BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil will cut back on efforts to fight environmental crimes during the coronavirus outbreak, an official at environmental agency Ibama told Reuters, despite concerns that reduced protection could lead to a spike in deforestation. FILE PHOTO: A deforested and burnt plot is seen in Jamanxim National Forest in the Amazon, near Novo
File Photo: A screen shows the logos and trading information for defense contractor Raytheon Co, and United Technologies Corp. on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., June 17, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department has approved United Technologies Corporation’s (UTX.N) planned merger with Raytheon
(Reuters) – The Trump administration has decided to ease its enforcement of environmental regulations on polluting industries to help them cope with the impacts of the coronavirus outbreak, the Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday. FILE PHOTO: The Environmental Protection Agency headquarters is seen in Washington, D.C., U.S., January 19, 2020. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson The decision
LONDON (Reuters) – The British government will pay grants to self-employed people who have lost their livelihoods because of the coronavirus lockdown, further extending an unprecedented package of measures to prevent the economy from collapsing. A children’s playground is closed off in Verdin Park, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, Northwich, Britain,
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists have unearthed fossils of a fearsome feathered dinosaur in northwestern New Mexico that was a quick and agile predator that could chase down smaller prey or swarm larger prey in pack attacks 67 million years ago. And, judging from a telltale scar on one of its menacing sickle-shaped claws, this Cretaceous
FILE PHOTO: General view of a message on a traffic information sign next to a Ocado lorry parked in a laybuy in Hatfield as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Hatfield, Britain, March 18, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Couldridge LONDON (Reuters) – The chairman of British online supermarket Ocado (OCDO.L) said there was no
SYDNEY/CHICAGO (Reuters) – Delta Air Lines Inc and Air New Zealand Ltd said they would offer cargo charter services on passenger planes to boost revenue as the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bill to give its carriers $58 billion in aid, including payroll support. Delta Air Lines passenger planes are seen parked due to flight
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Bindi Irwin, daughter of the late ‘Crocodile Hunter’ Steve Irwin, wed on Wednesday at her family’s Australia Zoo, in an event that spurred online protest as it came just hours before a ban on ceremonies with more than two witnesses took effect. Bindi Irwin, daughter of the late Steve Irwin, poses at
NEW DELHI/BENGALURU (Reuters) – As the coronavirus pandemic pushes India into a lockdown, the call centres and IT services firms that function as the world’s back office are struggling to piece together work-from-home solutions and other business-continuity plans. Police officers stop vehicles and check their papers on a highway during 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit
LONDON (Reuters) – The world’s oldest zoo is shut to the public for the first time since World War Two as London locks down because of the coronavirus pandemic, but for the roughly 18,000 animals housed there, life must go on. FILE PHOTO: Heidi the lion is seen during the annual stocktake at ZSL London
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal court on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to conduct a full environmental review of a controversial segment of the Dakota Access Pipeline, a longstanding focal point of tribal and environmental activism. FILE PHOTO: An activist stands in front of the White House during a protest rally against the Dakota Access
(Reuters) – The United States could become the global epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization said, as the U.S. negotiators reached an agreement on a $2-trillion aid package and India announced a nationwide lockdown in the world’s second-most populous country. Commuters during rush hour in Central London, as the spread of the
(Reuters) – Russian authorities lifted a tsunami warning in the Pacific far east on Wednesday after a 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the Kuril Islands, the RIA news agency reported, citing a representative of the Sakhalin Tsunami Centre. Residents in the town of Severo-Kurilsk in Russia’s Sakhalin region had earlier been evacuated
(Reuters) – Oil and gas companies are cutting spending plans in response to the new coronavirus and a push by Saudi Arabia and Russia to ramp up output. FILE PHOTO: A long exposure image shows the movement of a crude oil pump jack in the Permian Basin in Loving County, Texas, U.S., November 23, 2019.
FILE PHOTO: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Crew Dragon astronaut capsule, lifts off on an in-flight abort test , a key milestone before flying humans in 2020 under NASA’s commercial crew program, from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. January 19, 2020. REUTERS/Joe Skipper (Reuters) – Private rocket company SpaceX
LONDON (Reuters) – The United Kingdom went into lockdown on Tuesday as the number of coronavirus deaths jumped and the government called for 250,000 volunteers for the health service, as it announced a temporary hospital would open in London with help from the military. In a TV message on Monday evening watched by more than
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