Category Archives: Environment
North Dakota sues feds over oil, gas lease sale suspension
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota has sued the Biden administration over its suspension of new oil and gas leases on federal land and water, saying the move will cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue.
Ted Turner to give land to nonprofit but keep paying taxes
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Media mogul and billionaire bison rancher Ted Turner is donating an 80,000-acre ranch he owns in western Nebraska to his own nonprofit agriculture ecosystem research institute and says he might do the same with four other
Debate over eating meat gets heated in Spanish politics
MADRID (AP) — The amount of meat that Spaniards eat has rattled the unity of Spain's governing coalition. Members of Prime
UN nuclear agency to help monitor Fukushima water release
BERLIN (AP) — The United Nations' nuclear watchdog said it reached an agreement with Japan Thursday on helping monitor and review the release of treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima plant into the Pacific Ocean.
Europe’s central bank intensifies focus on climate change
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank has adopted a new approach to managing the economy that would tolerate transitory periods of consumer inflation moderately above its 2% goal — and take greater account of climate change in its
One of China’s wandering elephants is returned to reserve
BEIJING (AP) — One member of a group of elephants that left a nature reserve and wandered close to cities in China's southwest has been tranquilized and returned to the reserve after leaving the herd.
EU fines German car makers $1B over emission collusion
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union handed down $1 billion in fines to major German car manufacturers Thursday, saying they colluded to limit the development and rollout of car emission-control systems.
2.1 million square kilometres covered: Nunavut reveals updated land-use proposal
IQALUIT, Nunavut — The Nunavut Planning Commission released its updated land-use proposal Thursday after years of consultation and earlier drafts. The plan, which covers 2.1 million square kilometres of land and water, determines which parts of the t...
German Green contender acknowledges mistake in book flap
BERLIN (AP) — The Green party candidate to succeed German Chancellor Angela Merkel has acknowledged making a mistake in a flap over allegations that she copied from others in a new book, saying that it would have been better to
Egypt urges UN to back call for binding deal on Ethiopia dam
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Egypt’s foreign minister said Wednesday he will urge the U.N. Security Council to require Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia to negotiate a binding agreement within six months on the contentious issue of water availability from the dam
