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The problem with leaf blowers, and what you can do instead 04/23/2024 10:23am • When I was a kid, I used to help my mother clear leaves the old-fashioned way — with a rake. These days, I don’t see many rakes in my neighborhood. It seems everyone has a leaf blower or a landscaper who uses one, often at ungodly hours, which disrupts humans as well as wildlife. The near-const Writer Leonardo Padura chronicles life in Cuba as his detective 'alter ego' solves gripping crimes 04/23/2024 01:15am • HAVANA (AP) — His novels recount gruesome murders, thefts, scams, bribes and humiliating secrets. But those are not even the most important themes in the stories told by award-winning Cuban writer Leonardo Padura. For the last four decades, Padura, 68, has managed to turn his series of detective t US advances review of Nevada lithium mine amid concerns over endangered wildflower 04/23/2024 12:06am • RENO, Nev. (AP) — The Biden administration has taken a significant step in its expedited environmental review of what could become the third lithium mine in the U.S., amid anticipated legal challenges from conservationists over the threat they say it poses to an endangered Nevada wildflower. The B In Vietnam, farmers reduce methane emissions by changing how they grow rice 04/22/2024 10:14pm • LONG AN, Vietnam (AP) — There is one thing that distinguishes 60-year-old Vo Van Van’s rice fields from a mosaic of thousands of other emerald fields across Long An province in southern Vietnam’s Mekong Delta: It isn’t entirely flooded. That and the giant drone, its wingspan similar to that California announces first new state park in a decade and sets climate goals for natural lands 04/22/2024 09:14pm • MODESTO, Calif. (AP) — California will open its first new state park in a decade this summer, Gov. Gavin Newsom and state officials announced Monday, as the state sets targets for cutting planet-warming emissions on natural lands. The 1,600-acre (648-hectare) Dos Rios tract in the state's crop-ri 7 Best Electric Vehicle ETFs to Buy 04/22/2024 08:00pm • Electric vehicles, or EVs, are once again capturing the attention of investors this year, but the sentiment is not as optimistic as it once was. The current controversy revolves around Tesla Inc. (ticker: TSLA), a titan in the EV industry. Tesla has experienced a significant downturn in 2024, and it 5 Top Options for Affordable Retirement in Europe 04/22/2024 08:00pm • The culture and relative safety of many European cities can be appealing to American retirees, but those living on a fixed income must stretch their U.S. dollars as far as possible. Major cities such as London may check all your boxes, but the cost of living may be too high for anything more than a Earth Day's origins trace back to this Northern Virginia estate 04/22/2024 04:29pm • In 1969, a group of law and medical students gathered at a picturesque estate in Warrenton, Virginia, and heard a speech from the late Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, calling for a day in which the world paused to focus on protecting planet earth. It was that meeting that resulted in the creati Fires have consumed nearly 20,000 acres in Va. this spring. That could be good for the environment. 04/22/2024 03:23pm • A fire at The Waterfall Mountain complex west of Luray Wednesday night. (Courtesy Peter Forister Photography) Almost 20,000 acres have been lit by flames that primarily torched the western and central parts of the state so far during Virginia’s 2024 spring fire season. With about a week left u Tennessee's GOP governor says Volkswagen plant workers made a mistake in union vote 04/22/2024 03:14pm • GALLATIN, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Lee said Monday that he thinks workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga made a mistake by voting to unionize under the United Auto Workers in a landslide election but acknowledged the choice was ultimately up to them. Ahead of the vote, Lee Delta Air Lines, facing another union attempt to organize flight attendants, is raising their pay 04/22/2024 12:16pm • Delta Air Lines, the most profitable U.S. carrier, is raising pay for nonunion employees as it gets ready for another attempt by a union to represent its flights attendants. CEO Ed Bastian told Delta employees Monday that the airline will boost pay for flight attendants and ground workers by 5%, rai How to Create an Eco-Friendly Lawn That Won't Drive Your Neighbors Wild 04/21/2024 08:00pm • Lawn tastes have changed over the years. There was a time that if your lawn hadn't been mowed in a while, you might be considered lazy. Now, people may just think you have an eco-friendly yard. As climate change continues to cause extreme storms and affect everything from air pollution to agricultur Israeli strikes on southern Gaza city of Rafah kill 22, mostly children, as US advances aid package 04/21/2024 07:15pm • RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight killed 22 people, including 18 children, health officials said Sunday, as the United States was on track to approve billions of dollars of additional military aid to Israel, its close ally. Israel has carried out Climate advocates want to solve their 'biggest problem' in the US: Turning out voters 04/21/2024 04:45pm • ABC News In battleground states across the country, environmental activists like Dr. Emily Church are canvassing on behalf of an organization called the Environmental Voter Project in an effort to turn out people who care the most about climate change — but who haven't shown up for past elec Crush of lawsuits over voting in multiple states creates a shadow war for the 2024 election 04/21/2024 09:48am • CHICAGO (AP) — As President Joe Biden and Donald Trump step up their campaigning in swing states, a quieter battle is taking place in the shadows of their White House rematch. The Republican National Committee, newly reconstituted under Trump, has filed election-related lawsuits in nearly half the