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Vietnamese automaker VinFast to start selling EVs in Thailand

Vietnamese automaker VinFast to start selling EVs in Thailand

BANGKOK (AP) — Vietnamese automaker VinFast announced Tuesday that it plans to sell its electric vehicles in Thailand and said it had tied up with auto dealers to open showrooms in the country.
Wind and sun are free, but it's harder to get renewable energy projects built these days. Here's why

Wind and sun are free, but it's harder to get renewable energy projects built these days. Here's why

SPRAKEBUELL, Germany (AP) — The wind gusting across north German farm country brings much to the village of Sprakebuell: fog and rain from the sea, the occasional migrating stork, the faint smell of manure in the newly fertilized fields.
Here are the big hurdles to the global push to build up renewable energy

Here are the big hurdles to the global push to build up renewable energy

The world's governments have agreed they want to triple renewable energy by 2030, a goal laid out at the U.N. climate summit in December.
UK farmers in tractors head to Parliament to protest rules they say threaten livelihoods

UK farmers in tractors head to Parliament to protest rules they say threaten livelihoods

LONDON (AP) — Farmers drove dozens of tractors in a slow-motion convoy towards Britain’s Parliament on Monday to protest post- Brexit rules and trade deals that they say are endangering livelihoods and food security.
National monument on California-Oregon border will remain intact after surviving legal challenge

National monument on California-Oregon border will remain intact after surviving legal challenge

ASHLAND, Oregon (AP) — The Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, a remote expanse of wilderness along the California-Oregon border, will not lose any of its acreage after the U.S.
How EU deforestation laws are reordering the world of coffee

How EU deforestation laws are reordering the world of coffee

BUON MA THUOT, Vietnam (AP) — Le Van Tam is no stranger to how the vagaries of global trade can determine the fortunes of small coffee farmers like him.
Time of essence amid efforts to reunite orphaned B.C. orca calf with its pod

Time of essence amid efforts to reunite orphaned B.C. orca calf with its pod

ZEBALLOS, B.C. — Intense efforts are underway to reunite an orca calf with its family pod after its mother was stranded and died in a tidal lagoon near the remote northern Vancouver Island village of Zeballos.

New York City owl Flaco was exposed to pigeon virus and rat poison before death, tests show

New York City’s celebrity owl Flaco was suffering from a severe pigeon-borne illness and high levels of rat poison when he crashed into a building and died last month, officials at the Bronx Zoo said Monday.
Spring storm lashes central US with snow and threatens South with severe weather

Spring storm lashes central US with snow and threatens South with severe weather

BOSTON — Snow, rain and gusting winds lashed a large swath of the Central U.S. on Monday, dashing spring hopes, as the South braced for thunderstorms and possible tornadoes and as the risk of wildfires in southern Texas reached critical levels.
Aluminum company says preferred site for new smelter is a region of Kentucky hit hard by job losses

Aluminum company says preferred site for new smelter is a region of Kentucky hit hard by job losses

FRANKFORT, Ky.