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Brazil fines meatpacking companies, including giant JBS, for buying illegally raised cattle

Brazil fines meatpacking companies, including giant JBS, for buying illegally raised cattle

Brasilia, BRAZIL (AP) — Brazil's environmental agency has levied $64 million in fines against 23 meatpacking companies and their suppliers for buying and selling cattle raised illegally on deforested land in the Amazon.
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Developers begin cutting trees in a Tokyo park that environmentalists want to protect

Developers begin cutting trees in a Tokyo park that environmentalists want to protect

TOKYO (AP) — Workers began cutting trees Monday in central Tokyo's Jingu Gaien park district to make way for a development project, a flashpoint for more than a year between environmentalists and real estate interests.
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Slight progress in global biodiversity protection efforts but some species decline, new reports find

Slight progress in global biodiversity protection efforts but some species decline, new reports find

CALI, Colombia (AP) — Global efforts to protect the world's plants and animals have made slight progress and some species remain in serious decline, according to two reports released Monday at a major United Nations biodiversity summit in Colombia.
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Florida works to bring back tourism to its Gulf Coast following hurricanes Helene and Milton

Florida works to bring back tourism to its Gulf Coast following hurricanes Helene and Milton

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.
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Albania stops a ship suspected of harboring massive amounts of toxic waste from docking

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania prevented Monday a ship suspected of transferring a huge amount of hazardous waste from docking at Tirana’s main port, officials said, after a watchdog group alerted authorities.
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Autonomous tech is coming to farming. What will it mean for crops and workers who harvest them?

Autonomous tech is coming to farming. What will it mean for crops and workers who harvest them?

HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — Jeremy Ford hates wasting water.
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A Philippine town in the shadow of a volcano is hit by landslides it never expected

A Philippine town in the shadow of a volcano is hit by landslides it never expected

TALISAY, Philippines (AP) — As a storm pounded his rural home, Raynaldo Dejucos asked his wife and children to stay indoors and keep safe from possible lightning strikes, slippery roads or catching a fever.
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Developers begin cutting trees in a Tokyo park that environmentalists want to protect

TOKYO (AP) — Tree-cutting began Monday in the Jingu Gaien park district of central Tokyo, a flashpoint for more than a year between environmentalists and real estate interests.
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On Navajo Nation, a push to electrify more homes on the vast reservation

On Navajo Nation, a push to electrify more homes on the vast reservation

HALCHITA, Utah (AP) — After a five-year wait, Lorraine Black and Ricky Gillis heard the rumblings of an electrical crew reach their home on the sprawling Navajo Nation.
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California’s commercial Dungeness crab season delayed again to protect whales

California’s commercial Dungeness crab season delayed again to protect whales

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The start of the commercial Dungeness crab season in California has been delayed for the seventh year in a row to protect humpback whales from becoming entangled in trap and buoy lines.
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