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Climate and environment
Oil project near Amazon River mouth blocked by Brazil’s environment agency
RIO DE JANEIRO ((DailyNews)) — Brazil’s environmental regulator refused on Wednesday to grant a license for a controversial offshore oil drilling project near...
Biden administration invests in carbon capture, upping pressure on industry to show results
The Biden administration on Wednesday announced $251 million for carbon capture and storage projects in seven states, aiming to reducing reduce planet-warming pollution...
Warming-stoked tides eating huge holes in Greenland glacier
Daily tides stoked with increasingly warmer water ate a hole taller than the Washington Monument at the bottom of one of Greenland’s major...
‘Mojave Max’ tortoise emerges in Vegas; latest since 2000
LAS VEGAS ((DailyNews)) — A desert tortoise that is the focus of schoolchild predictions and local lore about the start of spring has...
Powerful Cyclone Ilsa lashes Australia’s northwest coast
CANBERRA, Australia ((DailyNews)) — Australia’s most powerful tropical cyclone in eight years lashed its northwest coast with winds gusting to an apparent record...
Australia’s most powerful cyclone in 8 years to cross coast
CANBERRA, Australia ((DailyNews)) — A tropical cyclone nearing Australia is forecast to be the most powerful storm in eight years to hit the...
New India-born World Bank chief: Real change or rebranding?
BENGALURU, India ((DailyNews)) — The incoming president of the World Bank was born in India and forged his early business success there, a...
As tiger count grows, India’s Indigenous demand land rights
BENGALURU, India ((DailyNews)) — Just hours away from several of India’s major tiger reserves in the southern city of Mysuru, Prime Minister Narendra...
In a first, EPA survey puts a number on lead pipes around US
Some 9.2 million lead pipes carry water into homes across the U.S., with more in Florida than any other state, according to a...