Tag Archives: Environment

A ban on the use of plastic straws, utensils and badtail spikes took effect in Seattle on Sunday.

On Monday, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) announced the Chandrayaan-2 mission, which will send an explorer to the south side of the moon later this year. It will be India's second …

The Belize Barrier Reef System, a 190-mile coral sample that includes famous sites such as the Great Blue Hole, has been removed from UNESCO's list of endangered sites after a general campaign …

Agricultural industry groups refused to show the Queensland government the results of a government-funded program that seeks to improve the water quality of the Great Barrier Reef. The Queensland Audit Office, in …

LOS ANGELES / SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Tesla Inc's decision to cut 9 percent of its workforce last week will drastically reduce the residential solar business it bought two years ago in …

Seoul, South Korea (AP) – Hyundai Motor Group said on Wednesday it had signed an agreement with Audi AG to jointly develop electronic vehicles powered by fuel cells. According to the multi-year …

by Associated Press June 19 at 3:39 PM HAZELWOOD, Mo. – A federal report says that people who lived near or played in a polluted creek in the St. Louis from the …

GOTHIC, Colo. – David Inouye is an accidental weather scientist. More than 40 years ago, the biologist at the University of Maryland began studying when wildflowers, birds, bees and butterflies appeared for …

I In an industrial park in San Jose, California, Grant Bonin holds what appears to be the end of a metal water bottle. It's the casing, he jokes, of his company's "flying …

KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday announced an unconditional ceasefire with the Taliban until June 20, coinciding with the end of the Muslim fasting season, but he excluded all …