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Nashville shooter who killed 6 drew maps, surveilled school

Police say a former student shot through the doors of a Christian elementary school and killed three children and three adults after elaborately planning the massacre by drawing out a detailed map and conducting surveillance of the building.

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Nashville shooter who killed 6 drew maps, surveilled school

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50 minutes ago

U.S. renewable electricity surpassed coal in 2022

The U.S. Energy Information Administration announced that electricity generated from renewables surpassed coal electricity production in the United States for the first time in 2022.

14 hours ago

Wind industry predicts bounceback and rapid growth in 2023

The wind power industry expects rapidly accelerating growth this year after a challenging 2022.

20 hours ago

Australia steps toward making big polluters reduce emissions

The Australian government has taken a major step toward implementing a key climate policy that would force chief greenhouse gas polluters to reduce emissions.

20 hours ago

Mississippi tornado victims wonder, 'How can we rebuild?'

Poverty is adding to the challenges of recovering from a massive tornado that pushed through Mississippi.

1 day ago

Churches provide solace in tornado-ravaged Mississippi Delta

Many residents in one of the Mississippi towns hit hardest by devastating tornadoes have found solace in their church communities Sunday.

1 day ago

Pray for rain: Spanish farmers hold unique Mass amid drought

In drought-stricken Spain, around 250 villagers brought back the faded practice of a special Mass and procession to pray for rain.

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Factory or farm? Oregon may alter land use for chipmakers

For exactly 50 years, Oregon’s farms and forests have been protected from urban sprawl by the nation’s first statewide law creating urban growth boundaries.

1 day ago

Berliners vote to decide on climate goals for city

Berlin voters are asked to decide on a proposal that would force the city government to drastically ramp up the German capital’s climate goals.

2 days ago

Mexico sanctioned for not protecting endangered porpoise

Mexico faces sanctions from the international wildlife body known as CITES for not doing enough to protect the vaquita marina, a small porpoise that is the world's most endangered marine mammal.

2 days ago

Biden's moves on Alaska drilling, TikTok test young voters

Recent moves by President Joe Biden to pressure TikTok and approve oil drilling in an untapped area of Alaska are testing the loyalty of a young voters.

2 days ago

Germany, EU reach agreement in combustion engine row

Germany and the European Union say they have reached an agreement in their dispute over the future of cars with combustion engines, allowing the registration of new vehicles with such engines even after 2035 if they use climate-neutral fuel only.

2 days ago

Berlin vote could turbocharge German capital's climate plans

Berlin voters on a proposal Sunday that would force the German capital to drastically ramp up its climate goals.

3 days ago

UN head says survival depends on how people manage water

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says humanity’s survival depends on how people manage water.

3 days ago

California ends some water limits after storms ease drought

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ended some of the state water restrictions.

3 days ago

Much of West Coast faces ban to fish salmon amid low stocks

Federal officials are expected to prohibit king salmon fishing this season along much of the West Coast, which many predict could stretch into 2024 season as the drought and other factors take their toll on the iconic Chinook fish.

Regulators, landowners form habitat protection partnership

The Biden administration and groups representing the forest products industry have reached a deal to promote logging practices intended to protect imperiled species on private lands.

Army Corps further delays decision on Great Lakes oil tunnel

Federal officials are delaying a decision on whether to approve an oil pipeline tunnel in a Great Lakes waterway.

'Appalling': Southern Africa counts toll of Cyclone Freddy

The World Health Organization says the death toll from Tropical Cyclone Freddy, which ravaged Madagascar, Malawi and Mozambique over the past two months, now stands at more than 600 people.

Cost of India quitting coal is $900 billion, think tank says

India will require $900 billion over the next 30 years to move away from coal mines and thermal plants, a New Delhi based think tank said in a report Thursday.

Ohio toxic train derailment upends school baseball, track

As spring sports get underway at East Palestine High School in Ohio, organizers are trying to create normalcy for student-athletes while cleanup from the February train derailment and toxic chemical burn continues just over a mile away.

Weather-weary California hopes for sunny spring after storms

With spring now underway, California's 39 million residents are hopeful for sunnier days ahead.

Muddy clothes? 'Cop City' activists question police evidence

Civil liberties groups and defense attorneys are outraged at the domestic terrorism charges that have been levied against 23 people who were arrested after a masked group attacked an Atlanta-area police training center construction site.

Ford says EV unit losing billions, should be seen as startup

Ford’s electric vehicle business has lost $3 billion before taxes during the past two years and will lose a similar amount this year as the company invests heavily in the new technology.

Oil exec held for 5 years in Venezuela sues Citgo for $100M

One of the six oil executives with a Texas-based company who was imprisoned five years in Venezuela is suing his company for $100 million.

UN chief urges 'game-changing' commitments on clean water

The United Nations chief is urging the first world conference on water in more than 45 years to address the “21st century emergency” that is wasting the world’s most important resource and has left billions of people without clean water and basic sanitation.

A 5,000-mile seaweed belt is headed toward Florida

There's a pesky problem in a wide stretch of the Atlantic Ocean that's likely to wash up on some beaches later this year: Seaweed.

Climate solution: Downsize laundry jugs to cut emissions

Laundry detergent bottles are looking a little different these days.

A quarter of world population lacks safe drinking water: UN

A report says 26% of the world’s population doesn’t have access to safe drinking water and 46% lacks access to basic sanitation.

Biden creates national monuments in Nevada, Texas mountains

President Joe Biden has established national monuments in Nevada and Texas and creating a marine sanctuary southwest of Hawaii.

African nations consider swapping debt for climate funding

African countries saddled with debt and ravaged by losses and damages from weather events like cyclones, drought and extreme temperatures have agreed to consider swapping debt to invest in climate action in a meeting of finance ministers in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.

No telling how much more snow coming for Sierra Nevada

A relentless winter at Lake Tahoe has now etched its way into the history books as the Sierra's second-snowiest on record.

Last wild Atlantic salmon can survive Maine dams, feds say

The federal government says endangered Atlantic salmon can coexist with dams on a river in Maine, dealing a blow to environmentalists who want to remove the dams.

France ordered to curb mass dolphin deaths in fishing nets

France’s highest administrative body has ordered the government to better protect endangered dolphins and porpoises in a French industrial fishing hub in the Atlantic Ocean that has become controversial over links to mass deaths of cetaceans in recent years.

Paris aims to keep Olympians cool without air conditioners

The Paris Olympics is going underground to find a way to keep athletes cool at the 2024 Games without air conditioners.

After caught in tornado, you might not believe what happened with this truck

The full footage can be seen in the video, which is part of a series where we are looking back at most-watched viral videos.

Insider Q&A: From oil to offshore wind, Ørsted transformed

There's scientific agreement that carbon emissions must cease in order to address climate change, but how does a company make that transition and remain profitable.

A week on, brutal Cyclone Freddy still taxes southern Africa

Over a week on from Cyclone Freddy’s second and more devastating landfall in Malawi and Mozambique and nearly a month since it battered Madagascar, the effects are still being felt as locals, officials and aid workers continue to uncover the full extent of the cyclone’s destruction.

Activists demand EU halts 'green' funds for Spain ski resort

Spanish environmental groups have called on the European Union to open an inquiry into the approval of 26.4 million euros of “green” recovery funds to join two ski resorts in the rapidly warming Pyrenees mountain range.

Report: 43,000 estimated dead in Somalia drought last year

A new report says an estimated 43,000 people died amid the longest drought on record in Somalia last year and half of them likely were children.

World on 'thin ice' as UN climate report gives stark warning

Humanity still has a chance, close to the last one, to prevent the worst of climate change’s future harms, a top United Nations panel of scientists said Monday.

Their world was the oyster: Oldest pearl town found in UAE

Archaeologists say they have found the oldest pearling town in the Persian Gulf on an island off one of the northern sheikhdoms of the United Arab Emirates.

2 skiers killed in large late-winter avalanches in Colorado

A skier has been killed in a large avalanche just outside a Colorado ski resort boundary, a day after authorities recovered the body of another avalanche victim in the state.

Nations approve key UN science report on climate change

Governments gave their blessing Sunday to a major new U.N. report on climate change, after approval was held up by a battle between rich and developing countries over emissions targets and financial aid to vulnerable nations.

Fear, grief follow deadly quake on Ecuador's southwest coast

The toll from an earthquake that rocked Ecuador and Peru this weekend stands at 15 dead.

New Mexico opts for veto power on spent nuclear fuel debate

New Mexico's governor has signed legislation that calls for banning the storage of spent nuclear fuel in New Mexico, unless the state provides its consent first.

Feds want justices to end Navajo fight for Colo. River water

The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide a critical water rights case in the arid Southwest.

Haaland criticized over ‘difficult’ choice on Willow project

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is facing criticism from political allies after the Biden administration approved a contentious oil drilling project in Alaska.

Spain: Long-term drought to bring more heatwaves, widlfires

Spain has entered a period of a long-term drought, owing to high temperatures and low rainfall over the past three years, and likely faces another year of heatwaves and forest fires.

Death toll rises, locals pick up pieces after Cyclone Freddy

Authorities are still getting to grips with the scale of Cyclone Freddy’s destruction in Malawi and Mozambique since late Saturday, with over 370 people confirmed dead and several hundreds still displaced or missing.

State and US officials tout spending to plug 'orphan wells'

Officials with the Biden administration have visited a Louisiana wildlife refuge touting plans to clean up and plug “orphan wells.”.

Public health cuts must be avoided, new PM told

Any cuts in funding in next week's spending announcement will hit poorest people hardest, warn experts.

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Thirteen Lives: Thai cave rescue actor Tom Bateman relieves diving fears

Actor Tom Bateman recalls how he overcame his claustrophobia in Ron Howard's film Thirteen Lives.

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Maggie Rogers: 'I'm not afraid to take up space any more'

Maggie Rogers on reclaiming her sexuality, and why she left pop music to study divinity at Harvard.

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Met Police: Watchdog slams misogyny and bullying in some ranks

The police watchdog focused on behaviour by mostly PCs based at Charing Cross Police station.

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Column: Washington Park kids again see Christmas tree torched. Let’s show them some holiday goodwill.

For the third year in a row, the Washington Park neighborhood Christmas tree has been destroyed, this time by arson. The children there deserve to know good wins out. A toy drive can help with that.

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Single-use plastic: Plates, cups and cutlery ban edges closer

It is "time we left our throwaway culture behind once and for all", the environment secretary says.

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The GOP's 2022 candidate problem

Bad candidates probably cost the GOP the Senate in 2010 and 2012. With extreme and baggage-laden candidates emerging again, could we see a repeat? Perhaps, but it's not as likely.

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Iona Fyfe: Scots traditional singer was 'offered gig help in return for sex'

Award-winning singer Iona Fyfe says she was propositioned by a man from a well-known band when she was 20.

bbc.co.uk

Early baby therapy could reduce autism diagnoses

Video training for parents could improve communication with their infants, a small study suggests.

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Kenosha sheriff, city police gave armed civilians license ‘to wreak havoc and inflict injury’ during last summer’s unrest: lawsuit

A federal lawsuit filed in Wisconsin seeks damages against Kenosha authorities for allegedly allowing armed civilians including Kyle Rittenhouse to operate freely during last summer's unrest, resulting in the death of Anthony Huber.

chicagotribune.com

Covid: How the pandemic is affecting your dreams

More than year into Covid-19, do people in your dreams wear masks or socially distance?

bbc.co.uk

’Resident Evil VIII: Village’ review: The illogical, weird magic of the series is back

They made Resident Evil weird again.

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