Hassan Rouhani Fast Facts | CNN
CNN — Here’s a look at the life of former Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Birth date: November 12, 1948 Birth…
IEA: ‘Unstoppable’ energy transition means demand for oil, gas, and coal to peak by 2030
London CNN — Global demand for oil, natural gas and coal — and the carbon pollution they generate — are…
Gaza strip: 2,000 children killed, aid group says, as doctors warn of fuel shortage
Gaza and Jerusalem CNN — Aid agencies are calling for a ceasefire in Gaza as doctors warn an Israeli blockade…
Jack Lew: Swift confirmation of new ambassador to Israel uncertain
CNN — President Joe Biden’s pick for ambassador to Israel, former Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, will face tough questions from…
Gazans run out of time as Israel issues evacuation deadline
CNN — Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been fleeing south through the battered streets of Gaza after the Israeli…
Biden to announce regional hydrogen hubs in hopes of sparking a clean-energy revolution
CNN — President Joe Biden on Friday will announce the locations of seven regional hubs to manufacture hydrogen – a…
The IMF sees greater chance of a ‘soft landing’ for the global economy
London CNN — The International Monetary Fund (IMF) sees better odds that central banks will manage to tame inflation without…
Sikkim, India floods: Search underway for 100 missing as glacial lake burst leaves 19 people dead
CNN — More than 100 people are missing in India’s northeast after heavy rain caused a glacial lake to burst,…
Britain’s PM seeks to rally his party ahead of an election they are tipped to lose
London CNN — Rishi Sunak will gather with members of his governing Conservative Party on Sunday for what is likely…
Ukraine counteroffensive: Winter is coming to Ukraine, but Kyiv is adapting its tactics
CNN — Ukraine will soon face its second winter at war, and the bold campaigns of a year ago that…
UN chief warns ‘humanity has opened the gates to hell’ as he convenes world leaders for climate summit
CNN — United Nations Secretary General António Guterres issued a stark warning as he gathered world leaders for a high-level…
Gas prices are unusually high. Here’s why you shouldn’t worry
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Post-tropical cyclone Lee knocks out power to tens of thousands as it brings fierce winds and coastal flooding to Canada
CNN — Post-tropical cyclone Lee is forecast to gradually weaken over the next couple days before moving out into the…
Hurricane Lee on track to swipe parts of New England with gusty winds, power outages and high surf
CNN — Hurricane Lee, an enormous Category 1 storm whipping strong winds across hundreds of miles, is inching closer to…
Conductor allows climate activists to address crowd at Swiss festival
CNN — A famed Russian conductor allowed climate protesters who disrupted a performance at a classical music festival in Switzerland…
US seizes nearly 1 million barrels of Iranian oil allegedly bound for China
CNN — The US government seized nearly 1 million barrels of Iranian crude oil allegedly bound for China, according to…
What’s going on with China’s shadow banking system?
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Fire breaks out at oil depot in St. Petersburg
CNN — Dozens of firefighters are working to put out a blaze that is burning at an oil depot in…
Labor Day weekend gas prices are near all-time highs
New York CNN — Drivers hitting the roads this Labor Day weekend will be greeted by historically high gas prices…
Hurricanes could drive gas prices, and inflation, higher
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India’s rice export ban could trigger a global food crisis
Harayana, India CNN — Satish Kumar sits in front of his submerged rice paddy in India’s Haryana state, looking despairingly…
Maui wildfires: FBI list shows hundreds still missing as electric company admits evidence on how blaze started may have been compromised
CNN — Hundreds of people are still listed as unaccounted for after this month’s devastating wildfires on Maui – a…
Japan to start releasing Fukushima wastewater as soon as Thursday
Tokyo CNN — Japan will begin releasing treated radioactive water from Fukushima into the ocean as early as Thursday, officials…
Ecuador votes in historic referendum that could democratize climate policy
CNN — The people of Ecuador are heading to the polls – but they’re voting for more than just a…
Hawaii delayed diverting water that could have helped Maui wildfires, letters obtained by CNN allege
CNN — A state agency delayed a water management company’s request to make more water available to fight the devastating…
Commerce Department determines five Chinese solar panel companies have been skirting US tariffs
CNN — After a more than year-long investigation, federal officials have concluded that five Chinese solar panel companies have been…
Maui wildfires: 111 dead and 1,000 possibly still missing as tensions escalate over the cause and response
CNN — The search for victims isn’t even halfway over, but the devastation wrought by Maui’s wildfires already defies imagination…
Biden urges UAW and Big Three automakers to reach deal to avoid strike
Washington DC CNN — President Joe Biden sought to ramp up pressure on the United Auto Workers union and the…
How liberals unintentionally made it harder to fight climate change
New York CNN — A bedrock federal law designed to protect the environment and empower local communities is being weaponized…
These factors are making it hard to combat the deadly Maui wildfires
CNN — The wind-whipped fires in Maui spread swiftly and created a deadly tinderbox, overwhelming residents and local officials in…
Global food prices bounce following collapse of Black Sea grain deal
London CNN — Global food prices ticked up last month after Russia pulled out of a deal to allow the safe…
International Space Station Fast Facts
CNN — Here’s a look at the International Space Station (ISS), a spacecraft built by a partnership of 16 nations:…
Typhoon Khanun: Heaviest rainfall in 140 years drenches Beijing while storm hits Japan’s Okinawa
CNN — Severe flooding in Beijing was caused by the heaviest rainfall in 140 years, according to local meteorologists, and…
Antarctica is missing an Argentina-sized amount of sea ice — and scientists are scrambling to figure out why
CNN — As the Northern Hemisphere swelters under a record-breaking summer heat wave, much further south, in the depths of…
The climate changed. Get used to it
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ExxonMobil earnings fell on sinking oil prices
New York CNN — ExxonMobil’s profit fell sharply in the second quarter on lower oil and natural gas prices, leaving…
Unprecedented ocean heat is changing the way sharks eat, breathe and behave
CNN — Sharks have been made villains in most stories, whether it’s fact or fiction. But as the planet’s climate…
Shell and TotalEnergies profits cut in half by lower oil prices
London CNN — Shell and TotalEnergies have reported a steep drop in second-quarter profits, as oil and gas prices fell…
Why are so many Western firms staying put in Russia, despite the rising risks?
London CNN — When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, a slew of Western companies left…