Seas could rise higher than predicted, drenching coastal cities: study

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Global seas could rise nearly twice as much as previous, widely accepted estimates, according to a study published on Thursday saying low-lying cities face possible disaster by the end of the century.


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Rescued sea turtle undergoes experimental treatment in Seattle

(Reuters) - Seattle veterinarians will test a rescued sea turtle on Friday to see whether treatment in a hyperbaric chamber, typically used for decompression sickness in human divers, has cured a buoyancy disorder preventing the marine reptile from being released back to the ocean. 











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Hundreds of homing pigeons perish in New York fire

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hundreds of homing pigeons kept atop a Brooklyn rowhouse were among the victims of a fire this week that displaced more than 20 families in the New York borough, fire officials and local media said on Thursday.


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United States, China to sign Paris climate accord on April 22

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and China confirmed Thursday that they will sign the Paris climate change agreement in New York on April 22, a move that officials hope will help the accord enter into force this year.


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Britain's greenhouse gas emissions fell 3.3 pct in 2015: government

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions fell by 3.3 percent in 2015, largely due to a decline in coal-fired power generation and marking the third straight yearly drop, preliminary government data showed on Thursday.


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U.S. environmental groups sue to overturn GMO salmon approval

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. health regulators are facing a lawsuit from a coalition of environmental organizations seeking to overturn the government's landmark approval of a type of genetically engineered salmon to be farmed for human consumption.


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Oklahoma storm-packing tornadoes injure seven, damage buildings

(Reuters) - Several tornadoes were reported in northern Oklahoma late on Wednesday, with heavy winds blowing down power lines, damaging structures and injuring at least seven people, regional officials said.











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Rescued sea turtles Thunder & Lightning arrive for rehab in San Diego

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (Reuters) - Two endangered olive ridley sea turtles found stranded and comatose along the northern Oregon coast in December were flown by the U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday to San Diego to begin long-term rehabilitative care at SeaWorld.


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Britain to ship record amount of nuclear waste to U.S.: UK government source

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will ship 700 kilograms of nuclear waste to the United States under a deal to be announced by Prime Minister David Cameron at a nuclear security summit in Washington on Thursday, a British government source said.


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Rare Amur leopard euthanized at Oregon zoo

PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) - One of the planet's last remaining Amur leopards, a 20-year-old giant cat plagued by kidney disease and extreme old age, was euthanized at the Oregon Zoo, officials said on Wednesday.


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Westinghouse expects to sign India reactor deal in June: CEO

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chief executive of Toshiba Corp's Westinghouse Electric said on Wednesday he expects to sign a deal in June to build six nuclear reactors in India after marathon negotiations that began more than a decade ago.











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Supreme Court sympathetic to property owner in wetlands dispute

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared likely to rule that property owners can challenge the federal government in court over the need for permits under a national water protection law in a case involving a company's plans for a Minnesota peat mine.


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Climate forecasts underestimate sea-rise impact of Antarctic thaw: study

OSLO (Reuters) - Sea levels could rise 50 cm (20 inches) more this century than had been expected, according to a report published on Wednesday which found that Antarctic ice will melt faster than previously thought.











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California lawmakers urge CalPERS to divest from Exxon

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two California Democratic congressmen on Wednesday urged the California Public Employees Retirement System, the largest U.S. public pension fund, to divest from oil giant ExxonMobil over its handling of the issue of climate change.











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Washington nuclear plant to restart this week after shutdown

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Washington state nuclear power plant is expected to be restarted this week after it was shut down to check an issue with a valve that was discovered during a maintenance test, a representative said on Wednesday.


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Kenyan wildlife rangers shoot dead stray lion near the capital

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan wildlife rangers shot dead a stray male lion in the outskirts of Nairobi after it attacked and injured a local resident, the Kenya Wildlife Service said.











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Hundreds of UK churches set to go green, switch to renewable energy-charities

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 400 churches in the United Kingdom plan to switch to clean energy providers for their light and heat, shifting spending of 1 million pounds ($1.4 million) to renewables from fossil fuels, two Christian charities said on Wednesday.


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Drought cuts output of Zimbabwe's top export earner tobacco

HARARE (Reuters) - Production of tobacco, Zimbabwe's biggest export earner, is expected to fall 15 percent to 160 million kilograms this season following a drought that has left millions facing hunger, an industry survey showed on Wednesday.











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Probe of Exxon's climate change disclosures expands

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top attorneys from Massachusetts and the U.S. Virgin Islands said on Tuesday they will investigate whether Exxon Mobil Corp misled investors and the public about the risks of climate change.


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Terminix to pay $10 million for pesticide misuse: Justice Department

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pest control company Terminix International Co LP and its U.S. Virgin Islands operation were charged on Tuesday with illegally applying a restricted-use pesticide in multiple residences in the Virgin Islands, the U.S. Justice Department said.











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U.S. FTC sues Volkswagen over diesel advertising claims

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday sued Volkswagen Group of America, saying the U.S. arm of the German automaker falsely advertised more than a half million diesel vehicles as environmentally friendly when it knew they were emitting excess pollution.











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South Africa's stealthy lion Sylvester escapes from reserve again

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African lion called "Sylvester", who was on the loose for three weeks last year, has escaped from his game reserve again and is wandering a sparsely-populated mountain region, South African National Parks (SANParks) said on Tuesday.











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GMO labels spread as U.S. congressional effort to halt them fades

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Even as General Mills Inc and other companies vow to keep fighting mandatory labeling of genetically modified food ingredients, they have begun rolling out these disclosures across the United States to comply a new Vermont law.











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USGS revises seismic risk map to include quakes caused by humans

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Earthquakes caused by human activity will now be included in the U.S. Geological Survey's seismic risk maps, the agency said on Monday after a sharp rise in temblors linked to wastewater disposal wells used by the oil and gas industry in Oklahoma.


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Too early to hail dip in China's CO2, despite coal fall-study

OSLO (Reuters) - Reports of a historic dip in China's carbon dioxide emissions in the past two years are premature because of uncertainty over data showing the pace of a decline in coal use by the world's biggest consumer, a study showed on Monday.











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Alaska volcano erupts with massive ash cloud, diverting flights

(Reuters) - A volcano on the Alaska Peninsula erupted with little advanced warning over the weekend, spewing an ash cloud up to 20,000 feet (6,096 meters) high that prompted aviation warnings across the region, scientists said on Monday.


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China pushes for mandatory integration of renewable power

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has ordered power transmission companies to provide grid connectivity for all renewable power generation sources and end a bottleneck that has left a large amount of clean power idle, the country's energy regulator said on Monday.











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China's polluted Hebei promises clean-up for 2022 Winter Games

BEIJING (Reuters) - The top official in China's northern province of Hebei, one of the country's most polluted, has vowed to use the staging of the 2022 Winter Olympics to drive efforts to cut smog, promote clean energy and ease dependence on heavy industry.


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Magnitude 4.8 quake strikes offshore Mexico's Baja California, no damage

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck in the Gulf of California, east of Mexico's Baja California peninsula on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, and local authorities said there were no reports of damage.











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Easter snow helps U.S. firefighters slowly contain prairie wildfire

(Reuters) - A wildfire that has scorched hundreds of thousands acres of prairie and ranch land in Kansas and Oklahoma since last week was slowly being contained, authorities said on Sunday, with a rare Easter snowfall providing some help to fire-fighting teams.


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Black Hawk helicopters aid crews fighting Kansas wildfire

(Reuters) - Black Hawk helicopters dumped buckets of water on an immense wildfire raging across Kansas and Oklahoma on Saturday, helping firefighters to get an edge on a blaze that has destroyed hundreds of square miles of ranch land, officials said.











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US officials extend emergency water assistance for Flint, Michigan

(Reuters) - Federal officials have extended an emergency declaration for Flint that has provided supplies of bottled water, filters and test kits to the Michigan city suffering from lead contamination in drinking water, the state governor said on Friday.


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One of Seattle zoo's twin orangutans dies at age 48

(Reuters) - An orangutan that was one of the first set of twins known to be born in captivity died at the Seattle zoo this week at age 48, after living two decades longer than the median life expectancy for the Asian great ape, a zoo spokeswoman said on Friday.











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Winds expected to feed wildfires in Kansas, Oklahoma

(Reuters) - Crews battling wildfires that scorched roughly 400,000 acres in Kansas and Oklahoma braced on Friday for wind gusts to resume, feeding a fire so big it shows on satellite images and its smoke has reached Kentucky.


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Polish minister approves tripling of logging in ancient forest

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland will approve a tripling in the volume of wood to be harvested from Bialowieza Forest, the environment minister said on Friday, putting the country on a collision course with the European Union and environmentalists.











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Japan to see warmer weather during April-June: forecaster

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will see mostly warmer weather from April to June, the official forecaster said on Friday.


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Japan's Shikoku Electric to scrap aging nuclear reactor

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese utility Shikoku Electric Power Co said on Friday it would scrap the ageing 566-megawatt No.1 reactor at its Ikata nuclear plant on May 10.


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Blizzard sweeps through the U.S. Midwest, rain drenches South

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The blizzard that blasted Colorado and shut down Denver's airport swept through the U.S. Midwest on Thursday, dumping up to 13 inches (33 cm) in northern Wisconsin, but the storm was expected to leave the Midwest by the evening or earlier, forecasters said.











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South Carolina governor urges U.S. to divert plutonium from Japan

TOKYO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has written to U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz demanding a shipment of weapons-grade plutonium en route to her state from Japan be turned back or sent elsewhere, according to a copy of the letter seen by Reuters.


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China leads as green energy investment plans hit record high

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - China helped push global green energy investment plans to record heights in 2015, offsetting a sharp fall in Germany, authors of a U.N.-backed report said on Thursday, predicting further growth.











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Much-needed rain forecast for South Africa, but too late for summer maize

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Most parts of South Africa are forecast to receive above average rainfall in the autumn season from April, the national weather service said on Thursday, too late to benefit the drought-seared summer maize crop.


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Japan whaling fleet returns from Antarctic hunt with 333 whales

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's whaling fleet returned on Thursday from its Antarctic hunt after a year-long suspension with a take of more than 300 whales, including pregnant females.











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Russian government mulls closing most dangerous coal mines: TASS

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's government is studying the issue of closing the country's most dangerous coal mines but no decision has been taken yet, TASS news agency quoted Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich as saying on Thursday.


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Giant arch to block Chernobyl radiation for next 100 years

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (Reuters) - 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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U.S. Navy tug found off California 95 years after going missing

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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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Activist who freed minks sentenced under rarely used U.S. terrorism law

CHICAGO (Reuters) - 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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Exclusive: Exxon Mobil must allow climate change vote - SEC

(Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has ruled Exxon Mobil Corp must include a climate change resolution in its annual shareholder proxy, a defeat for the world's largest oil producer, which had argued it already provides adequate carbon disclosures.


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Man nested in Seattle's landmark giant sequoia tree, draws coos, boos

(Reuters) - 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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Michigan state officials accountable in Flint water crisis :inquiry

DETROIT (Reuters) - A task force appointed by Michigan’s governor said on Wednesday state officials showed stubbornness, lack of preparation, delay and inaction in failing to prevent a health crisis in the city of Flint caused by lead contamination in the drinking water.











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Frozen power lines trigger hundreds of flight cancellations at Denver airport

(Reuters) - More than 300 flights were canceled at Denver International Airport on Wednesday after freezing snow on power lines from a blizzard triggered a power outage, an airport spokesman said.











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U.S., Argentina take steps to tackle climate change

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - 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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Five bald eagles killed in Delaware

(Reuters) - 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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Exhausted by 40 desert marathons, Australian says: 'Save water'

OSLO (Reuters) - Exhausted after wearing out eight pairs of shoes in 40 marathons across deserts from Antarctica to the United States, Australian Mina Guli hopes her runs will inspire other people to safeguard the planet's fresh water supplies.











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World Bank approves $500 million loan for Beijing clean-air projects

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - 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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Zimbabwean 'wizard' bewitches a bumper crop amid drought

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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Asia most exposed to disaster risk but Africa likely to suffer more

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Asia has the largest number of people exposed to natural disasters, but African countries are the most vulnerable to them, largely because of political instability, corruption, poverty and inequality, a new global assessment shows.


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Australia announces A$1 billion clean energy fund, in break with past

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Wednesday said the country would establish a A$1 billion ($761.60 million) clean-energy innovation fund, in a major departure from his predecessor's much maligned approach to combating climate change.











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Exhausted by 40 desert marathons, Australian says: 'Save water'

OSLO (Reuters) - Exhausted after wearing out eight pairs of shoes in 40 marathons across deserts from Antarctica to the United States, Australian Mina Guli hopes her runs will inspire other people to safeguard the planet's fresh water supplies.


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Michigan outlines Flint recovery plan

DETROIT (Reuters) - Michigan's government on Monday released goals to help the city of Flint recover from a health crisis caused by the lead contamination of its drinking water.











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China state firms seen boosting green energy investment in Australia

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Chinese state-owned companies are expected to boost their investment in Australia's expanding renewable energy sector, attracted by a national leadership that is more favorable to the industry than its forerunner.


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Japan sends 331 kg of weapons grade plutonium to U.S.: Greenpeace

TOKYO (Reuters) - A ship loaded with weapons-grade plutonium left Japan for the United States on Tuesday in what is the largest such shipment of the highly dangerous material since 1992, the environmental group Greenpeace said.











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