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Crowds in Mayotte vent frustration with cyclone response as Macron tours devastation

MIRERENI, Mayotte (AP) — Crowds in Mayotte vented their frustration at French President Emmanuel Macron, with some booing, as he toured destruction wrought by the strongest cyclone to hit the French territory in nearly a century.

Dec 20, 2024 6:49 PM Read more >

Arizona agency takes action to regulate groundwater use in rural southeast

PHOENIX (AP) — It's necessary to regulate groundwater in the state’s rural southeast , allowing the designation of a controlled area to stop rapid depletion of the water through agricultural use, the Arizona Department of Water Resources announced Fr

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New damage delays I-40 reopening in North Carolina closed by Helene

WAYNESVILLE, N.C.

Dec 20, 2024 5:34 PM Read more >

Alberta announces future coal mining policy plan, industry consults

EDMONTON — The Alberta government has announced plans to ban new mountaintop removal and open-pit coal developments on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, but the new rules wouldn't apply to advanced projects like a contentious mine proposed f

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Arizona agency takes action to regulate groundwater use in rural southeast

PHOENIX (AP) — It's necessary to regulate groundwater in the state’s rural southeast , allowing the designation of a controlled area to stop rapid depletion of the water through agricultural use, the Arizona Department of Water Resources announced Fr

Dec 20, 2024 1:59 PM Read more >

Canadian carbon removal company scores US$40M grant from fund backed by Bill Gates

A Canadian company that has received a US$40-million grant from Bill Gates' climate solutions venture firm says its Alberta test site will be removing carbon directly from the atmosphere as early as this spring.

Dec 20, 2024 1:53 PM Read more >

Florida agriculture hit with $190M losses from Hurricane Milton

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.

Dec 20, 2024 1:47 PM Read more >

Amazon Indigenous community wins latest stage of court battle for lost territory

An Indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon is celebrating a legal victory in the latest stage of its attempt to take back claimed ancestral rainforests .

Dec 20, 2024 1:17 PM Read more >

California regulators vote to delay closure of gas storage facility, site of worst US methane leak

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California regulators have approved a controversial proposal to delay the closure of the Aliso Canyon Natural Gas Facility, the site of the nation’s largest known methane leak , which forced thousands of families from their Los Ang

Dec 20, 2024 11:30 AM Read more >

Florida agriculture hit with $190M losses from Hurricane Milton

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.

Dec 20, 2024 11:03 AM Read more >