Saleemul Huq, a pioneering climate scientist from Bangladesh who pushed to get the world to understand, pay for and adapt to worsening warming impacts on poorer nations, died of cardiac arrest Saturday. He was 71.鈥淪aleem always focused on the poor and marginalized, making sure that climate ...
PANAMA CITY (AP) 鈥� Protests extended into a second week Monday over a long-term copper mining concession for a Canadian company, as Panama's government sought to calm anger by promising to let Panamanians decide in a referendum whether to scrap the deal.A broad cross-section of society has ...
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) 鈥� Officials said Monday that heavy rain from Tropical Storm Pilar has already caused two deaths in El Salvador as it meanders off the Pacific coast.A 24-year-old man and a 57-year-old woman were swept away by swollen streams Sunday in the province of La Union, ...
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) 鈥� Ontario-based Canadian Solar Inc. will build an $800 million solar panel factory in southeastern Indiana that will employ about 1,200 workers once production is fully ramped up, the company said Monday.Canadian Solar said it will build the new photovoltaic cell ...
In a little more than five years 鈥� sometime in early 2029 鈥� the world will likely be unable to stay below the internationally agreed temperature limit for <a href="http://www.apnews.com/climate-and-environment.">global warming</a> if it continues to burn fossil ...
STOCKHOLM (AP) 鈥� A ferry that ran aground off southeastern Sweden was leaking oil into the Baltic Sea and suffered 鈥渆xtensive damage,鈥� a spokesman for the Swedish Coast Guard said Monday.On Oct. 22, the Marco Polo, operated by TT-Line of Germany, was running between two Swedish ports, ...
