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Regulators approve North Dakota section of planned 5-state Midwest carbon dioxide pipeline, but hurdles remain elsewhere
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The city of Austin is giving a visual update on its Cap and Stitch program. The project is part of the Texas Department of Transportation's expansion of I-35. Several parks and beaches in Pinellas County are still closed, more than a month after Hurricane Milton. State and local leaders are expected to update on the recovery process, on Friday. Temperatures have been slowly dropping over the last few weeks, which means the area could have the possibility of seeing snowflakes in the air sooner than later. It's a deserted property that many of you drive by every day on Interstate 44. It's also classified as an active hazardous substance clean-up site by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, but regulators have determined it can be cleaned up to a level that will make it safe for people to live here again. The Australian Reptile Park in New South Wales is urging Sydney residents to carefully collect funnel-web spiders and their eggs so they can be used to make life-saving antivenom. Two dead oarfish have washed ashore in Southern California waters in the last few months. One was spotted in August and the other just last week. Trucking is an essential part of the economy to get goods and food to people, but it is also a significant source of polluting gases. Across northern Israel's lush, green nature reserves, the ecological toll of the war between Israel and Hezbollah militants is laid bare: wild boar hit by shrapnel, trees reduced to ashes and swathes of charred vegetation.He pointed to suffering wildlife including porcupines, snakes and wild boars injured or killed by missiles or shrapnel, as well as the destruction of ancient trees. A sure sign of fall: deer are on the move, and they are everywhere. The Missouri Department of Transportation remains busy assessing clean up when one gets struck on the roads and highways. Leonid meteors are a few years away from producing a storm that dazzles viewers once every 33 years, but they could still put on a show this weekend. On the edges of a dense forest in southern India, six women in a small garage are busy stitching cloth bags, pants, hospital gowns and office uniforms with automated sewing machines. The battery pack, made from used electric vehicle batteries, keeps their sewing machines and lights on even when the main power is off. While the group is successful, initiatives like it in India are still few and far between. Warmer weather continues into Friday ahead of our next storm system. Rain and and mountain snow will return across parts of the state Sunday and Monday. A warming trend is started Thursday with high temperatures anywhere from a couple degrees to 15° warmer than Wednesday. Temperatures in the 60s are as far north as Durango [...] Our Winter Outlook for 2024-25 is calling for above normal temperatures in Central New York along with below normal snowfall for Syracuse, specifically 85"-115" which would be our snowiest winter since the beginning of the decade. We know some of you want to look "under the hood" so to speak and get a deeper dive [...] Colder temperatures and scattered showers are moving into Southern California Friday. "We have rain in the forecast for some areas ... it's not going to create major problems but it could slow you down a little bit," KTLA Meteorologist Henry DiCarlo said. Imagery showed patches of rain falling around the region during the early morning [...] India's capital New Delhi ordered all primary schools to cease in-person classes until further notice on Thursday night due to worsening smog in the sprawling megacity. "Due to rising pollution levels, all primary schools in Delhi will be shifting to online classes, until further directions," chief minister Atishi, who goes by one name, announced on social media platform X.Schools are often shut during the worst weeks of the annual smog crisis, which also prompts numerous other disruptions acro ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center said Tropical Storm Sara formed in the Caribbean on Thursday, and long-term forecast models show it could enter the Gulf of Mexico and turn toward Florida's Gulf Coast. As of the NHC's 10 a.m. advisory, Sara was located about 205 miles east of Isla Guanaja, Honduras and 50 miles northeast of Cabo Gracias a Dios on the Nicaragua/Honduras border ... On the edge of Peru's coastal desert, a remote fishing town where a third of all residents have no running water is being transformed into a huge deep-water port to cash in on the inexorable rise of Chinese interest in resource-rich South America. The megaport of Chancay, a $1.3 billion project majority-owned by the Chinese shipping giant Cosco, is turning this outpost of bobbing fishing boats into an important node of the global economy. From the presidential palace in Lima, 60 kilometers (37 miles) south of the port inauguration ceremony, China's President Xi Jinping watched a livestream of the ribbon-cutting alongside his Peruvian counterpart, Dina Boluarte, late Thursday. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The public can make its voice heard on the new Interstate 55 bridge over the Mississippi River, replacing the current 75-year-old bridge. A public hearing was held in Memphis Wednesday evening at Central Station. There is another set for Thursday at 5 p.m. at the West Memphis Radisson Hotel. The environmental study [...] Tropical Storm Sara has formed in the Caribbean and is expected to bring life-threatening rainfall, flooding, and the potential for mudslides to parts of Central America, the National Hurricane Center said.
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