Environment

Latest Stories

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol talks during the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week's opening ceremony in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

South Korea president, in UAE, backs return to nuclear power

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

African National Congress (ANC) President Cyril Ramaphosa cuts a cake with supporters at the Dr Molemela stadium in Mangaung, South Africa, Sunday, Jan 8, 2023. The ANC marks its 111st anniversary with celebratory events in Mangaung, Free State province, where the organization was founded in 1912. (AP Photo)

South African leader skips Davos amid electricity crisis

By Mogomotsi Magome - Associated Press

Banning the Gas Range (stove) Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

The cautionary tale of gas stoves and letting government make your decisions

By Michael McKenna

President Joe Biden, center, poses for a photo with Pacific Island leaders on the North Portico of the White House in Washington, Sept. 29, 2022. From left, New Caledonia President Louis Mapou, Tonga Prime Minister Siaosi Sovaleni, Palau President Surangel Whipps Jr., Tuvalu Prime Minister Kausea Natano, Micronesia President David Panuelo, Fiji Prime Minister Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama, Biden, Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare, Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape, Marshall Islands President David Kabua, Samoa Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa, French Polynesia President Edouard Fritch and Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

U.S. nears new cooperation deals with Pacific Island nations

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

A flame rises after an explosion at a gas pipeline near Pasvalys, 175 km (109 miles) north of Vilnius in northern Lithuania on Friday, Jan. 13, 2023. Officials say an explosion has occurred in a pipeline in central Lithuania carrying natural gas to the north of the country and neighboring Latvia but no supply disruptions or injuries were reported. Baltic media reported that Friday's blast sent flames up to 50 meters (164 feet) into the sky and forced the protective evacuation of a nearby village. (AP Photo/Paulius Zidonis)

Explosion in gas pipeline in Lithuania, no injuries reported

By Liudas Dapkus - Associated Press

In this Nov. 6, 2018 photo, A Puerto Rican parrot roams inside one of the flight cages located in the facilities of the Iguaca Aviary at El Yunque, were the U.S. Fish &amp; Wildlife Service runs a parrot recovery program in collaboration with the U.S. Forest Service and the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico. Federal and local scientists will meet next month to debate how best to revive a species that numbered more than 1 million in the 1800s but dwindled to 13 birds during the 1970s after decades of forest clearing. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

Customs officials catch parrot in truck crossing Texas border

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

FILE - Fredrick Brower, center, helps cut up a bowhead whale caught by Inupiat subsistence hunters on a field near Barrow, Alaska, Oc. 7, 2014. After tidal surges and high winds from the remnants of a rare typhoon caused extensive flood damage to homes along Alaska's western coast in September, the U.S. government stepped in to help residents largely Alaska Natives repair property damage. Residents who opened Federal Emergency Management Agency brochures expecting to find instructions on how to file for aid in Alaska Native languages like Yup'ik or Inupiaq instead were reading nonsensical phrases. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull,File)

FEMA fires group for nonsensical Alaska Native translations

By Mark Thiessen - Associated Press

Devastation is seen in the aftermath from severe weather, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, in Moundville, Ala. A giant, swirling storm system billowing across the South spurred a tornado on Thursday that shredded the walls of homes, toppled roofs and uprooted trees. (Mike Goodall via AP)

Tornado hits Selma, Alabama; 8 deaths reported across South

By Kim Chandler and Jeff Martin - Associated Press

From left, Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Sweden's King Carl Gustaf at the inauguration of Esrange's new satellite launch ramp, Spaceport Esrange outside Kiruna Sweden, Friday Jan. 13, 2023. The European Commission and the Swedish government met in Sweden's northernmost city Kiruna and nearby Jukkasjarvi on Jan. 12-13, the first meeting since Swedish took over the EU presidency on Jan. 1, 2023. (Jonas Ekströme/TT News Agency via AP)

EU inaugurates first mainland satellite launch port

Associated Press

FILE - This photo provided by the Center for Biological Diversity shows seven cows seen within subpopulation 1 of Tiehm's buckwheat at Rhyolite Ridge in the Silver Peak Range of Esmeralda County, Nev., on Jan. 3, 2023. The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday, Jan. 13, announced a conditional loan of $700 million to an Australian mining company to pursue a proposed lithium project in Nevada, as the U.S. seeks domestic supplies for a key component in electric vehicle batteries. (Patrick Donnelly/Center for Biological Diversity via AP)

Nevada lithium mine gets $700M conditional loan from Energy

By Scott Sonner - Associated Press

People cool off in the water on a hot and sunny day at the beach in Barcelona, Spain, July 15, 2022. Earth’s fever persisted last year, not quite spiking to a record high but still in the top five or six warmest on record, government agencies reported Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)

2022 was fifth or sixth warmest on record as Earth heats up

By Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

American Nuclear Power Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Want energy independence? Think nuclear

By Rep. Rick W. Allen

A damaged home is seen in the aftermath of severe weather, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, near Prattville, Ala. A large tornado damaged homes and uprooted trees in Alabama on Thursday as a powerful storm system pushed through the South. (AP Photo/Vasha Hunt)

‘Dangerous’ Alabama tornado slams buildings, uproots trees

By Kim Chandler and Jeff Martin - Associated Press

The "Man" burns on the Black Rock Desert at Burning Man near Gerlach, Nev., on Aug. 31, 2013. The Burning Man Project and four co-plaintiffs filed a new lawsuit in federal court in Reno this week accusing the Bureau of Land Management of breaking environmental laws in approving Ormat Nevada Inc.'s exploratory drilling in the Black Rock Desert 120 miles (193 kilometers) north of Reno. Friends of Nevada Wilderness, Friends of Black Rock/High Rock Inc. and two local residents of Gerlach joined the suit that says the agency's environmental review of the exploration project ignored potential harms related to the "future but inevitable large scale geothermal project." (Andy Barron/ /The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP)

Burning Man latest foe of ‘green energy’ project in Nevada

By Scott Sonner - Associated Press

Illustration on cold weather in India by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

‘Greens’ ignore India’s lethal cold spells

By Vijay Jayaraj

FILE - A memorial for the victims of an apartment building fire is displayed in front of the building in the Bronx borough of New York, Jan. 13, 2022. Fires feeding off modern materials found in people's homes are burning faster and becoming more deadly at the same time that fire departments across the country are struggling to retain and recruit firefighters, officials said Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Fires becoming deadlier as firefighter recruitment wanes

By Rebecca Santana - Associated Press

This March 5, 2020, photo made available by NASA shows the main mirror assembly of the James Webb Space Telescope during testing at a Northrop Grumman facility in Redondo Beach, Calif. NASA is releasing the first images from the new telescope this week. (Chris Gunn/NASA via AP) **FILE**

NASA confirms first exoplanet uncovered by James Webb Space Telescope

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

FILE - Jennifer Homendy of the National Transportation Safety Board speaks during a news conference, Oct. 3, 2019, in Windsor Locks, Conn. On Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023, Homendy, the chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said she is concerned about the risk that heavy electric vehicles pose if they collide with lighter vehicles. (AP Photo/Chris Ehrmann, File)

U.S. official warns of risks posed by heavy electric vehicles

By Tom Krisher - Associated Press

Gen Nashimoto, of Luminalt, installs solar panels in Hayward, Calif., on April 29, 2020. California air regulators are set to approve an ambitious plan for the state to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045. Doing so will require a rapid transition away from oil and gas and toward renewable energy to power everything from cars to buildings. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

Korean solar panel company announces massive expansion in Georgia

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell participates in a panel during a Central Bank Symposium at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. (Claudio Bresciani/TT News Agency via AP)

Federal Reserve’s Powell warns the bank not to ‘wander’ into climate, social programs

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times