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Crews battled dozens of wildfires raging across California on Wednesday, gaining ground on several of the more destructive blazes as forecasters warned that hot, dry, tinderbox conditions would persist across…

[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A coalition of 14 conservative groups urged U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday to support an amendment to the House of Representatives’ annual defense bill that would prevent the Pentagon from implementing climate-change…

[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – One of the biggest icebergs on record has broken away from Antarctica, scientists said on Wednesday, creating an extra hazard for ships around the continent as it breaks up. The one…

[ad_1] DETROIT (Reuters) – Chinese automakers are on track to produce 49 of the 103 new electric car models that will be launched globally by 2020, as part of China’s push to accelerate the switch…

[ad_1] By Marcelo Teixeira | SAO PAULO SAO PAULO Residents of villages along a key highway for grains exports in Brazil’s northern Para state continued to stage protests on Tuesday blocking the flow of goods…

[ad_1] More than 6,000 firefighters were battling at least 15 large wildfires across California on Tuesday, prompting evacuations as high temperatures and dried out vegetation fueled dozens of blazes in the Western United States, fire…

[ad_1] JOHANNESBURG Wildlife rangers were searching on Monday for four lions which escaped from South Africa’s main national park, officials said. The male lions escaped from the Kruger National Park, a main tourist attraction, on…

[ad_1] By Ethan Lou | CALGARY, Alberta CALGARY, Alberta Rapidly spreading wildfires in British Columbia disrupted operations at two mining companies and damaged public utilities on Monday as 14,000 people were forced from their homes…

[ad_1] PARIS A storm on Sunday night lashed Paris with the highest rainfall ever recorded in the French capital, while other areas of France’s centre-west saw as much rain as would normally fall in the…

[ad_1] PARIS France may close as many as 17 reactors by 2025 as it seeks to reduce the share of nuclear power in its electricity mix, Environment Minister Nicolas Hulot said on Monday. Speaking on…

[ad_1] RIYADH Dubai is planning to build a new 30 billion dirham ($8.17 billion) deep-tunnel sewage system to be completed in 2025, the emirate said in a statement carried by state news agency WAM on…

[ad_1] By David Stanway | CHANGZHOU, China CHANGZHOU, China Global sewage and water treatment firms are eyeing opportunities in an unsavory place: a growing pile of waste in China, the world’s most populous nation. The…

[ad_1] By Ethan Lou | CALGARY, Alberta CALGARY, Alberta Canadian lender Desjardins is considering no longer funding energy pipelines, a spokesman said on Saturday, citing concerns about the impact such projects may have on the…

[ad_1] HAMBURG French President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday he had not given up on trying to get U.S. counterpart Donald Trump to change his mind about withdrawing the United States from the Paris climate…

[ad_1] Western Canada’s British Columbia declared its first state of emergency in 14 years late on Friday as dozens of wildfires spread throughout the rural interior of the province, forcing thousands to evacuate their homes.…

[ad_1] BEIJING Tibetan rights groups have criticized a U.N. cultural organization’s decision to extend world heritage status to an extensive plateau area in a heavily Tibetan area, saying it reinforces Chinese control in the region.…

[ad_1] Arkansas will temporarily ban the use and sale of the weed killer dicamba after a rise in complaints that the agricultural chemical is drifting into neighboring fields and damaging crops, the state’s agriculture department…

[ad_1] By Noah Barkin and Andreas Rinke | HAMBURG HAMBURG World leaders ratcheted up pressure on U.S. President Donald Trump to compromise on climate and trade as a Group of 20 summit got underway in…

[ad_1] By Joseph Nasr and Andreas Rinke | HAMBURG HAMBURG Dozens of police were injured in clashes with protesters before a G20 summit in Hamburg on Thursday, tarnishing the start of a meeting Chancellor Angela…

[ad_1] By Nia Williams | CALGARY, Alberta CALGARY, Alberta Alberta regulators on Thursday charged Nexen Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of China’s CNOOC Ltd, for a pipeline spill in July 2015 at the company’s Long…

[ad_1] By Bate Felix and Simon Carraud | PARIS PARIS France aims to end the sale of gasoline and diesel vehicles by 2040 and become carbon neutral 10 years later, Ecology Minister Nicolas Hulot said…

[ad_1] BANGKOK Hundreds of elephants used in Asia’s tourism industry are kept in “severely cruel” conditions, animal welfare group World Animal Protection said on Thursday. Animal tourism in Asia has drawn increased scrutiny over the…