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Canada cleans up nearly 700 metric tons of lost fishing gear from 2022 storm Fiona

By Wa Lone TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada said on Monday it helped pay for the removal of 695 metric tons of lost fishing gear in Atlantic Canada, which was hit by storm Fiona in 2022. The storm surge

US restricts drilling and mining in Alaska wilderness, angering state leaders

(This April 19 story has been refiled to correct the area conversion to 9.3 million hectare, not 93 million hectare, in paragraph 7) By Nichola Groom (Reuters) - The Biden administration took steps on

US EPA allows temporary expansion of higher-ethanol gasoline blend this summer

By Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will temporarily expand sales of higher-ethanol blends of gasoline this summer in an effort to reduce potential supply

Dutch zoo creates coral ‘Noah’s Ark’ to preserve endangered reefs

ARNHEM, Netherlands (Reuters) - Divers at a Netherlands zoo on Monday began work to create a "Noah's Ark" of coral as part of a global effort to preserve coral reefs by building reserve populations in

Series of earthquakes rattle Taiwan, centred on east coast

TAIPEI (Reuters) -More than a dozen earthquakes, the strongest of 5.7 magnitude, struck Taiwan's east coast on Monday and some caused brief shaking in the capital Taipei, the island's weather

UK’s Thames Water makes new clean-up pledge in bid to raise prices

By Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's Thames Water said on Monday it would spend an extra 1.1 billion pounds ($1.4 billion) on tackling sewage spills and fixing leaks to try to persuade the

Taiwan rattled by earthquake in eastern county

TAIPEI (Reuters) - A 5.5 magnitude earthquake struck Taiwan's eastern county of Hualien on Monday, the island's weather administration said, with no immediate reports of damage. The quake shook

Cocoa farming in Liberia risks undermining EU deforestation law

By Joe Bavier JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Farmers are clearing forests in Liberia to create cocoa plantations and are trafficking the beans into neighbouring Ivory Coast, undermining European efforts to

Denmark launches its biggest offshore wind tender

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark on Monday launched its biggest offshore wind tender to date, offering no subsidies to companies competing for the right to erect turbines on six sites with a combined

Biden to unveil $7 billion for rooftop solar in Earth Day message

(Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Monday will celebrate Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in grants for residential solar projects that will power nearly a million low-income households, the White

On Camera

NTA was supposed to rescue exams from ‘Munna Bhais’. Now it’s part of the problem

National Testing Agency’s charter is to assess the 'competence of candidates' for admission and recruitment, but NEET and UGC-NET firestorms have put its own competency in question.

Fewer millionaires set to emigrate this yr, India produces ‘far more’ than those leaving — Henley report

The report predicts net emigration of 4,300 millionaires in 2024, lower than the outflow in 2023 & 2022. Congress has raised concerns about the outflow of HNIs from the country.

Army hospital commandant says no misuse of disability pension grant. ‘Scrutiny at all levels’

Lt Gen Nilakantan says revised Entitlement Rules & Guide to Medical Officers for pensions had been revised to rationalise disability classification, quantification & granting of disability.

Modi’s new universe: the normal irritants of democracy & awkward chai with Rahul Gandhi

Changed reality for Modi govt in its 3rd innings is by no means rise of a new phenomenon. It's a return to old normal where even majorities had to routinely wrestle with storied million mutinies.