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Just keep swimming: SoCal study shows sharks, humans can share ocean peacefully

Just keep swimming: SoCal study shows sharks, humans can share ocean peacefully

LOS ANGELES (AP) — You're gonna need a bigger ... drone. That's right, “Jaws” fans.
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'Dirty deal': protesters disrupt Joe Manchin event over Mountain Valley pipeline

'Dirty deal': protesters disrupt Joe Manchin event over Mountain Valley pipeline

WASHINGTON — Protesters chanted "dirty deal" and belted out a John Denver favourite Tuesday as they disrupted moderate Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin to let him know what they think of the newly fast-tracked Mountain Valley pipeline.
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Deputy fire chief conducts grim tour of Halifax subdivisions scarred by wildfires

Deputy fire chief conducts grim tour of Halifax subdivisions scarred by wildfires

HALIFAX — The wildfire that destroyed 150 homes in suburban Halifax last week was as capricious as it was destructive, a fire official said Tuesday as he led members of the media on a tour through two scorched subdivisions.
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New Jersey utilities float solar panels on reservoir, powering water treatment plant

New Jersey utilities float solar panels on reservoir, powering water treatment plant

MILLBURN, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey's Canoe Brook Water Treatment plant produces 14 millions gallons of drinking water a day.
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Gulf's 'dead zone' forecast to be smaller than average, but still twice reduction goal

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The oxygen-depleted “dead zone” that forms each year in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana and Texas is forecast to cover about 4,155 square miles (10,761 square kilometers) this year.
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Chesapeake Bay report cites environmental justice disparities

Chesapeake Bay report cites environmental justice disparities

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A report on the Chesapeake Bay released Tuesday found strong disparities between communities in different parts of the bay's watershed in terms of health, economics and social justice concerns.
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Canadian company pleads guilty to shipping banned seal oil to US

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A Canadian company has pleaded guilty to violating federal law by illegally selling seal oil capsules to American customers.
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Research advances date for likely summer ice-free Arctic by a decade

Research advances date for likely summer ice-free Arctic by a decade

New research has moved up the time by which the Arctic Ocean is predicted to be free of summer ice.
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Report says 2.3 billion people globally use polluting fuel to cook; 675 million have no electricity

Report says 2.3 billion people globally use polluting fuel to cook; 675 million have no electricity

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Up to 2.3 billion people around the world are still using polluting fuels to cook and 675 million don't have electricity, according to a report released Tuesday by five international organizations.
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Japan earmarks $107 billion for developing hydrogen energy to cut emissions, stabilize supplies

Japan earmarks $107 billion for developing hydrogen energy to cut emissions, stabilize supplies

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s government on Tuesday adopted a revision to the country’s plans to use more hydrogen as fuel as part of the effort to reduce carbon emissions.
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