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Tropical Storm Pilar heads toward El Salvador and is expected to bring heavy rain to Central America

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Tropical Storm Pilar threatened to bring heavy rain and flash flooding to El Salvador and other parts of Central America as it sat just off the Pacific coast Monday. The U.S.

Oct 30, 2023 2:38 PM Read more >

Spooky harvest: Droughts, heavy rain create challenge for Canada's pumpkin season

FREDERICTON — Extreme weather caused by climate change — droughts followed by heavy rains — wreaked havoc with the pumpkin harvest across Canada this year. Nova Scotia pumpkin farmer Danny Dill said the spring planting season was extremely dry.

Oct 30, 2023 2:37 PM Read more >

Canadian Solar to build $800 million solar panel factory in southeastern Indiana, employ about 1,200

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Ontario-based Canadian Solar Inc. will build an $800 million solar panel factory in southeastern Indiana that will employ about 1,200 workers once production is fully ramped up, the company said Monday.

Oct 30, 2023 11:42 AM Read more >

In early 2029, Earth will likely lock into breaching key warming threshold, scientists calculate

In a little more than five years – sometime in early 2029 – the world will likely be unable to stay below the internationally agreed temperature limit for global warming if it continues to burn fossil fuels at its current rate, a new study says.

Oct 30, 2023 10:01 AM Read more >

Calgary lifts its outdoor water restrictions as cold weather expected to reduce use

CALGARY — The City of Calgary says it is lifting its outdoor water restrictions, but it's still asking residents to use water wisely. Officials say the restrictions, which have been in effect for two months, will be removed Tuesday.

Oct 30, 2023 9:31 AM Read more >

A ferry that ran aground repeatedly off the Swedish coast is leaking oil and is extensively damaged

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A ferry that ran aground off southeastern Sweden was leaking oil into the Baltic Sea and suffered “extensive damage,” a spokesman for the Swedish Coast Guard said Monday. On Oct.

Oct 30, 2023 9:23 AM Read more >

Takeaways from the AP's investigation into aging oil ships

OKITIPUPA, NIGERIA (AP) — Until early last year, a rusting oil ship named the Trinity Spirit floated off the coast of Nigeria, pulling crude oil from the ocean floor.

Oct 30, 2023 7:05 AM Read more >

Deadly explosion off Nigeria points to threat posed by aging oil ships around the world

OKITIPUPA, Nigeria (AP) — It was the dead of night when the ship caught fire, Patrick Aganyebi remembers, but the flames made it seem as bright as day. The explosion that night woke him and knocked him to the floor.

Oct 30, 2023 7:02 AM Read more >

How extreme weather in the US may have affected the pumpkins you picked this year for Halloween

HUDSON, Colo. (AP) — Alan Mazzotti can see the Rocky Mountains about 30 miles west of his pumpkin patch in northeast Colorado on a clear day.

Oct 30, 2023 12:59 AM Read more >

Hurricane Otis death toll rises to 48, missing now number 36 as search and recovery work continues

ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — At least 48 people died when Category 5 Hurricane Otis slammed into Mexico’s southern Pacific coast, most of them in Acapulco, Mexican authorities said Sunday as the death toll continued to climb and families buried loved ones

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