Environment

LONDON (Reuters) – Of all the sports at the Tokyo Olympics later this year none inhabit the frontline of climate change quite like surfing. FILE PHOTO: John John Florence of Hawaii surfs during the final of World Surf League’s (WSL) championship at Supertubo beach in Peniche, Portugal October 25, 2016. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante/File Photo Which is

FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sign is seen on the podium at EPA headquarters in Washington, U.S., July 11, 2018. REUTERS/Ting Shen/File Photo NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking White House guidance on the future of its controversial biofuel waiver program after a court ruling cast doubt

LISBON (Reuters) – The lush, green hills where Paulo Pires has for years brought sheep to graze above his picturesque Portuguese village may soon be transformed by the race to power electric vehicles. Demonstrators protest against lithium mines in downtown Lisbon, Portugal September 21, 2019. The banner reads “No to mine, Yes to life”. REUTERS/Rafael

FILE PHOTO: Tourists stand outside in Plaza Mayor of Madrid, Spain September 2, 2018. REUTERS/Javier Barbancho/ MADRID (Reuters) – Madrid has begun planning for a cull of almost all the city’s population of thousands of Kramer and Monk parrots, invasive species that the city council says are a nuisance to human neighbours and a threat

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican lawmakers on Wednesday proposed legislation setting a goal for the United States to plant a trillion trees by 2050 to fight global warming, a plan intended to address climate change by sucking carbon out of the air instead of by cutting emissions. FILE PHOTO: People plant trees on a sand mine

BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Shareholder activists focused on climate issues vowed to press proxy battles with JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) after getting a cold reception from the top Wall Street bank, even though Chief Executive Jamie Dimon has vowed to protect the environment. FILE PHOTO: Jamie Dimon, chairman & CEO of JP Morgan Chase

RUMA NATIONAL PARK, Kenya (Reuters) – The mighty rhinos living in a national park in Kenya face a new threat: microscopic, drug-resistant bacteria. Scientists behind a study in a recent issue of New York-based academic journal EcoHealth discovered that bacteria samples found in the endangered animals in Ruma National Park, a protected area on the

BUCHAN, Australia (Reuters) – Returning from a morning feeding his sheep, Jeff McCole, a 70-year-old farmer, paused to take in the bittersweet scene – a few droplets of rain falling onto the remains of his fire-ravaged home. Farmer Jeff McCole, 70, looks through the remains of his family home destroyed by bushfire during an interview

(Reuters) – Bayer AG has asked a California appeals court to overturn an $86 million verdict that found it was responsible for a couple’s cancer caused by its glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup. In a Friday night filing with the California First District Court of Appeal in San Francisco, the company said the jury’s verdict could

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australian authorities issued evacuation orders as heavy rain lashed Sydney and the east coast of the state of New South Wales (NSW) on Monday, bringing chaos to the country’s largest city while dousing bushfires that have raged since November. FILE PHOTO: A bicycle deliveryman braves strong wind and rain in Sydney, New

(Reuters) – An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 has struck 122 km (75 miles) south of Kokopo in Papua New Guinea, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said on Sunday. The quake was at a depth of about 31.3 km, according here to the USGS. Reporting by Mekhla Raina in Bengaluru; editing by Christian Schmollinger Our Standards:The

FILE PHOTO: A Lufthansa Airbus A380-800 aircraft lands at Frankfurt Airport in Frankfurt, Germany April 29, 2019. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski/File Photo FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German airline Lufthansa said that storm Sabine, which is expected to hit parts of Europe over the weekend with gale-force winds, will lead to flight cancellations and delays. “In particular, from Saturday

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department on Friday told four automakers it had closed an antitrust investigation into a voluntary agreement the companies reached with California on emissions without taking any action, three automakers and a source told Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Ford logo is pictured at the 2019 Frankfurt Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt,

WYTALIBA, Australia (Reuters) – Even as a fierce bushfire bore down on the rural Australian community of Wytaliba, Gary Wilson and his partner Julie Willis decided not to flee their timber home – they had a house full of orphaned baby kangaroos to protect. FILE PHOTO: An orphaned kangaroo joey that was rescued during the

LONDON (Reuters) – Oscar favourite Joaquin Phoenix stars as a medic battling to save a dying planet Earth in a film launched on Thursday, the first in a series of short Hollywood productions aimed at spurring action on climate change. FILE PHOTO: Joaquin Phoenix arrives at the British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA)

FILE PHOTO: Smoke rises from the smouldering remnants of a bushfire near Bumbalong, New South Wales, Australia, February 2, 2020. REUTERS/Loren Elliott SYDNEY (Reuters) – Many Australians were experiencing a bittersweet break from the threat of bushfires on Thursday, with flooding rains deluging some parts of the eastern states and a tropical cyclone forecast to