STOCKHOLM (AP) — A <a href="https://apnews.com/article/sweden-oil-slick-marco-polo-baltic-sea-a9d2ff1b02ecab606ad35e9a61968f99">ferry that ran aground</a> last month off southeastern Sweden and started leaking oil into the Baltic Sea arrived Thursday at a Swedish ...
AGUANGA, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters on Wednesday made inroads in containing a Southern California wildfire, but officials said many homes and other buildings remain threatened by the blaze that at one point saw thousands of people under orders to evacuateThe Highland Fire in rural Riverside ...
PANAMA CITY (AP) — Facing a second week of impassioned, nationwide protests, Panama's National Assembly has nearly passed a new law revoking a controversial mining contract in an environmentally vulnerable part of country.The bill passed a second debate late on Wednesday and now faces a final ...
Birds in North America will no longer be named after people, the American Ornithological Society <a href="https://americanornithology.org/about/english-bird-names-project/">announced Wednesday</a>.Next year, the organization will begin to rename around 80 species ...
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A panel of judges on Wednesday blocked changes for now that were made by North Carolina's Republican-controlled legislature to three state boards, attempts opponents criticized as a partisan bid to end Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s control of a majority of seats on ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and 22 other Democratic senators are urging federal regulators to investigate multibillion-dollar acquisitions by oil giants ExxonMobil and Chevron, saying the deals could lead to higher prices at the gas pump.In a letter Wednesday to the ...
