BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – An abandoned 22-story building in Lake Charles, Louisiana – once a city landmark and then a symbol of the destruction caused by Hurricanes Laura and Delta – was demolished Saturday after standing vacant for nearly four years. The Hertz Tower collapsed within seconds after a demolition crew inside set off a […]
PHOENIX (AP) — Cam Ferguson takes his place on the street next to Chase Field – home of Major League Baseball Arizona Diamondbacks – about four hours before the first pitch to set up his usual presentation of cold water, sports drinks, peanuts and candy. On this Labor Day afternoon, the temperature in downtown Phoenix […]
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The official nonprofit of the National Park Service is set to receive the largest grant in its history: a $100 million donation that the fundraising group called transformative for the nation’s national parks. The National Park Foundation, which was established by the U.S. Congress in the 1960s to support national parks, […]
BERLIN — Climate activists staged protests at several German airports on Thursday, forcing a temporary flight ban at some of them. It was the latest in a series of similar demonstrations. According to the group “Last Generation”, a total of eight activists took part in the protests at the airports in Berlin, Cologne-Bonn, Nuremberg and […]
BANGKOK– Southeast Asia is one of the regions most vulnerable to natural disasters, but a new analysis released Thursday shows that people there also feel best prepared. It seems logical that countries in and around the Pacific Ring of Fire, which are vulnerable to earthquakes, typhoons, storm surges and other hazards, would be the best […]
RENO, Nevada – Hundreds of people were allowed to return home Tuesday after fleeing a wildfire west of Reno that also closed Interstate 80 along the California-Nevada border. About 170 firefighters continued to work to secure the area and extinguish hot spots near Verdi, a town 11 miles from downtown Reno. One home was destroyed […]
RENO, Nevada – About 200 firefighters battled a wildfire along the California-Nevada border on Monday that destroyed a home, temporarily closed Interstate 80 and continued to threaten hundreds of homes west of Reno. No serious injuries were reported in the fire, which has burned about 200 hectares along the Truckee River since it broke out […]
Deliveries of Russian liquefied natural gas to France more than doubled in the first half of this year, according to new analysis of trade data, at a time when Europe was trying to withdraw from energy purchases that were used to finance the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine. Europe has restricted oil imports from Russia, but […]
LAHAINA, Hawaii — Josephine Fraser feared that her young family’s next home would be a tent. Fraser and her partner, two sons and dog had moved nine times in nine months, from one hotel room to another, since the worst U.S. wildfire in a century destroyed their hometown of Lahaina, Maui. Sometimes they had just […]
