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Appeals court revives Native American challenge to $10B SunZia energy transmission project

Appeals court revives Native American challenge to $10B SunZia energy transmission project

A federal appeals court has sided with Native American tribes in their fight against the federal government over a $10 billion energy transmission line designed to carry wind-generated electricity from New Mexico to customers as far away as Californi
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Nova Scotia mum on why it won't release findings from environmental racism panel

Nova Scotia mum on why it won't release findings from environmental racism panel

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government is refusing to release recommendations from a panel tasked with examining environmental racism in the province, and the minister responsible isn’t saying why.
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$14 billion in clean energy projects have been canceled in the US this year, analysis says

$14 billion in clean energy projects have been canceled in the US this year, analysis says

More than $14 billion in clean energy investments in the U.S.
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Search suspended for a missing man in Swiss glacier collapse that destroyed 90% of an Alpine village

Search suspended for a missing man in Swiss glacier collapse that destroyed 90% of an Alpine village

GENEVA (AP) — The search for a missing 64-year-old man was suspended Thursday because of unsafe conditions after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside the day before.
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Nepal's mountaineering community celebrates 72nd anniversary of Mount Everest conquest

Nepal's mountaineering community celebrates 72nd anniversary of Mount Everest conquest

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal's mountaineering community celebrated the conquest of the world's highest mountain with a rally of climbers, guides and others who gathered for International Everest Day.
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UN official says Russia isn't imminently turning on Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

UN official says Russia isn't imminently turning on Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

VIENNA (AP) — Inspectors from the U.N.
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What would happen if the Amazon rainforest dried out? This decades-long experiment has some answers

What would happen if the Amazon rainforest dried out? This decades-long experiment has some answers

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil (AP) — A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser and the temperature rises in places sunlight hits the ground.
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Cats with hooked and bent tails fill Nagasaki, Japan, where they are thought to bring good luck

Cats with hooked and bent tails fill Nagasaki, Japan, where they are thought to bring good luck

NAGASAKI, Japan (AP) — In Japan, bobtail cats are considered good luck and Nagasaki is the place to find them.
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Entangled right whale seen in St. Lawrence River estuary: DFO

Entangled right whale seen in St. Lawrence River estuary: DFO

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans says it's aware of an entangled North Atlantic right whale on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River estuary. It says the whale was spotted in the Saguenay-St.
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Arizona's rural groundwater deal stalls as legislative session nears end

Arizona's rural groundwater deal stalls as legislative session nears end

WENDEN, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona's governor and the GOP-controlled Legislature are at odds over regulating groundwater pumping in the state's rural areas — and time is running out. Democratic Gov.
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