Environment News

FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) — Visitors to the Minnesota State Fair sought relief from soaring temperatures under misters Monday while some Midwestern schools dismissed classes early or called off sports practices.

NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga (AP) — Highlighting seas that are rising at an accelerating rate, especially in the far more vulnerable Pacific island nations, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued yet another climate SOS to the world.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A federal agency plans to reassess its environmental permit for Hyundai's $7.

WINNIPEG — The Crown has stayed proceedings against Manitoba Métis Federation president David Chartrand, who was given a ticket alleging he was fishing without a licence.

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brasilia, Brazil's modernist capital, woke up the last two days to find its iconic buildings enveloped in smoky air.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ski season is still at least several months away, but the unusually cold storm that frosted West Coast mountain peaks late last week brought a hint of winter in August.

FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) — Visitors to the Minnesota State Fair sought relief from soaring temperatures under misters Monday while some Midwestern schools dismissed classes early or called off sports practices.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A federal agency plans to reassess its environmental permit for Hyundai's $7.

HONOLULU (AP) — Hone was swirling past Hawaii's main islands on Monday, after it weakened to a tropical storm the day before, and blasted the Big Island with rain.

NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga (AP) — As leaders of Pacific nations were welcomed to their annual meeting in Nuku’alofa, Tonga , on Monday, they were greeted first by torrential rain and then by an earthquake. The magnitude 6.