Environment

A zookeeper holds a 7-week-old leopard cub at Debrecen Zoo, Hungary, April 17, 2020. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo DEBRECEN, Hungary (Reuters) – A seven-week-old leopard cat born in a Hungarian zoo was allowed out for the first time on Friday to enjoy the spring sunshine but he will have to wait a while before he can meet

HONG KONG (Reuters) – A zero food waste cafe in Hong Kong is trying to tackle the financial hub’s escalating trash problem by providing meals that are fully compostable, such as vegetables and herb flatbreads, and packaging that is turned into fertiliser. Mana Cafe’s founder Bobsy Gaia poses with a book at his cafe in

(Reuters) – The Trump administration on Thursday withdrew the legal justification for an Obama-era rule that forced coal-fired power plants to cut their mercury emissions, saying the cost of compliance far outweighed the public health benefits. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for the daily coronavirus task force briefing in the Rose Garden at

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The U.S. Forest Service has suspended controlled burns on public lands in wildfire-prone California because of the coronavirus pandemic, upsetting officials who see the program as key to preventing seasonal infernos like those that devastated parts of the state in 2018. FILE PHOTO: A charred landscape is left by a wildfire

FILE PHOTO: Mizuho Financial Group logo is seen at the company’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan August 20, 2018. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo TOKYO (Reuters) – Mizuho Financial Group said it will stop financing new coal power projects and end all loans for coal by 2050, handing a victory to the global climate movement and adding pressure

KIEV (Reuters) – A huge fire that tore through forests around the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant has been put out, Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday, after hundreds of emergency workers used planes and helicopters to douse the flames. Environmental activists said on Monday that the fire, near the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster

(Reuters) – The death toll from a series of tornadoes that hammered the U.S. South over the weekend rose to at least 18 on Monday as rescue workers and homeowners dug through debris left in the wake of a weather system now threatening the U.S. East Coast. Damaged buildings and vehicles are seen in the

(Reuters) – An earthquake of magnitude 5.3 struck central California on Saturday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre said bit.ly/2VoiFID. The quake’s epicentre was 446 km north of Los Angeles and was 10 km below the Earth’s surface. Reporting by Sangameswaran S in Bengaluru; Editing by Bernadette Baum Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose in March, government data showed on Friday, indicating that illegal loggers and land speculators have not stopped destroying the forest with the onset of the coronavirus outbreak. FILE PHOTO: Indigenous people from the Mura tribe show a deforested area in unmarked indigenous lands, inside the Amazon

SAN ANTONIO DEL TEQUENDAMA, Colombia (Reuters) – A small zoo in central Colombia has called on its social media followers to come up with names for newborn primates delivered in the current birthing season – and most suggestions are related to the coronavirus pandemic. A spider monkey hugs its baby inside a cage at the

ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek researchers say a sudden decline in human-generated noise levels due to a nationwide coronavirus lockdown is giving them valuable insights into the inner rumblings of earth. FILE PHOTO: A man wearing a protective face mask makes his way on the empty Kotzia square, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Athens,

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China will look to ban ultra-thin plastic bags and agricultural-use plastic mulch, as well as other types of non-biodegradable plastic products, the country’s state planning authority said in draft proposals published on Friday. The proposals cover shopping bags with a thickness of less than 0.025 millimetres and plastic mulch – used to

LONDON (Reuters) – Cement and steel companies are being warned by investors over their lobbying on planned European Union carbon costs, saying they are effectively asking to be compensated twice over. FILE PHOTO: The pink supermoon rises behind the ruin of a blast furnace of the former Phoenix West steel mill in Dortmund, Germany, April

FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sign is seen on the podium at EPA headquarters in Washington, U.S., July 11, 2018. REUTERS/Ting Shen/File Photo (Reuters) – A U.S. federal court on Tuesday rejected a challenge from two oil refining companies to its January ruling that the Environmental Protection Agency had been handing out

FILE PHOTO: Power-generating windmill turbines are seen at a wind park in Flesquieres near Cambrai, France March 3, 2020. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol LONDON (Reuters) – Investment in new wind power projects in Europe fell almost 25% to 19 billion euros ($20.7 billion) in 2019 compared to a year earlier and projects are likely to face financing

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s Environment Minister Ricardo Salles has dismissed a senior analyst who opposed rescinding environmental authorizations for wood exports, according to a notice published in the official government gazette on Monday. Brazil’s Environment Minister Ricardo Salles looks on during a ceremony to sign a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in urban sustainability with