Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News

(Reuters) - Private market insured losses are expected to be between $3 billion and $5 billion due to Hurricane Idalia which struck the Big Bend region of Florida last week, the catastrophe risk model...

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said on Monday he was not worried about an auto strike and thought it will not happen. Late last month, the United Auto Workers (UAW) union said its m...

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - Africa is heating up at a faster rate than the rest of the planet and enduring more severe climate and weather disasters such as droughts, a joint U.N.-African Union r...

(Reuters) - At the African Climate Summit this week, national leaders meet to discuss how to fund the challenges posed by climate change and biodiversity loss. Deals worth hundreds of millions of doll...

By Gloria Dickie LONDON (Reuters) - Fishing grounds choked by water hyacinths. Songbird eggs gobbled up by rats. Power plant pipes clogged by zebra mussels. And electrical lines downed by brown tree s...

By Jeff Mason REHOBOTH BEACH, Delaware (Reuters) - President Joe Biden travels to Philadelphia on Monday to mark U.S. Labor Day in a political battleground state where the White House hopes his emphas...

By Antonia Cimini PARIS (Reuters) - The city of Paris plans to expand an urban cooling system that draws on water from the Seine river as it seeks to meet rising demand for air conditioning while curb...

MADRID (Reuters) - A few subway lines in Madrid and high-speed train connections with southern cities were closed on Monday morning and two men were missing after torrential rain hit central Spain. Em...

By Sudarshan Varadhan and Carman Chew SINGAPORE (Reuters) - India has stepped up the use of coal to generate electricity in a bid to stop outages caused by lower hydroelectricity output, and as an inc...

By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI (Reuters) - Africa's first climate summit kicked off in the Kenyan capital on Monday with delegates aiming to forge a common position ahead of upcoming global conferences and ...