Tag: environment
Americans’ household debt surged in recent years amid challenging consumer environment
Former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers Kevin Hassett reacts to former President Trump outlining his economic agenda in North Carolina on Kudlow. The [Read More…]
US Supreme Court weakens federal regulators in boost for business
The Supreme Court has upended a 40-year-old decision that made it easier for the United States federal government to regulate the environment, public health, workplace [Read More…]
Do elephants really call to each other by name?
In a remarkable experiment of artificial intelligence meets elephants, researchers have successfully demonstrated how the giant mammals call to each other using individual names. According [Read More…]
Humpback Whale Rescued Near Russia’s Murmansk Region – The Moscow Times
A rescue team has freed a humpback whale from a fishing net in the Barents Sea north of Russia’s Murmansk region, the state environmental watchdog Rosprirodnadzor said [Read More…]
Moscow’s Relentless Urban Beautification Takes Aim at Historic Kolomenskoye Park – The Moscow Times
MOSCOW — On a hot early summer afternoon, city dwellers take refuge in the shade of the capital’s historic Kolomenskoye Museum-Reserve, playing sports, having picnics [Read More…]
‘The future is dark’: Inside the Brazilian businesses shattered by floods
Rambo’s store is one of around 45,000 businesses in the state capital that have been impacted by these devastating floods. Porto Alegre’s Chamber of Store [Read More…]
‘Fighting for 40 years’: The tiny Texas community facing down Big Industry
Corpus Christi, Texas, US – “It’s a beautiful bay, and it was even more beautiful in the beginning,” says 72-year-old Encarnacion “Chon” Serna, a retired [Read More…]
Russia Says Its Forests Can Absorb Its Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Climate Change and Poor Forestry Standards Make This Unlikely. – The Moscow Times
As the climate crisis intensifies, Russia is pinning its hopes on its vast forests to make up for its carbon emissions — the world’s fourth-highest [Read More…]
‘A continuous curtain of fire’: Lava spurts from Iceland volcano
The fifth eruption since December is described by experts as the most powerful yet. Lava continues to spurt from a volcano in southwestern Iceland after [Read More…]
They Bought Premium Housing Outside Moscow. They Still Can’t Escape Russia’s Decaying Infrastructure. – The Moscow Times
KHIMKI, Moscow region — On a sunny May afternoon, a young man named Yevgeny sits on a bench in a courtyard, watching his child run [Read More…]
Their Ancestral Traditions Under Threat, a Village in Russia’s Far East Stands Up to Gold-Mining Giant – The Moscow Times
A small Indigenous community in Russia’s Far East republic of Sakha (Yakutia) is challenging a gold-mining giant owned by Russian magnate Alexei Mordashov in what [Read More…]
Rescuers search rubble after over 300 buried in Papua New Guinea landslide
Landslide blocked highway access to affected communities making helicopters the easiest way to reach the disaster zone. Rescue teams have arrived at the site of [Read More…]
In Russia’s Coal-Mining Heartland, Opponents of Plan to Revive a Soviet Hydropower Plant Are Being Silenced – The Moscow Times
Like other infrastructure projects in the U.S.S.R., the Krapivinskaya hydropower plant was born at a time when the Soviets dreamt of bending the natural world [Read More…]
Are seed-sowing drones the answer to global deforestation?
Santa Cruz Cabralia, Bahia, Brazil – With a loud whir, the drone takes flight. Minutes later, the humming sound gives way to a distinctive rattling [Read More…]
Rainfall set to help crews battling wildfire near Canada’s Fort McMurray
Authorities say blaze in heart of Canadian tar sands region will be ‘subdued’ due to expected rain and cloud cover. Cloud cover and rainfall over [Read More…]
A Favored Pastime of Russia’s Elites, Trophy Hunting Scourges Country’s Rare Species – The Moscow Times
VIP hunters including senior Russian officials and wealthy businessmen appear increasingly keen to target protected animals and areas across the country. These efforts, when combined [Read More…]
Canada wildfires spur evacuation orders, warnings: What you need to know
Thousands of people have been evacuated as enormous, out-of-control wildfires scorch large swaths of territory in western Canada, with the country grappling with what could [Read More…]
Evacuation orders issued as wildfire grows near Canada’s Alberta oil patch
Authorities say firefighters are facing a ‘challenging day’ as a huge blaze nears Fort McMurray in the Alberta tar sands. Authorities in the Canadian province [Read More…]
Guardians of the glaciers – life alongside Pakistan’s vanishing ice
Skardu, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan – As we make our way towards Pakistan’s first organic village, an intense one-hour trek along the rugged, steep and unfenced mountainside [Read More…]
Photos: Kenya sanctuaries toil to save birds of prey from extinction
Simon Thomsett tentatively removes a pink bandage from the wing of an injured bateleur, a short-tailed eagle from the African savannah, where birds of prey [Read More…]
