PORTO-NOVO, Benin (AP) 鈥� For many people in Benin, the forests empowered them before they were born, or in the first months of their lives.Barren women performed Voodoo rituals by sacred trees to get pregnant. Others were brought as newborns by parents seeking to ward off evil spirits. Some ...
About four decades ago, when the Environmental Protection Agency was first trying to figure out what to do about lead in drinking water, Ronnie Levin quantified its damage: Roughly 40 million people drank water with dangerous levels of lead, degrading the intelligence of thousands of kids.But ...
SEATTLE (AP) 鈥� Peter Bates was dropping his car at the mechanic this month when a notification pinged on his phone: killer whales were approaching his Seattle neighborhood.He hopped on a bus toward the water, then an electric bike. He was pedaling along a shoreline trail when orcas' black ...
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) 鈥� Kristian Vera stood on an Acapulco beach Saturday looking out toward dozens of sunken boats, including three of her own, all marked by floating buoys or just poking out of the water.Despite losing her livelihood in Hurricane Otis鈥� brutal pass through Mexico鈥檚 ...
SOELDEN, Austria (AP) 鈥� Norway's Ragnhild Mowinckel left the finish area of the season-opening women's World Cup race in tears Saturday after becoming the first skier to be disqualified for a forbidden type of wax on her skis.Mowinckel, a two-time Olympic silver medalist from the 2018 ...
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� Major corporations in water-guzzling industries such as clothing, food, beverage and technology want to be better stewards of the freshwater they use 鈥� especially as <a ...
