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JULY 7 (Reuters) — Los Angeles city officials say they don’t have enough water to irrigate all the trees in the city so they are cutting down those that are dead or dying from drought. According to the city, roughly 14,000 trees have died in the last year alone from drought. ”It’s difficult to say the specific cause of death. But the drought is a very much a very real contributing factor,” said Laura Bauernfeind, […]
(Reuters) Hundreds of thousands of tiny crabs have been washing up on Southern California beaches, marring the sandy coastline with streaks of red, as warm ocean currents carry them farther north and closer to shore than usual. The red tuna crabs have been dying in hordes on beaches from San Diego to Orange County, although some have been washed back out to sea alive. Such strandings take place periodically and are not necessarily a threat to […]
JUNE 19 (Reuters) — A white man suspected of killing nine people in a Bible-study group at a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina was arrested on Thursday (June 18) and U.S. officials are investigating the attack as a hate crime. Law enforcement officials detained alleged gunman Dylann Roof, 21, after a traffic stop in Shelby, North Carolina, about 220 miles (350 km) north of Charleston, said Shelby police chief Jeff Ledford. “At 10:43 […]
JUNE 9 (Reuters) – Argentina, Paraguay and Ecuador practice in Chile ahead of impending Copa America tournament. SHOWS: LA SERENA, CHILE (JUNE 7, 2015) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (TVN – NO ACCESS CHILE/CNN/CHILE WEBSITES) 1. VARIOUS OF PLAYERS FROM ARGENTINE NATIONAL SOCCER TEAM LEAVING PLANE UPON ARRIVAL 2. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) UNIDENTIFIED ARGENTINA FAN SAYING: “We came here representing all of Argentina and we are still waiting for the arrival of 35,000 more Argentines. I’m not sure what […]
MAY 19 – Continuous string rains resulted in a landslide that killed 52 people in Colombia. Said landslide also caused damages to infrastructure. (Colombia, South America) (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
THE Brazilian government on Tuesday (April 28) said it received with “profound consternation” the news that a Brazilian citizen had been executed in Indonesia along with eight other mostly international prisoners earlier in the day. The government also said this event compounded with the execution by firing squad of the Brazilian national Rodrigo Gularte earlier this year combined to create a “serious issue” as far as relations between Brazil and the southeast Asian country. “The Brazilian […]
BOLIVIA — Bolivian authorities on Tuesday (April 21) said they had seized more than 650 kilograms (1,400 pounds) of cocaine and arrested six suspected drug traffickers. Bolivian government minister Hugo Moldiz said the sting was an operation that lasted several months that led to the arrest of the suspects and the seizure of the drugs which he said were destined for Spain. Narcotics police officers displayed the more than 600 bricks of cocaine for journalists […]
A bus fell down a 150m cliff in Peru resulting in 24 dead and 20 wounded.
A small passenger plane crashed in northern Colombia on Wednesday (December 24), killing all six passengers and the pilot, who had warned air traffic control of a mechanical fault moments before, the website of the “El Tiempo” newspaper reported. The Cessna aircraft operated by Alas, a small regional airline, disappeared while flying theBucaramanga to Malaga route in Santander province, the newspaper’s website said, adding all seven bodies were found inside or near the plane. The […]
(Reuters) – A magnitude 6.2 quake struck Mexico on Tuesday in the Gulf of California, 75 miles (121 km) west south-west of the city of El Dorado, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said, but there were no immediate reports of damage. The quake was shallow at just 6.2 miles (10 km), and was felt inland in the city of Culiacan, the capital of the western state of Sinaloa, Culiacan emergency services spokeswoman Melva Uribe said. […]
BRASILIA Tue Sep 16, 2014 8:10pm EDT (Reuters) – President Dilma Rousseff has lost ground to her main challenger, Marina Silva, less than three weeks before Brazil’s presidential election, which will likely be decided in a close second-round runoff, a poll showed on Tuesday. The survey by the Ibope polling firm said support for Silva, a renowned environmentalist, has remained unchanged at 43 percent, but Rousseff has slipped two percentage points to 40 percent since […]
By Gerardo Esquerre CABO SAN LUCAS Mexico Mon Sep 15, 2014 11:32pm EDT (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Odile ground its way up Mexico’s Baja California peninsula on Monday, gradually losing strength after forcing the evacuation of thousands and smashing shops open to looters in the popular tourist area. The government said it would use military and commercial planes to airlift stranded tourists after the peninsula’s two major airports were closed on Sunday due to one […]
