Environment
ConocoPhillips signals conditional support for U.N. climate deal
WASHINGTON - Oil and gas producer ConocoPhillips on Friday said it would support a UN climate change agreement if it met its own policy principles, including creating a "level playing among energy sources and between countries."
- Entangled blue whale spotted off southern California coast
- NHC says 50 percent chance of cyclone south of Cape Verde Islands
- Rising tide of loss and damage advances cause in U.N. climate deal
- Washington zoo's panda cub healthy, putting on weight
- At U.N. climate talks, growing frustration at 'snail's pace'
Recent Environment News
Mississippi River barge backup builds at oil spill site
- Barge shipping traffic on the Mississippi River backed up further on Friday after a tow boat accident and oil spill late on Wednesday prompted the U.S. Coast Guard to close a 17-mile stretch of the river near Paducah, Kentucky.
NHC says Fred now a tropical depression
- Fred, formerly a hurricane and a tropical storm, has now weakened into a tropical depression, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Friday.
India's monsoon starts withdrawing from northwest region: weather office
MUMBAI - India's June-September monsoon has started withdrawing from the north-western region, the weather department said on Friday, which could increase the rainfall deficit for the season.
How green should a course be in times of drought?
LOS ANGELES - For the non-golfer, the image is an unsettling one -- lush golf courses sprawling across the desert areas around Palm Springs in arid California while the state is suffering a drought for a fourth consecutive year.
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