By Brad Brooks (Reuters) – Atlanta’s city council on Tuesday approved funding for a new law enforcement training center that protesters have fought for years due to concerns about heavy-handed policing and the environment, at times engaging in deadly clashes with police. The city council approved building the $90 million Atlanta Public Safety Training Center…
By Viktoriia Lakezina KHERSON, Ukraine (Reuters) – Hundreds of people were evacuated from settlements along the southern stretch of Ukraine’s Dnipro river on Tuesday after water burst through the breached Nova Kakhovka dam, submerging streets, homes and town squares further downstream. The collapse of the barrier at the southern tip of the vast Kakhovka reservoir…
By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -A huge Soviet-era dam on the Dnipro River that separates Russian and Ukrainian forces in southern Ukraine was breached on Tuesday, unleashing floodwaters across the war zone. Ukraine said Russia had destroyed it, while Russia said Ukraine sabotaged it to cut off water supplies to Crimea and distract attention from…
By Stephanie van den Berg and Anthony Deutsch THE HAGUE (Reuters) – The Geneva Conventions and its protocols explicitly ban war-time attacks on “installations containing dangerous forces” such as dams due to the risk posed to civilians, a prohibition likely to come into focus after the destruction of a huge Ukrainian dam. Ukraine accused Russia…
By Andrew Osborn (Reuters) -A gaping hole punched in Ukraine’s Nova Kakhovka dam that unleashed a wall of floodwater means that the canal which has traditionally met most of Crimea’s water needs is receiving drastically less water, the Kremlin warned on Tuesday. Russia and Ukraine have blamed each other for the breach at the Russian-controlled…
By Maytaal Angel LONDON (Reuters) – Nestle is piloting a scheme to give cash to coffee farmers who grow beans sustainably as part of its plan to halve greenhouse gas emissions in its coffee business by 2030, the food company said on Tuesday. The move comes as major consumer goods companies face increased reputational and…
(Reuters) – Flooding from torrential rains in Haiti has left at least 42 people dead over the past couple days and dozens more missing and injured, officials said on Monday. Over 13,600 homes are also listed as flooded. The civil protection agency said on Twitter on Monday the death toll had risen since Sunday night…
By Riham Alkousaa BERLIN (Reuters) – United Nations climate talks in Germany kicked off on Monday without an agreed final agenda for technical discussions, a senior negotiator said, clouding optimism that the 10-day meeting would result in a clear programme for the COP28 conference in Dubai. The Bonn Climate Change Conference, designed to prepare decisions…
KYIV (Reuters) – The destruction of the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine poses a threat to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, but the situation at the facility is under control, Ukraine’s state atomic power agency said on Tuesday. The U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, said on Twitter it was closely monitoring the…
By Sarah McFarlane and Valerie Volcovici LONDON (Reuters) – The war in Ukraine is deepening the climate crisis at time when global greenhouse gas emissions are already running at a record high, according to report by carbon accounting experts who have tallied the overall impact of the conflict. The report, which is due to be…
