Environment (225)
Wednesday, 23 March 2016 22:24
U.S., Argentina take steps to tackle climate change
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BUENOS AIRES U.S. President Barack Obama and Argentina's President Mauricio Macri agreed on Wednesday to take joint steps to fight climate change including working to cut carbon emissions from air flights and integrating solar and wind power into electricity grids.
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Wednesday, 23 March 2016 22:24
Blizzard closes Denver airport, 1,200 flights canceled
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A blizzard shut down Denver International Airport on Wednesday, canceling 1,200 flights and stranding travelers after the storm briefly knocked out power and made takeoffs and landings unsafe, airport officials said.
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Wednesday, 23 March 2016 22:24
Man nested in Seattle's landmark giant sequoia tree, draws coos, boos
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A man who nested in a giant sequoia tree in downtown Seattle, drew a flock of Twitter comments, with some cooing over #ManInTree and others condemning him for damaging the 80-foot-tall (24-meter-tall) city landmark before coming down on Wednesday.
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Wednesday, 23 March 2016 22:24
Activist who freed minks sentenced under rarely used U.S. terrorism law
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CHICAGO A California animal rights activist who freed 2,000 minks from an Illinois fur farm in 2013 was sentenced on Wednesday to house arrest and ordered to pay $200,000 to the farm's owners, prosecutors said.
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Wednesday, 23 March 2016 22:24
Exxon Mobil must allow climate change vote: SEC
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has ruled Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N ) must include a climate change resolution on its annual shareholder proxy, a defeat for the world's largest publicly traded oil producer, which had argued it already provides adequate carbon disclosures.
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Wednesday, 23 March 2016 22:24
U.S. Navy tug found off California 95 years after going missing
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WASHINGTON A U.S. Navy tug missing since 1921 has been discovered sunk off San Francisco, officials said on Wednesday, solving a nearly century-old maritime mystery.
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Wednesday, 23 March 2016 22:24
Giant arch to block Chernobyl radiation for next 100 years
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CHERNOBYL, Ukraine In the middle of a vast exclusion zone in northern Ukraine, the world's largest land-based moving structure has been built to prevent deadly radiation spewing from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site for the next 100 years.
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Wednesday, 23 March 2016 10:24
World Bank approves $500 million loan for Beijing clean-air projects
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SHANGHAI The World Bank has approved a $500 million loan to China to support financing of projects to help control air pollution in and around Beijing.
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Wednesday, 23 March 2016 10:24
Zimbabwean 'wizard' bewitches a bumper crop amid drought
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GAVU, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Among his neighbors, Phillip Tshuma, 67, is considered a wizard who commands the rains with the help of goblins. How else could he grow a bumper crop of ripening maize, sorghum, millet and peanuts in a season when many farmers in Zimbabwe have written off their crops?
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Five bald eagles have died in Delaware, state officials said on Tuesday, weeks after 13 of the U.S. national birds were determined to have been killed by humans in neighboring Maryland.
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