Category Archives: Environment
Hydrogen-powered vehicles: A realistic path to clean energy?
CANTON, Ohio (AP) — Each morning at a transit facility in Canton, Ohio, more than a dozen buses pull up to a fueling station before fanning out to their routes in this city south of Cleveland.
Death toll from floods in northern Turkey reaches 38
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The death toll from floods and mudslides in northern Turkey rose to at least 38 on Friday, officials said, as emergency crews searched collapsed buildings, swamped homes, and submerged basements for more victims and survivors. An
Officials: Northwest heat may have killed 1; ER visits spike
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Extreme heat may be behind a death in Portland, Oregon, this week, and emergency room visits for heat-related illness rose sharply as sweltering temperatures gripped the normally temperate Pacific Northwest for the second time thi...
Forest Service maxed out as wildfires break across US West
WESTWOOD, Calif. (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service said Friday it's operating in crisis mode, fully deploying firefighters and maxing out its support system as wildfires continue to break out across the U.S. West, threatening thousands of homes and entire...
Northwest heat wave: Volunteers get water to the vulnerable
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Volunteers scrambled to hand out water, portable fans, popsicles and information about cooling shelters Thursday to homeless people living in isolated encampments on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon, as the Pacific Northwest swea...
‘Green Garbage’ ads trashed by German election rivals
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's governing parties made an unusual show of solidarity with their main challengers Thursday by denouncing an advertising campaign targeting the environmentalist Greens.
Greek wildfires a major ecological catastrophe, PM says
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday described the devastating wildfires that burned across the country for more than a week as the greatest ecological catastrophe Greece had seen in decades.
Algeria battles wildfires with 2 French firefighter planes
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Wildfires in Algeria that already have killed at least 69 people burned through the mountainous Berber region as the North African country contended Thursday with a heat wave like the ones fueling fires in Southern
Algeria battles wildfires with 2 French firefighter planes
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Wildfires in Algeria that already have killed at least 69 people burned through the mountainous Berber region as the North African country contended Thursday with a heat wave like the ones fueling fires in Southern
Algeria battles wildfires with 2 French firefighter planes
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Wildfires in Algeria that already have killed at least 69 people burned through the mountainous Berber region as the North African country contended Thursday with a heat wave like the ones fueling fires in Southern
