By REUTERS
A judge in Louisiana who halted development of a section of Energy Transfer Partners’ Bayou Bridge oil pipeline last week said on Tuesday that her decision was designed to prevent “further irreparable harm” to wetlands.
Published: February 28, 2018 at 03:03PM
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By DAVID LEONHARDT
Faith is correlated with better health and higher incomes. How should a secular liberal think about these patterns?
Published: February 28, 2018 at 08:26AM
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By REUTERS
Gaza is a coastal strip of land that lay on ancient trading and maritime routes along the Mediterranean shore. Held by the Ottoman Empire until 1917, it passed from British to Egyptian to Israeli military rule over the last century and is now a fe…
Published: February 28, 2018 at 07:22AM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
An autopsy has determined a fisherman drowned after he went missing during a tournament on Florida’s Lake Okeechobee.
Published: February 27, 2018 at 03:42PM
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By ADAM ZAGORIA
The Big Ten moved its postseason tournament up by a week in order to be in New York City, but that may set up an uneasy wait for Selection Sunday.
Published: February 27, 2018 at 03:25PM
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By JESSE McKINLEY and VIVIAN WANG
Prosecutors say that Joseph Percoco, once one of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top aides, traded his influence in Albany for bribes, which he code-named ‘ziti.’
Published: February 27, 2018 at 12:04PM
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By REUTERS
Two people were found dead in Romania as snow and sub-zero temperatures across much of Europe saw flights cancelled, road and rail transport disrupted and schools closed on Tuesday.
Published: February 27, 2018 at 07:45AM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The European Union’s top court says a fisheries agreement the bloc has concluded with Morocco can’t include the waters off the disputed territory of Western Sahara.
Published: February 27, 2018 at 08:27AM
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By JADA YUAN
The Alabama city has a complicated history, heavy with racial tensions. But it’s also a powerful place, and a friendly one for travelers.
Published: February 27, 2018 at 05:01AM
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By SOMINI SENGUPTA
A project near a world heritage site in Kenya embodies a contradiction of Chinese climate leadership: Cutting coal use at home while promoting it abroad.
Published: February 27, 2018 at 05:01AM
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By REUTERS
China has the world’s largest and farthest-ranging fishing operation, outstripping the next 10 biggest combined, according to what researchers say is the most comprehensive and data-intensive study on the subject.
Published: February 26, 2018 at 07:07PM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wine lovers, listen up: There’s a little-known gem just south of the border called Valle de Guadalupe.
Published: February 26, 2018 at 12:19PM
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By REUTERS
Britain’s government said on Monday that it expected to reach an agreement with the United Kingdom’s devolved nations on how power will be shared after Brexit, but its latest proposal to unlock a political impasse fell flat in Scotland.
Published: February 26, 2018 at 12:42PM
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By KAREN WEINTRAUB
A new study projects that slightly more than two-thirds of the species could be threatened, as they swim farther and farther to find food.
Published: February 26, 2018 at 11:15AM
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By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-MCLAY
Questions by a “smitten” interviewer for “60 Minutes” in Australia startled Jacinda Ardern and outraged many viewers.
Published: February 26, 2018 at 06:39AM
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By RATHA TEP
The vast coastal county of Cornwall, England, had a profound effect on the future writing of the impressionable young girl who would become a literary star.
Published: February 26, 2018 at 05:00AM
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By MARGARET RENKL
It’s hard to know what to do when age brings a faithful companion so much fear and suffering.
Published: February 25, 2018 at 08:05PM
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By MARGARET RENKL
It’s hard to know what to do when age brings a faithful companion so much fear and suffering.
Published: February 25, 2018 at 08:05PM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Argentina’s coast guard says it has opened fire on a Chinese vessel illegally fishing in its waters.
Published: February 25, 2018 at 12:36PM
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By REUTERS
A Palestinian from the Gaza Strip died on Sunday after the Israeli navy fired on the boat he and two others were sailing in, a military spokeswoman said.
Published: February 25, 2018 at 12:30PM
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By KIRK SEMPLE
For decades, a poor fishing village has tried to stop a state-run refinery from polluting a bay they share, but the battle has increasingly become one man’s charge.
Published: February 25, 2018 at 11:59AM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Israeli military says it has opened fire on a Palestinian boat off the Gaza coast, killing one man who was on board.
Published: February 25, 2018 at 11:06AM
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By TRISTAN BAURICK
A pest known as a scale appears to be killing off reeds that bind the state’s coast together, speeding land loss and endangering oil wells, shipping routes and fishing grounds.
Published: February 24, 2018 at 04:30AM
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By KEVIN SACK and JOHN SCHWARTZ
For the community of Jean Lafitte, the question is less whether it will succumb to the sea than when — and how much the public should invest in artificially extending its life.
Published: February 24, 2018 at 04:30AM
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By JOHN SCHWARTZ and MARK SCHLEIFSTEIN
In the years after Hurricane Katrina, over 350 miles of levees, flood walls, gates and pumps came to encircle greater New Orleans. Experts say that is not enough.
Published: February 24, 2018 at 04:30AM
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By REUTERS
Standard Life Aberdeen revealed on Friday its co-chief executive Keith Skeoch’s total pay rose by nine percent to 3 million pounds ($4.2 million) in 2017.
Published: February 23, 2018 at 02:24AM
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By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
On remote islands off the coast of Maine, small bands of residents stay through the long winter. They embrace the emptiness and a frontier sensibility.
Published: February 23, 2018 at 05:01AM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
With deep blue waters, white sand beaches and rich marine life, the tiny island nation of the Seychelles is announcing a pioneering marine conservation plan as part of a debt swap deal with creditors.
Published: February 23, 2018 at 03:27AM
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By NEIL GENZLINGER
His work as one of “Nader’s raiders” helped bring about the Clean Water Act of 1972, and he helped found the advocacy group Clean Water Action.
Published: February 22, 2018 at 06:17PM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: February 22, 2018 at 05:27PM
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By REUTERS
China has the world’s largest and farthest-ranging fishing operation, outstripping the next 10 biggest combined, according to what researchers say is the most comprehensive and data-intensive study on the subject.
Published: February 22, 2018 at 02:09PM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Scientists tag sharks to see where they roam in the high seas, but until now they couldn’t track the seas’ biggest eater: Humans.
Published: February 22, 2018 at 02:07PM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
With deep blue waters, white sand beaches and rich marine life, the tiny island nation of the Seychelles is announcing a pioneering marine conservation plan as part of a debt swap deal with creditors.
Published: February 22, 2018 at 01:33PM
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By REUTERS
Scotland said on Thursday progress was being made toward a deal to ensure that all devolved powers transfer back to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland after Brexit.
Published: February 22, 2018 at 09:16AM
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By REUTERS
The island nation of Seychelles designated some of its fragile coastal areas for protection from commercial fishing, oil exploration and development this week in return for a novel deal relieving it of part of its sovereign debt.
Published: February 22, 2018 at 08:03AM
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By REUTERS
A Singapore church official convicted in a multimillion-dollar fraud case was charged again in court on Thursday after trying to flee the city-state on a boat a day before he was to begin serving a reduced jail sentence.
Published: February 22, 2018 at 03:31AM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Environmental activists, business groups and a retired U.S. Navy admiral in Virginia have blasted the Trump Administration’s offshore drilling plan.
Published: February 21, 2018 at 08:18PM
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By REUTERS
Britain’s government has made a “considerable offer” to ensure all devolved powers transfer back to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland after Brexit, it said on Thursday, but a Scottish minister said it was not enough.
Published: February 21, 2018 at 07:21PM
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By JENNIFER MOSES
In southern Louisiana, where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico, the land is barely land at all, but rather, mere fingers of earth, marsh and mist.
Published: February 21, 2018 at 05:00AM
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By LIVIA ALBECK-RIPKA
More Americans than ever say that climate change is mainly caused by human activity. We talked to six people about what changed their minds.
Published: February 21, 2018 at 05:00AM
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By VIVIAN WANG
Prosecutors’ latest examples of a sprawling Albany corruption scheme have turned to science fairs, library trips and a teacher’s performance review.
Published: February 20, 2018 at 05:04PM
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By SAMUEL COLLARDEY
Coming of age on the Greenland tundra.
Published: February 20, 2018 at 03:31PM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Opponents of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada are asking a judge to force the U.S. government to turn over emails and other documents related to President Donald Trump’s approval of the project.
Published: February 20, 2018 at 02:10PM
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By CHARLES McDERMID
Here’s what you need to know to start your day.
Published: February 20, 2018 at 02:08PM
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By Unknown Author
A hotel that moves with the seasons, logo tees on the runway — and more.
Published: February 20, 2018 at 10:47AM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are urging New England lobstermen to begin using new technology to help prevent the deaths of rare right whales.
Published: February 20, 2018 at 08:39AM
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By REUTERS
Indonesia seized a record 1.6 tonnes of crystal methamphetamine from a ship off the northern island of Batam on Tuesday, a narcotics official said, the second major drug bust this month.
Published: February 20, 2018 at 08:09AM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The head of Latvia’s central bank says he will not resign following an investigation into suspected bribery and an Associated Press report on allegations that he sought bribes from a local bank.
Published: February 20, 2018 at 06:10AM
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By JADA YUAN
Despite some transformative growing pains, the city may well be one of the most pleasant and livable ones in the United States.
Published: February 20, 2018 at 05:00AM
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