Environment

Operator of leaking California pipeline charged with negligence

LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) -- The operators of a California pipeline that leaked crude oil onto beaches south of…

Mayan Train, the president’s pet project exposing Mexico’s cracks

by Alexander MARTINEZ Agence France-Presse CAMPECHE, Mexico (AFP) - A proposed Mayan tourist train in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula has divided…

Operator of leaking California pipeline charged with negligence

LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) - The operators of a California pipeline that leaked crude oil on to beaches south…

Estonia’s wood pellet industry stokes controversy

by Polina KALANTAR Agence France-Presse IMAVERE, Estonia (AFP) - Estonia's thriving wood pellet industry is pitting environmentalists who warn it…

Vienna-Paris night train is reborn, empty

by Jean LIOU Agence France-Presse On board the Vienna-Paris night train, Austria (AFP) - The timing could perhaps have been better.…

Are tornadoes linked to climate change? The science isn’t yet definite

by Lucie AUBOURG WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- Was climate change behind the recent tornadoes that killed dozens of people…

Adored and endangered: the complex world of the Japanese eel

by Mathias CENA HAMAMATSU, Japan (AFP) -- Tsuyoshi Hachisuka gently places skewered eel on a grill, preparing a much-loved Japanese…

Gas field tremor terror haunts Dutch villages

by Jan HENNOP Agence France-Presse GARRELSWEER, Netherlands (AFP) - Teacher Daan Schoolland was asleep with his partner when the earthquake…

Wildlife concerns blunt Germany’s green power efforts

by Florian CAZERES Agence France-Presse CHORIN, Germany (AFP) - Germany is expanding its power grid to aid the transition to…

Colombian Amazon: casualty of peace

by David SALAZAR Agence France-Presse San José del Guaviare, Colombia (AFP) - In just a few minutes, an enormous century-year-old…

Florida manatees will be fed to prevent starvation

MIAMI, Florida (AFP) - Florida's manatees -- which are increasingly facing starvation, largely as a result of pollution -- are…

Thai Supreme Court jails tycoon over wildlife poaching

BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) - A Thai tycoon accused of poaching wildlife in a national park lost his final appeal Wednesday,…

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