Tag: Environment
Cubs place Arrieta on 10-day IL with abrasion on right thumb
<p>CHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs placed former NL Cy Young Award winner Jake Arrieta on the 10-day injured list on Tuesday because of an...
Researchers: Climate pledges see world closing on Paris goal
BERLIN — Recent pledges by the United States and other nations could help cap global warming at 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) by the...
Republicans ask why White House removed climate scientist
<p>WASHINGTON — Two House Republicans are asking the White House for documents to explain why a scientist appointed by the Trump administration was removed...
Mayor: Sewage lagoon embankment seeping, residents warned
SMITHLAND, Ky. — A sewage lagoon above a small western Kentucky city is seeping through its embankment and is likely to fail, prompting the...
Group asks US to cut funding to Idaho over wolf-killing bill
<p>BOISE, Idaho — A conservation group is asking the U.S. government to cut off millions of dollars to Idaho that is used to improve...
America’s new normal: A degree hotter than two decades ago
America’s new normal temperature is a degree hotter than it was just two decades ago.
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Thunberg: ‘We will not accept’ giving up on limiting warming
<p>COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg says those in power may “have given up” on the 2015 landmark Paris climate deal to...
Cubs place Arrieta on 10-day IL with abrasion on right thumb
CHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs placed former NL Cy Young Award winner Jake Arrieta on the 10-day injured list on Tuesday because of an...
Republicans ask why White House removed climate scientist
WASHINGTON — Two House Republicans are asking the White House for documents to explain why a scientist appointed by the Trump administration was removed...
Oil pipeline builder agrees to halt eminent domain lawsuits
<p>MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A company seeking to build a disputed oil pipeline over an aquifer that provides drinking water to 1 million people agreed...