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Coral reefs in Vietnam face collapse. Can conservation efforts turn the tide?

Coral reefs in Vietnam face collapse. Can conservation efforts turn the tide?

NHA TRANG, Vietnam (AP) — The gentle waves off the coast of central Vietnam's Nha Trang obscure an open secret: The life-giving coral reefs below are dying. The waters are eerily devoid of fish. The bounty of the ocean is coming to an end.
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Trump administration to drop lawsuit against Louisiana petrochemical plant, AP sources say

Trump administration to drop lawsuit against Louisiana petrochemical plant, AP sources say

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration plans to drop a federal lawsuit against a synthetic rubber manufacturer accused of worsening cancer risks for residents in a majority-Black community near its Louisiana plant, two sources fami
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North Carolina lawmakers close in on another injection of Helene relief funds

North Carolina lawmakers close in on another injection of Helene relief funds

RALEIGH, N.C.
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Trump wants to use the 'God Squad' to increase logging, but it must follow strict rules

Trump wants to use the 'God Squad' to increase logging, but it must follow strict rules

President Donald Trump wants to increase logging in national forests and on public lands, including by bypassing endangered species protections.
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'Retaliatory pipelines': Push to export crude away from U.S. intensify amid tariffs

CALGARY — The push for Canada to send more of its oil and natural gas to markets outside of the United States intensified Tuesday as U.S. President Donald Trump pressed ahead with a 10 per cent levy on energy imports.
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More endangered Mexican gray wolves are roaming the southwestern US, annual survey shows

More endangered Mexican gray wolves are roaming the southwestern US, annual survey shows

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.
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Disrupting the Peace: On a B.C. ranch, fracking earthquakes rattle a way of life

Disrupting the Peace: On a B.C. ranch, fracking earthquakes rattle a way of life

Bo Hedges' parents have lived on their ranch north of Fort St. John, B.C., for close to 50 years, running the Dead Horse Creek Cattle Company on the property where a natural spring bubbles up near their log home.
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Firings at US weather and oceans agency risk lives and economy, former agency heads warn

Firings at US weather and oceans agency risk lives and economy, former agency heads warn

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal weather and oceans agency touches people's daily lives in unnoticed ways, so massive firings there will likely cause needless deaths and a big hit to America's economy, according to the people who ran it.
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$75 million was awarded to plant trees in places that badly need them. In anti-DEI push, that's over

$75 million was awarded to plant trees in places that badly need them. In anti-DEI push, that's over

Arthur Johnson has lived in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward for nearly three decades, long enough to appreciate the trees that filter pollution from the big ships traveling the nearby Mississippi River and that offer shade on sweltering summer days.
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The endangered Florida panther faces the dual threats of urban sprawl and increased traffic

The endangered Florida panther faces the dual threats of urban sprawl and increased traffic

FLORIDA PANTHER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Fla. (AP) — In January, an endangered Florida panther known as UCFP479 became the first to die this year in a vehicle collision along a rural southwestern Florida road.
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