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Alberta announces six-month pause on renewable energy, citing rural concerns

Alberta announces six-month pause on renewable energy, citing rural concerns

EDMONTON — Alberta's United Conservative government is pausing all approvals in the province's booming renewable energy industry in response to what it says are rural and environmental concerns.
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Death of woman hit by branch in Toronto park shows need for maintenance: arborists

Death of woman hit by branch in Toronto park shows need for maintenance: arborists

TORONTO — The recent death of a woman who was hit by a falling branch in a popular Toronto park has highlighted the need to carefully maintain the more than 3.5 million trees in the city's public spaces, arborists say.
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Pope gets an electrifying World Youth Day welcome and urges fighting for economic justice, climate

Pope gets an electrifying World Youth Day welcome and urges fighting for economic justice, climate

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of flag-waving young people from around the globe gave Pope Francis a raucous welcome to the World Youth Day festival in Portugal's capital Thursday, in a sign of youthful support for the 86-year-old pont
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Amazon Indigenous are leaving rainforest for cities, and finding urban poverty

ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil (AP) — In 1976, Binan Tuku ventured to meet a Brazilian government's expedition on the banks of the Itui River in a remote area of the western Amazon rainforest.
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US judge blocks water pipeline in Montana that was meant to boost rare fish

US judge blocks water pipeline in Montana that was meant to boost rare fish

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A U.S. judge blocked a proposed water pipeline through a wilderness area in southwest Montana that was intended to help a rare fish species that's in sharp decline due to habitat loss, warming temperatures and other pressures.
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As climate disasters increase, N.S. volunteer firefighters need more financial help

As climate disasters increase, N.S. volunteer firefighters need more financial help

WINDSOR, N.S. — On July 22, volunteer firefighter Logan Hope made a heroic rescue as historic flooding hit Nova Scotia, but eight days later — injured and off work — he was struggling to make ends meet. “I’m trying to survive.
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Swaths of the US are living through a brutal summer. It's a climate wake-up call for many

Swaths of the US are living through a brutal summer. It's a climate wake-up call for many

Veronica Iordanova remembers Octobers growing up in Arizona when it was too cold to trick-or-treat in a short-sleeved Halloween costume. She can’t imagine that anymore.
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Birders flock to Green Bay to catch glimpse of Gulf Coast shorebird last seen in Wisconsin in 1845

Birders flock to Green Bay to catch glimpse of Gulf Coast shorebird last seen in Wisconsin in 1845

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Bird watchers are flocking to northeastern Wisconsin in the hopes of glimpsing a southern shorebird last seen in the state almost 180 years ago.
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Greenpeace demonstrators drape UK prime minister's house in black to protest oil expansion

Greenpeace demonstrators drape UK prime minister's house in black to protest oil expansion

LONDON (AP) — Five Greenpeace demonstrators were arrested Thursday after they draped the country estate of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in black fabric to protest his plan to expand oil and gas drilling in the North Sea.
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A car-carrying ship that burned for a week on the North Sea is towed to a Dutch port for salvaging

A car-carrying ship that burned for a week on the North Sea is towed to a Dutch port for salvaging

EEMSHAVEN, Netherlands (AP) — Tugboats towed a freight ship that burned for a week on the North Sea while carrying thousands of cars into a Dutch port on Thursday for salvaging, laying to rest fears that it could sink close to shipping lanes and a pr
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