3+ hour, 4+ min ago  (697+ words) ASTYPALAIA, Greece, July 16 (Reuters) – Seven Greek islands in the Aegean Sea have declared drought emergencies this year to preserve water as climate change makes summers hotter and rainfall more erratic. Now, authorities are wondering if it will rain next year…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (385+ words) BRUSSELS, July 15 (Reuters) – Ten countries, including Italy and Poland, have urged the European Union to reconsider a new carbon price on fuel, as part of a separate revision of the bloc’s ​carbon market, according to a joint statement seen by…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (340+ words) LONDON, July 15 (Reuters) – Britain’s four most recent years are all among its five warmest on record, according to the country’s meteorological office, which said on Wednesday ​rising temperatures were making once-exceptional weather conditions increasingly ordinary. The ‌Met Office’s annual climate…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (424+ words) HARWICH, England, July 15 (Reuters) – An international team of around 80 scientists and crew will set sail on polar research ship the RSS David Attenborough for Greenland this week to investigate whether the island’s rapidly ​melting glaciers could disrupt a major Atlantic…...

2+ day, 5+ min ago  (1569+ words) By Disha Raychaudhuri and Valerie Volcovici July 14 (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has installed 59 natural gas turbines for its Colossus 2 data center project in Tennessee without securing federal clean air permits, according to communications between regulators and xAI…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago  (187+ words) Harmful algae bloom detected at Gun Lake WKZO Harmful algae bloom detected at Gun Lake YANKEE SPRINGS, MI — The Barry-Eaton District Health Department (BEDHD) is advising residents and visitors to use caution after a harmful algal bloom (HAB) was found…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago  (379+ words) (Corrects paragraph 3 to reflect firms are seeking to extract minerals rather than are currently extracting) GENEVA, July 9 (Reuters) – Over half of mollusc species that cluster around underwater vents and ​hold promising potential for medicine and technology are at risk ‌of…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago  (186+ words) LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – Adopt-A-Highway volunteers will fan out across the state beginning Saturday cleaning up highway roadsides as part of Michigan’s second of three scheduled pickups this year. The summer clean-up effort runs July 11-19. The program began in…...

1+ week, 23+ hour ago  (232+ words) KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – Besieged by angry constituents, the Road Commission of Kalamazoo County offered to reduce the number of roadside trees they plan to remove by half, but that’s still not good enough for south county homeowners. The…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (678+ words) TOKYO, July 8 (Reuters) – In May, Japanese fisherman Tadasuke Nakamura noticed he had an abnormally large haul of bluefin tuna in his set net off the Pacific coast of Hakodate, on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido. Hundreds of the prized sushi…...