OTTAWA (Reuters) -A Canadian air force helicopter crashed into the Ottawa River early on Tuesday, killing two armed forces members and two others on board have been recovered and are in hospital, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said. Trudeau said he spoke with Canada’s Chief of Defence Staff to express “condolences to the families and colleagues…
By Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia’s most populous state will be ready for 100% renewable energy within a decade under a A$16.5 billion ($11.20 billion) infrastructure investment plan announced by a major grid operator on Wednesday. Transgrid, privatised in 2015, will invest in batteries and other energy storage, as well as 2,500 kilometers (1,553.4 miles)…
By Joseph Ax and Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) – Canadian aircraft detected underwater noises in the North Atlantic in the search for a tourist submersible that vanished while on a voyage to the wreck of the Titanic , the U.S. Coast Guard said. The discovery on Tuesday led search teams to relocate their underwater robotic search…
(Reuters) – A Canadian aircraft detected underwater noises in the search area for a missing tourist submersible that vanished while taking passengers on a voyage to the wreck of the Titanic in deep waters off Canada’s coast, the U.S. Coast guard said. Remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) were relocated to explore the origin of the noises…
By Clark Mindock (Reuters) – A lawyer for 16 young people on Tuesday asked a Montana judge for a historic order declaring the state’s pro-fossil fuel policies violate their rights, wrapping up arguments in the first youth-led U.S. climate change lawsuit to make it to trial. Judge Kathy Seeley in Helena took the case under…
By Rodrigo Campos and Nelson Bocanegra NEW YORK (Reuters) – Colombia will continue to extract fossil fuels for “much longer” until it has other exports to replace that revenue, while considering diversifying its financing with carbon credits and green bonds, Finance Minister Ricardo Bonilla said on Tuesday. Oil and coal are the South American nation’s…
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – At least one person died and about two dozen people were injured overnight after a tornado hit central Mississippi, health authorities said. The tornado struck the town of Louin, about 70 miles east of Jackson, late on Sunday, the National Weather Service said, adding that multiple tornadoes could have hit…
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU leaders are set to call on China next week to help bring an end to the war in Ukraine, engage in global challenges, such as climate change, and rebalance its economic relations with the European Union, a senior EU official said on Tuesday. EU leaders meet for a summit in Brussels…
By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI (Reuters) – The world needs to rediscover its ability to bring peace to various trouble spots in order to curb the growing flow of refugees, the head of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday. There are 110 million displaced people around the world, up from 103 million last…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.N. has adopted the world’s first treaty to protect the high seas and preserve marine biodiversity in international waters, marking a milestone after nearly 20 years of effort, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced Monday. The adoption followed an agreement reached in March by more than 100 countries on the of…
