Tag: Climate and environment
Autonomous tech is coming to farming. What will it mean for crops and workers who harvest them?
HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- Jeremy Ford hates wasting water.As a mist of rain sprinkled the fields around him in Homestead, Florida, Ford bemoaned how...
Florida works to bring back tourism to its Gulf Coast following hurricanes Helene and Milton
Tourism officials on Florida’s Gulf Coast say one of the ways concerned people can help the area recover is to visit as tourists,...
California’s commercial Dungeness crab season delayed again to protect whales
SAN FRANCISCO -- The start of the commercial Dungeness crab season in California has been delayed for the seventh year in a row...
On Navajo Nation, a push to electrify more homes on the vast reservation
HALCHITA, Utah -- After a five-year wait, Lorraine Black and Ricky Gillis heard the rumblings of an electrical crew reach their home on...
Indonesian forests pay the price for the growing global biomass energy demand
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Enormous swathes of pristine forest are being cut down across Indonesia to supply the rapidly rising international demand for biomass...
Brazil reaches a $23 billion settlement with mining firms over a 2015 environmental disaster
SAO PAULO -- SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's federal government on Friday reached a multibillion-dollar settlement with the mining companies responsible for a...