French Riviera launches clean-up as fuel spill reaches beaches
RAMATUELLE, France (Reuters) - Some of France’s spectacular Riviera beaches have been shut as volunteers with shovels and sacks try to rid the coastline of a thick oily residue that…
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Midterms 2018: Take It To The House
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A water fight in Chile's Atacama raises questions over lithium mining
SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA (Reuters) - Earlier this year, the world’s two biggest lithium producers publicly celebrated new deals with Chile’s government that will allow them to vastly increase output…
Britain asks experts to advise on net zero emissions climate target
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has asked its climate change experts to advise on whether it should set a date to meet a net zero emissions target, the government said on…
Vietnamese environmental blogger ‘Mother Mushroom’ suddenly released from prison
HO CHI MINH CITY – In a surprise move, the Vietnamese government released Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, the environmental blogger known as Mother Mushroom, from prison on Wednesday. Quynh, 39,…
Audio: Racing to save the world’s amazing frogs with Jonathan Kolby
On this episode, we discuss the global outbreak of the chytrid fungus, which might have already driven as many as 200 species of frogs to extinction, but there have been…
Politics and peace: The fate of Colombia’s forests (commentary)
Juan Manuel Santos will be forever remembered as the president who ended one of the world’s longest armed conflicts, establishing a peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia…
Jair Bolsonaro: looming threat to the Amazon and global climate?
Jair Bolsonaro launches his presidential candidacy, July 2018. Image by Fernando Frazão / Agência Brasil. With little more than a week to go until a runoff election, far-right presidential candidate…
Energy firms, green groups call for strong UK carbon price to keep coal at bay
LONDON (Reuters) - Energy companies and green groups have written separate letters this week to Britain’s finance minister asking for the country’s strong carbon price to be maintained to prevent…
Cambodia accuses Vietnam of complicity in illegal cross-border logging
HANOI — Cambodia has asked Interpol to investigate Vietnam after accusing its neighbor of knowingly accepting fraudulent permits for rare, illegally logged rosewood timber for transport across their shared border.…