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Calgary Stampede rodeo safety to include shaded pens, heart monitors for horses

Calgary Stampede rodeo safety to include shaded pens, heart monitors for horses

CALGARY — Tents are being set up to provide shade for bulls and broncs and some chuckwagon horses are to be fitted with tiny electrocardiograms at the upcoming Calgary Stampede.
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The emotional toll of climate change is broad-ranging, especially for young people

The emotional toll of climate change is broad-ranging, especially for young people

NEW YORK (AP) — Anxiety, grief, anger, fear, helplessness. The emotional toll of climate change is broad-ranging, especially for young people.
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Switzerland's ebbing glaciers show a new, strange phenomenon: holes reminiscent of Swiss cheese

Switzerland's ebbing glaciers show a new, strange phenomenon: holes reminiscent of Swiss cheese

RHONE GLACIER, Switzerland (AP) — Climate change appears to be making some of Switzerland's vaunted glaciers look like Swiss cheese: full of holes.
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Federal judge orders Trump administration to release EV charger funding in 14 states

Federal judge orders Trump administration to release EV charger funding in 14 states

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to release billions of dollars in funding for the build out of electric vehicle chargers in more than a dozen states. U.S.
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Governors of Western states give mixed reactions to proposed federal land sell-off

Governors of Western states give mixed reactions to proposed federal land sell-off

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A Republican-sponsored proposal before Congress to mandate the sale of federal public lands received a mixed reception Monday from the governors of Western states. A budget proposal from Utah Republican Sen.
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Players and fans at the Club World Cup are coping with high temperatures as a heat wave hits US

Players and fans at the Club World Cup are coping with high temperatures as a heat wave hits US

Substitutes who watch from the locker room, abandoned practice sessions and sweat-soaked jerseys. A heat wave hitting a wide swath of the country is taking a toll on players at the FIFA Club World Cup .
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4 family members celebrating a birthday are among 8 dead from a boat capsize on Lake Tahoe

4 family members celebrating a birthday are among 8 dead from a boat capsize on Lake Tahoe

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Four members of a family from Northern California who were celebrating a birthday were among eight people killed when a boat capsized on Lake Tahoe in California over the weekend during a sudden and fierce thunderstorm in one of
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Temperature in New York City reaches 100 degrees as eastern US swelters under extreme heat wave

Temperature in New York City reaches 100 degrees as eastern US swelters under extreme heat wave

NEW YORK (AP) — Extensive triple digit heat , broken temperature records and oppressive humidity piled up into a steaming mess as the heat dome crushing the Eastern half of the nation sizzled to what should be its worst Tuesday.
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Colombian waste pickers inundate iconic Bogota square with plastic bottles to protest falling wages

Colombian waste pickers inundate iconic Bogota square with plastic bottles to protest falling wages

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Dozens of Colombian waste pickers inundated Bogota’s iconic Bolivar Square with about 15 tons of recyclable goods Tuesday to protest decreasing income and tougher conditions for scavengers.
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GOP plan to sell more than 3,200 square miles of federal lands is found to violate Senate rules

GOP plan to sell more than 3,200 square miles of federal lands is found to violate Senate rules

WASHINGTON (AP) — A plan to sell more than 3,200 square miles of federal lands has been ruled out of Republicans’ big tax and spending cut bill after the Senate parliamentarian determined the proposal by Senate Energy Chairman Mike Lee would violate
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